Remembering Lima Locomotive Works

Lima has made some of amercias finest steam locomotives. Like the Nickel Plate Road 765. the southern pacific
4449. the PM 1225. the cass shays and much more. it aslo made all the shay and berkshires.

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[imagreatbigman]

the praire dog central #3 wasn't built by lima, it was built in scotland.

[ripjump12]

oh sorry for the messup STUPID GOOGLE SEARCH ENGINE

[jppicur]

The original builder of Shays was Ephriam Shay, himself. After home-building a few, he leased his patent rights to Lima Machine Works. So, Lima was NOT the only builder of Shays!

[jppicur]

Note to ripjump12 -- all three major American builders and ALCo-Montreal built Berkshires. The first 2-8-4 tender locomotive came from Baldwin for the ATSF. It was a one-off, not repeated. If you look at an Erie roster, you will find 2-8-4s from ALCo, BLW and Lima.

[otisgpug]

You're invited to visit the newly expanded Allen County Museum in Lima, Ohio featuring Shay Engine #10 of the Lima Stone Company - built in 1925. It's a 24 ton, two truck Shay.

[trainknut]

that is my rrm inbc canada

[bcschmerker]

Nice overview of Lima's products, from two-truck Shays (the mainstay of the Mt. Tamalpais & Muir Woods) to 2-10-4 Super Power freighters to trailer-boosted 4-8-4's for passenger expresses. BTW, the "Nickel Plate" 2-8-2 this video was officially called New York, Chicago & St. Louis (NYC&SL) #765.

[cobydickl]

if you want to get technical the last steam locomotive to leave Lima locomotives works would of been the 765 it stayed there for a few years in the late 80's or early 90's i remember going there and working on it as a young boy before getting the shop it is at now

[SierraRailway]

Williamette made some shays and other engines, so there were at least two companies making shays. Lima was the most well known at the time.

[teabowimaging]

Lima built a small 2-foot gauge Shay for the Gilpin Tram in Colorado. I don't have the data in front of me right now.

You could look it up yourself in "LIMA,The History" by Hirsimaki, or "Titan of Timber" by Koch. I don't know how close you live to Lima,Ohio. The Lima Public Library has both books in their collection.

[ripjump12]

now what was the shay that was alot smaller than the shay. it was by gilplin russel if im right.

[teabowimaging]

Nicholas Breeden

Check the book "LIMA, The History" by Eric Hirsimaki, published by Hundman. Chapter 10 "Walking with Confidence" page 146-148 discusses the "The Pacific Coast Shay" models and why LIMA choose to build them. Basically LIMA came up with the Pacific Coast Shay to better compete with Heisler, Climax, And Willamette Iron & Steel Works of Portland, Oregon. Nicholas you are wrong, now apologize to ripjump12 and traindude666 , and lets move on!