Locomotive #3, Near Grand Gorge in the Winter of 1891-92

ID# 61,797

Marcellus & Otisco Lake Railroad #12 at Marcellus, New York in 1933

ID# 23,820

New York Central Railroad Steam Locomotive #1382

ID# 51,383

New York Central Railroad Steam Locomotive #40 at Highbridge, New York, January 16, 1921

ID# 27,191

Erie Railroad Steam Locomotive #1007

ID# 37,483

Central Railroad of New Jersey Steam Locomotive #852

ID# 53,277

New York Central Railroad Steam Locomotive #4307

ID# 52,508

Rock Island Railroad, Steam Locomotive #1301 at Bureau, Illinois in 1900

ID# 37,289

New York, Ontario & Western Railroad #228 at Middletown, New York in August, 1936

ID # 11,890

New York, Ontario & Western Railroad Steam Locomotive #70 at Norwich, New York in 1890

ID # 21,122

Built by the Brooks Locomotive Company in 1886.

Ulster & Delaware Railroad Steam Locomotive #17

ID # 3,705

Built by the Brooks Locomotive Company in 1890.

Ulster & Delaware Railroad Steam Locomotive #16

ID # 3,702

Built by the Brooks Locomotive Company.

Ulster & Delaware Railroad, Steam Locomotive #8 at Phoenicia, New York in March, 1900

ID # 37,237

Built by the Brooks Locomotive Company in 1888, builder # 3,060.

Hoosac Tunnel & Wilmington Railroad Locomotive #21

ID # 17,555

Built by the Brooks Locomotive Company in 1893, builder # 2,041.

Norfolk & Western Steam Locomotive No. 117

ID # 1,104

NORFOLK & WESTERN NO. 117

In 1919, when the Norfolk & Western railroad found that it needed longer and heavier passenger trains, it ordered ten mighty 4-8-2, or Mountain, type engines to haul them at high speed in the mountain Districts. One 4.8-2 was No. 117 shown here with the Winston Salem local at the Roanoke, Virginia, station. All ten Mountains were equipped with streamlined shrouds as much for appearance as to combat wind resistance. Although Brooks Locomotive Works  built all this lot. Nos. 116-125, the Norfolk & Western had its own locomotive-building shops, as did a few other railroads. These turned out modern coalburning iron horses until 1952. For several years after the American railroad industry as a whole had dieselized, the Norfolk & Western, located in one of the nations richest coal fields, was known as the last big stronghold of steam power in the United States. Eventually even the N. & W. followed the national trend by scrapping its "steamers"' in favor of diesels.

PHOTO BY O. WINSTON LINK

Ulster & Delaware Railroad, Steam Locomotive #5 in 1895

ID # 3,773

Built by the Brooks Locomotive Company in 1894, builder # 2,425. Renumbered #18 in 1898.

Jersey Central Camelback

ID # 1,085

JERSEY CENTRAL CAMELBACK

This 41-2 (Atlantic) type engine, which Brooks Locomotive Co. built in 1901 for the Central Railroad of New Jersey, was one of several hundred "double-cabbers" that operated mostly in the East over a period of about seventy years, beginning in 1880. The middle cab resembled a camel's hump or Mother Hubbard's hood and was, therefore, called a Camelback or Mother Hubbard. In some Camelbacks the rear cab was so rudimentary that it was almost nonexistent. While this arrangement gave the engineer working on mid-boiler a better view of the track ahead, it lessened cooperation between him and his fireman shoveling coal in the tender behind. It was virtually impossible for the fireman to communicate with the engineer while the train was running, although the engineer could signal by bell or whistle; and in an emergency the fireman could stop the train by setting the air brake. Built for speed, Camelbacks pulled the fastest passenger trains on the Camden-Atlantic City run.

BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD

New York, Ontario & Western Railroad Steam Locomotive #76

ID # 21,163

Built by the Brooks Locomotive Company in January, 1887, builder # 1,179.

Ulster & Delaware Railroad, Steam Locomotive #8 in 1888

ID # 3,789

Built by the Brooks Locomotive Company in 1882, builder # 3,060.

Ulster & Delaware Railroad, Steam Locomotive #4

ID # 3,772

Built by the Brooks Locomotive Company in June, 1889, builder # 1,235.