This narrow gauge locomotive was used to haul sand to the factory to use in the brick making process. The sand was dug by the company's steam powered shovel from a nearby hill on company property. The hopper car in the photos carried the sand from the hill to the factory. On some return trips to the sand hill, it carried water in the tank at the front of the car to supply the steam shovel. Bags of coal are on the small cart located to the left background of the hopper car in the upper photo. One bag was carried on each return trip to supply the steam shovel.
Upper Photo: Washington County Historical Society, Wisconsin -
courtesy of Brad Smith
Lower Photo: Courtesy of Brad Smith
Text: Based on "The
Acme Brick Company - Narrow Gauge in Wisconsin" by Brad Smith ~
"Narrow Gauge and Short Line Gazette" May/June 1996
The Edgewood U. S. Army arsenal was located at Edgewood, Maryland
The image appeared on page 56 of the July 15, 1919 edition of Canada Lumberman and Woodworker
The locomotive operated at the corporation's facility in the Lake Maracaibo region of Venezuela
The images are from the Steve Sleightholm collection
The company was based in the province of Pampanga in the Philippines.
Per the article accompanying the image, the company had 4 Bell geared steam locomotives.
The image appeared on page 355 of the June, 1921 edition of International Engineering: Construction (Ingeniería Internacional: Construcción)
Built ?? - 24" gauge - Fuel (gasoline)
This locomotive is the ONLY known Bell geared steam locomotive to exist at the current date (February, 2015).
The locomotive, owned by the Shell Oil Company, operated at their
refinery near San Lorenzo, Venezuela
Photos hosted by:
~ Upper -
The International Steam Pages. Taken at The Transport
Museum, Caracas, Venezuela on October 20, 2013 by Steen Larsen.
~ Middle -
www.steamlocomotive.info - Taken at The Transport
Museum, Caracas, Venezuela by Robin R. Beck
~ Lower -
The Transport
Museum, Caracas, Venezuela
The company was a construction contractor in New York. They assisted in the construction of the New York City Subway. Nothing is known about the locomotive, where or when the photo was taken. From its apparent condition in the photo, it may be new and in transit to Terry & Tench from the Bell factory.
The company was based in New York City, New York.
The photo is believed to have been taken at one of their banana plantations in Central America in 1922. The locomotives appears to be a 4 wheel unit running on narrow gauge track.
It is from the John Patrick Dannahy Collection of United Fruit Company Photographs held at the Baker Library, Harvard Business School
The locomotive resembles the "open
cab type" model.
Photo hosted by the
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