Cover title: The Lancaster Locomotive Works, 1853-1870.
Includes bibliographical references as well as numerous photographs of locomotives.
Summary
"By [1875]...the third and final attempt to build locomotives in the city of Lancaster had failed. The effort should have succeeded. The works employed a distinguished master mechanic as superintendent whose locomotives were identified by his own name. The second set of owners brought the experience and connections of the nation's most prominent family of locomotive builders. The final attempt was fostered by the quintessence of American business, the promoter. All of them failed. Plagued by under capilatlization, over capacity, the periodic depressions in the economy and just plain bad timing, the Lancaster Locomotive Works was typical of much of American business in the early years of industrial expansion -closed- its buildings put to another use, almost forgotten."
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Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory and the Lancaster County Archives, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
