Lima Locomotive Works was an American builder of railroad locomotives, active from the 1870s into the 1950s and named for its main plant in Lima, Ohio. The works grew from the Lima Machine Works, which began building the geared Shay logging locomotive designed by Ephraim Shay under licence in the 1880s. In the 1920s its mechanical engineer William E. Woodard developed the Super Power concept of large-firebox, high-horsepower steam locomotives, demonstrated by the 2-8-4 prototype A-1 of 1925, whose wheel arrangement became known as the Berkshire. During the Second World War the plant also produced the M4A1 version of the Sherman tank. In 1947 the firm merged with General Machinery Corporation to form the Lima-Hamilton Corporation, which built diesel locomotives from 1949 and merged with Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1951.
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The company's name is derived from the location of its main manufacturing plant in Lima, Ohio
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In April 1947, the firm merged with General Machinery Corporation of Hamilton, Ohio, to form the Lima-Hamilton Corporation.
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Lima Locomotive Works (LLW) was an American firm that manufactured railroad locomotives from the 1870s through the 1950s.
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Lima Locomotive Works (LLW) was an American firm that manufactured railroad locomotives from the 1870s through the 1950s.
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The Chesapeake and Ohio class H-8 is a class of 60 simple articulated 2-6-6-6 steam locomotives built by the Lima Locomotive Works in Lima, Ohio, between 1941 and 1948.
Chesapeake and Ohio class T-1 (Wikipedia)
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The Chesapeake and Ohio T-1 was a class of forty 2-10-4 steam locomotives built by the Lima Locomotive Works in 1930 and operated until the early 1950s.
Shay locomotive (Wikipedia)
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Lima Locomotive Works of Lima, Ohio built Ephraim Shay's prototype engine in 1880.
Southern Pacific GS-2 class (Wikipedia)
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built by the Lima Locomotive Works
Southern Pacific GS-3 class (Wikipedia)
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built by the Lima Locomotive Works
Southern Pacific GS-5 class (Wikipedia)
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built by the Lima Locomotive Works
Southern Pacific GS-6 class (Wikipedia)
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built by the Lima Locomotive Works
Central of Georgia K class (Wikipedia)
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produced by Lima Locomotive Works
Great Northern P-1 (Wikipedia)
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The Great Northern P-1 was a class of 15 4-8-2 "Mountain" type steam locomotives built by the Lima Locomotive Works in 1914 and operated by the Great Northern Railway.
Union Pacific Class S-6 (Wikipedia)
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The Union Pacific Class S-6 was a class of 0-6-0 switcher type steam locomotives built by the Lima Locomotive Works (LLW) for the Union Pacific Railroad (UP).
Lima LS-1000 (Wikipedia)
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built between May 1949 and April 1950, by the Lima-Hamilton Corporation of Lima, Ohio, United States
Lima LS-1200 (Wikipedia)
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built between May 1950 and August 1951, by the Lima-Hamilton Corporation of Lima, Ohio, United States
Lima LRS-1200 (Wikipedia)
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B-B diesel locomotive built by Lima-Hamilton in 1950
Lima-Hamilton 2500HP Transfer Locomotive (Wikipedia)
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built by the Lima-Hamilton Corporation between 1950 and 1951
Lima 750 and 800 hp switchers (Wikipedia)
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built between November 1949 and June 1951, by the Lima-Hamilton Corporation of Lima, Ohio, U.S.A.
Southern Pacific class AC-9 (Wikipedia)
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The twelve AC-9 class locomotives were purchased from Lima in 1939
Chesapeake and Ohio Greenbrier (Wikipedia)
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twelve 4-8-4 steam locomotives built by the Lima Locomotive Works between 1935 and 1948
Chesapeake and Ohio class K-4 (Wikipedia)
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were built between 1943 and 1947 by the American Locomotive Company and the Lima Locomotive Works
Louisville and Nashville class M-1 (Wikipedia)
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The third batch consisted of twenty-two locomotives built by Lima in 1949
Southern Pacific GS-4 class (Wikipedia)
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A total of 28 locomotives were built by Lima Locomotive Works (LLW) in Lima, Ohio
Baltimore and Ohio class S (Wikipedia)
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The first batch of 25 were built by Lima, and numbered 6175-6199.
Maine Central class O 4-6-0 (Wikipedia)
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Lima Locomotive Works built locomotives 383 through 390 with Baker valve gear in 1923.
USATC S160 Class (Wikipedia)
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800 locomotives were constructed in 1942/3 in thirteen batches, split between ALCO, Baldwin and Lima Locomotive Works.
New York Central Mohawk (Wikipedia)
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50 L-4 locomotives were produced by the Lima Locomotive Works in 1942.
MAV Class 411 (Wikipedia)
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Lima - 203 pc
SNCF Class 141R (Wikipedia)
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The first engine, the 141 R 1 built by Lima, left the workshops on 30 July 1945.
Wikipedia: New York Central Hudson
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275 of them were built in three different classes between 1927 and 1938 by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) and the Lima Locomotive Works (LLW)
Pennsylvania Railroad class M1 (Wikipedia)
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175 from the Baldwin Locomotive Works and 25 from Lima Locomotive Works
Pennsylvania Railroad class B6 (Wikipedia)
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A total of 79 were built by Baldwin and Lima, in addition to Altoona
USRA Light Mikado (Wikipedia)
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Built 1918-1919 by ALCO and Lima.
Pennsylvania Railroad class L1 (Wikipedia)
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These 574 locomotives were manufactured between 1914 and 1919 by the railroad's own Juniata Shops (344 examples) as well as the Baldwin Locomotive Works (205) and the Lima Locomotive Works (25).
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