ライマ locomotive works

Production tablet, 1918 of Reimer

The ライマ locomotive works (Lima Locomotive Works) is the company which ran locomotive manufacturing industry from 1870s through 1950s of the United States of America. Because Ohio Reimer had a factory, it became the company name. I met between the main line of Baltimore & Ohio railroad and the nickel plate railroad. It is well known for the production of the Shay-type steam locomotive. It is the company which made experimental locomotive A-1.

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History

 

Shay-type steam locomotive

In 1987, the James array established Reimer machine shop for Shay-style steam locomotive production. First Shay was made in 1880, and the success made the base of the company.

In 1902, I was destroyed by fire by a fire, but the production was continued. Reimer entered it in the times when the railroad company did nothing but speed competition day in and day out at time, too. I performed the production such as steam crane and rotor Lee type snowplows.

Superpower

William E Woodard who was a machinist of Reimer envisioned a concept of "superpower" in the 1920s. I largely increased quantity of steam outbreak in the steam locomotive. The high output, high speed were thereby enabled more. In 1922, it produced H-10 experiment locomotives and demonstrated it. It came true by a high pressure boiler and a wide fire box, use of the heating steam.

Decline

In 1947, it merged with Hamilton of the general machine company and became ライマ Hamilton.

The last steam locomotive of Reimer Corporation was 779th unit wheel placement 2-8-4 "Berkshire" for nickel plate railroads for 1,949 years. In the same year, I announced the new locomotive of wheel placement 4-8-6, but I am pushed by a crowd of dieselization to flock and was not made.

In 1951, ライマ Hamilton merged with Baldwin. The results fitted both Reimer and Baldwin by steam locomotive production, but played second fiddle to Arco and GE in the production of the diesel. In 1956, the company withdrew from locomotive production.

The production of the construction machine including the crane was finished in 1980, too, and the factory was closed down and has been sold.

Allied

• List of diesels of ライマ Hamilton
• Mt. Ari forest railroad line
• Steam locomotive of the Mt. Ari forest railroad line
• A steam locomotive made in ライマ locomotive works company was created by comics "screw type" (Yoshiharu Tsuge).

Reference

• Steam Locomotive Builders
• Lima Locomotive Works and Super Power steam, Trains Magazine
• Lima Locomotive Works
• Hirsimaki, Eric (1986, 2004). Lima: The History. Mukilteo, WA: Hundman Publishing. 
• Neil L. Carlson, "Super-Power: Building a Mighty Mikado", Trains Magazine, May 2000.
• Neil L. Carlson, "Super-Power: From Berkshire to Big Boy", Trains Magazine, June 2000.

Outside link

• Preserved Lima locomotive list

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