Description: Railroad steam locomotives crash into each other. Glass plate negatives of various Trumbull County and northeastern Ohio scenes, places, people and events taken by John E. Pickering and Edward D. Pickering from the 1880s to the 1910s. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08476
Subjects: Ohio Economy--Transportation and Development; Railroad accidents; Railroad locomotives
 

Description: Two 8" x 10" (20.32 x 25.4 cm) photographs document train engines under construction at Lima Locomotive Works in Lima, Ohio. Lima Locomotive Works began in 1869 when a group of men from Upper Sandusky purchased the Lima Agricultural Company, renamed it the Lima Machine Works, and began making sawmill machinery, stationary steam engines, boilers, jig saws, lathes, and agricultural equipment. In 1878, it expanded its operations to include the production of locomotives. The company, which employed 4,000 workers in its peak production years during World War II, was the third-largest producer of locomotives in the country. The "Cadillac of steam-locomotive builders," as the company was known, also manufactured cranes, draglines, and shovels. As the company grew, its name evolved to Lima Locomotive and Machine Company (1892), Lima Locomotive Corporation (1912), and finally Lima Locomotive Works, Incorporated (1916). After World War II, the company suffered from the lagging sales. Its merger with Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1950 could not save the company. The last locomotive was produced in Lima in 1951. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om3191_3805971_001
Subjects: Transportation; Business and Labor; Construction; Factories; Railroads; Railroad locomotives
Places: Lima (Ohio); Allen County (Ohio)
 

Description: Pennsylvania #9, 4-4-2 steam locomotive, most likely at the Upper Sandusky depot. Locomotives are classified by wheel arrangement. 4-4-2 represents a configuration of four leading wheels on two axles, and is commonly known as the Atlantic or Milwaukee type. The Pennsylvania Railroad was founded in 1846 and went on to become one of the largest railroads in US history. Photograph by Harry Evan Kinley (1882-1969), a native of Upper Sandusky. Kinley was active in local events and organizations, and spent his professional career as a clerk at his father's department store, and later as a travelling salesman for the Marion Paper & Supply Company (1934-1962). He was also an avid lifelong photographer, and the bulk of the Harry Kinley Collection is comprised of glass plate negatives documenting the Kinley family, the city of Upper Sandusky and Wyandot County and surrounding areas. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07784
Subjects: Ohio Economy--Transportation and Development; Railroad locomotives; Railroads--Ohio; Photographers--Ohio; Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Cultural Ohio--Art and Artists
Places: Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Wyandot County (Ohio)