enterprise into the Norris Locomotive Works. One of the most historic events in railroading history occurred on July 10, 1836, when the Norris Brothers ran a...
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William Norris (July 2, 1802 – January 5, 1867) was an American steam locomotive builder. He founded the Norris Locomotive Works and through this company...
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first locomotive, Rogers also filled orders from fellow locomotive builders Matthias W. Baldwin (founder of Baldwin Locomotive Works) and William Norris (founder...
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2-6-0 (redirect from Mogul (locomotive))
as 1852–53 by two Philadelphia manufacturers, Baldwin Locomotive Works and Norris Locomotive Works, these first examples had their leading axles mounted...
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Nuremberg Norris Locomotive Works Norisbank, a bank in Germany T. Norris & Son, London, hand-tool makers Norris House, Palo Alto, California, U.S. Norris-Heartt...
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4-4-0 (redirect from 4-4-0 locomotive)
of locomotive for another two years. Norris Locomotive Works built that company's first 4-4-0 in 1839, followed by Rogers Locomotive & Machine Works, the...
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Locomotive Works – also known as Breese, Kneeland & Company Niles & Company Norris Locomotive Works Ottaway Amusement Company Pittsburgh Locomotive &...
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Richard Norris may refer to: Richard Norris (1807–1874), American locomotive engineer with Norris Locomotive Works Richard Norris (actor) (1910–1943)...
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The Schenectady Locomotive Works built railroad locomotives from its founding in 1848 through its merger into American Locomotive Company (ALCO) in 1901...
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Gov. Stanford (category Norris locomotives)
Gov. Stanford is a 4-4-0 steam locomotive originally built in 1862 by Norris Locomotive Works. Following construction, it was disassembled and hauled by...
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4-6-0 (category 4-6-0 locomotives)
type was. Many authorities attribute the design to Septimus Norris of Norris Locomotive Works, but in an 1885 paper, George E. Sellers attributes the design...
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California State Railroad Museum (section Locomotives)
Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1944. Central Pacific No. 1 Gov. Stanford - Cosmetically restored, a 4-4-0 type built by Norris Locomotive Works in 1862....
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— his eldest brother William Norris founded the Norris Locomotive Works of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Richard Norris took over the firm in about 1841...
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Machine Works of Massachusetts in 1867. The locomotive Mariposa, lettered G, was built by the Norris Locomotive Works in 1864. Sold in 1914 by the Southern...
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T. D. Judah (redirect from T.D. Judah (steam locomotive))
road's third and fourth locomotives respectively. Two other, larger engines, Gov. Stanford (number 1, built by Norris Locomotive Works) and Pacific (number...
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Portland Company established by John A. Poor and Septimus Norris of the Norris Locomotive Works. December 17 – The Lancaster and Carlisle Railway is opened...
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Central Pacific locomotives named for Stanford were: Gov. Stanford, a 4-4-0 locomotive built in 1863 by the Norris Locomotive Works in Philadelphia and...
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Railroad (d. 1891). July 2 – William Norris, American steam locomotive builder and founder of Norris Locomotive Works (d. 1867). "Camborne Hill". Federation...
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Elisabeth Baily Norris, a member of a prominent Philadelphia family. She was the daughter of Richard Norris of Norris Locomotive Works. They had several[quantify]...
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to the US, where he bought a used steam locomotive named Philadelphia, built by the Norris Locomotive Works in 1837. 16 May 1841. This section opened...
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Yorkshire, England. March – First ever 4-6-0 locomotive, the Chesapeake, completed by the Norris Locomotive Works for the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad...
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1920–1937 (d. 1939). January 5 – William Norris, American steam locomotive builder and founder of Norris Locomotive Works (b. 1802). February 7 – William Dargan...
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the Sebastopol. Sunday and holiday passenger trains often required two locomotives and sometimes two or more sections. Independence day traffic required...
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C. P. Huntington (category Individual locomotives of the United States)
third locomotive after Gov. Stanford (number 1, built by Norris Locomotive Works) and Pacific (number 2, built by Mason Machine Works). The locomotive is...
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Portland Company (category Defunct locomotive manufacturers of the United States)
established 10 November 1846 by John A. Poor and Norris Locomotive Works engineer Septimus Norris as a locomotive foundry to build railroad equipment for the...
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Savage Locomotive Works was a railroad workshop established at Mount Savage, Maryland, US. The Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad locomotive shops were...
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Württemberg I (category Norris locomotives)
first locomotives. The three locomotives were of the 4-4-0 wheel arrangement and were manufactured by the Norris Locomotive Works in Philadelphia. They had...
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Perryville. That year, the railroad ordered seven 4-2-0 steam locomotives from Norris Locomotive Works; it ordered two more in or about 1840. On January 15, 1838...
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beginning of the 20th century. The locomotives and complementary rolling stock were entrusted to the Norris Locomotive Works in the United States, which built...
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restored in 2014), though the depiction of a locomotive on the tombstone is of one of the Norris Locomotives. Then a further boiler explosion on another...
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