Description: Reverse reads: "Lima Rail Yards. Lima." This is most likely the Lima Locomotive Works, which was located at South Main Street and Nickel Plate Railroad crossing. The company manufactured all types of railroad locomotives 1870s through the 1950s. The company is best known for producing the Shay geared logging steam locomotive and for being the home of William E. Woodard's "Super Power" advanced steam locomotive concept - exemplified by the prototype 2-8-4 Berkshire, Lima demonstrator A-1. The plant, covering nearly 60 acres, was one of the three largest of its kind in the United States. The largest and most interesting building is the shop in which the engines are assembled. In 1947, the firm merged with General Machinery Corporation of Hamilton, Ohio, to form Lima-Hamilton. From 1949 to 1951 Lima-Hamilton produced a total of 174 Diesel Locomotives, in 6 different models. In 1951, Lima-Hamilton merged with Baldwin Locomotive Works to form Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton (BLH). The Lima-Hamilton line of Diesels was discontinued, in favor of Baldwin's existing line. Though Lima and Baldwin had been known for high-quality steam locomotives, their line of diesel-electric locomotives was unable to compete with EMD, Alco, and GE. BLH left the locomotive business in 1956. For a time, Clark Equipment Company manufactured Lima-brand construction cranes in the old plant. Most of the company's records and builder's drawings are now housed in the California State Railroad Museum's library in Sacramento, California. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F03_021_001
Subjects: Industries--Ohio; Locomotives--Ohio; Steam locomotives--United States; Diesel locomotives--United States; Lima Locomotive Works, Incorporated; Lima-Hamilton Corporation; Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corporation; Clark Equipment Company; Woodward, W. E. (William E.), 1874-1950
Places: Lima (Ohio); Allen County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption on reverse reads: "Track One. Big Four Station." The locomotive steam engine in this photograph bears the number 4861. The train is pulling cars bearing the name "New York Central." More information is needed as to the exact type of steam engine. This photograph shows the CCC & St. L (Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus & St. Louis) passenger station in Springfield, Ohio. It was built in 1910, on Union Street, between Fountain and Limestone continued operation until 1953. This building replaced an older "Union Station" which was on Washington Street, between Fountain and Limestone. It was demolished in the 1970s to make room for the Spring Street Bridge and additional parking for Clark County College. The main part of the structure is a grand, square, stone building with a peaked tile roof and a large rounded window taking up almost the entire front facade of the building. The adjacent 2-story building has a tiled French Mansard style roof. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F14_001_1
Subjects: Transportation--Ohio; Locomotives--Ohio; Steam locomotives--United States; Rail stations; Train stations; Cleveland, Columbus & Cincinnati Rail Road
Places: Springfield (Ohio); Clark County (Ohio)
 

Description: 40-ton haulage locomotives made by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio in use at the Consolidation Coal Company, Acosta, Pennsylvania, 1934. Haulage locomotives were used to move long trains of cars. The top speed of these locomotives was about 5 miles per hour. Power was supplied from an overhead electrical cable and trolley pickup arm on the locomotive. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01542
Subjects: Locomotives; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Acosta (Pennsylvania)
 

Description: 20-ton haulage locomotives made by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio in use at the Cannelton Coal and Coke Company, Cannelton, West Virginia, 1948. When more power was needed locomotives could be attached together and run in tandem, as seen in this photograph. Haulage locomotives were used to pull long trains of cars, called "trips", from mines. A trolley arm extended from the locomotive to an overhead electrical cable to provide power. Electric locomotives could travel approximately 5 miles per hour. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01589
Subjects: Locomotives; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Cannelton (West Virginia)
 

Description: 8-ton gathering locomotives made by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio in use at W. J. Rainey, Incorporated, Frederick, Pennsylvania, 1929. Gathering locomotives gathered the coal cars from various working places in the mine and made up the long trains for the haulage locomotives to pull out of the mine. Overhead electrical cables supplied power to the locomotives by way of trolley arm pickups. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01518
Subjects: Locomotives; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Fredericktown (Pennsylvania)
 

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)
 

Description: This photograph shows a locomotive engine that ran on the Big Four Railroad, with a note on the reverse which reads "BIG FOUR ENGINE #7514 S. Pruegfred[?]." The Big Four Railroad was also referred to as the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis Railway. On June 30, 1889, the consolidation of three major railway companies which serviced the American Midwest, formed the Big Four Railroad. In 1890, the Big Four Railway absorbed the Indiana, Bloomington and Western Railway. In 1906, the New York Central Railroad acquired the Big Four, and in the 1960s the Penn Central railroad absorbed Big Four's rail lines. This is one of the many visual materials collected for use in the Ohio Guide. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration by executive order to create jobs for the large numbers of unemployed laborers, as well as artists, musicians, actors, and writers. The Federal Arts Program, a sector of the Works Progress Administration, included the Federal Writers’ Project, one of the primary goals of which was to complete the America Guide series, a series of guidebooks for each state which included state history, art, architecture, music, literature, and points of interest to the major cities and tours throughout the state. Work on the Ohio Guide began in 1935 with the publication of several pamphlets and brochures. The Reorganization Act of 1939 consolidated the Works Progress Administration and other agencies into the Federal Works Administration, and the Federal Writers’ Project became the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio. The final product was published in 1940 and went through several editions. The Ohio Guide Collection consists of 4,769 photographs collected for use in the Ohio Guide and other publications of the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio from 1935-1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F07_004_001
Subjects: Locomotives--Ohio; Trains--History; Transportation--Ohio--History.; Passenger trains; Engines; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Ohio
 

Description: 6-ton electric cab locomotive made by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio. Power was supplied to the locomotive from an overhead electric trolley line. The locomotive was owned by the O. C. Barber Company, 1915, location unknown. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01326
Subjects: Locomotives; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
 

Description: The round object on the right is an Aerodyne mine ventilation fan made by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio. It was used at the Island Creek Coal Company, Holden, West Virginia, 1936. Ventilation fans forced fresh air into underground mines for miners to breathe and to dissipate poisonous gasses. In the background is a Chesapeake & Ohio steam locomotive and tender. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01568
Subjects: Locomotives; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Holden (West Virginia)
 

Description: 10-ton diesel locomotive made by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio. It was photographed in the Jeffrey yard and sold to the Consolidation Coal Company, location unknown, 1973. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01608
Subjects: Locomotives; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Columbus (Ohio)
 

Description: 25-ton electric locomotive frame made by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio. The frame is pictured inside the factory, 1951. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01613
Subjects: Locomotives; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Columbus (Ohio)
 

Description: 25-ton electric locomotive made by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio on display in the factory yard, 1951. The locomotive was built for the Tennessee Coal and Iron Railroad Company. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01614
Subjects: Locomotives; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Columbus (Ohio)