Erie Railroad Steam Locomotive #4219

Archive ID# 6,860.

Built by the Brooks Locomotive Company.

Ulster & Delaware Railroad, Steam Locomotive #4

Built by the Brooks Locomotive Company in 1887, builder # 1,235.

Archive Id # 6,146.

Ulster & Delaware Railroad, Steam Locomotive #8 in March, 1900

Built by the Brooks Locomotive Company in 1882, builder # 3,060.

Archive Id # 6,141.

Brook's Locomotive

Locomotive #3, Near Grand Gorge in the Winter of 1891-92.

Built by the Brooks Locomotive Company in 1887.

Archive Id # 6,137.

Brook's Locomotive

Locomotive #3, Near Grand Gorge in the Winter of 1891-92.

Built by the Brooks Locomotive Company in 1887.

Archive Id # 6,136.

Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Steam Locomotive #34

Built by the Brooks Locomotive Company in 1886.

Scrapprd May 22, 1926.

Archive # 5,455.

Chicago & Alton Railroad Steam Locomotive #502

Built by the Brooks Locomotive Company.

Archive # 5,369.

Fitchburg Railroad Locomotive List

Boston, Hoosac Tunnel & Western Railroad Locomotive List

Central Railroad of New Jersey Steam Locomotive #852

Built by the Brooks Locomotive Company in 1905, builder #38864.

Lehigh Valley Railroad #2097

Lehigh Valley 2097 (4-6-2) K6s Schtdy 1927 ALCO 1921-LU 1925 1926.

Sayre, Pa 1940.

Alco-Brooks #65262 - 2/1924.

Streamlined-1939.

Scrapped 12/1950.

Chatham & Lebanon Valley Railroad Steam Locomotive #5

Built by the Brooks Locomotive Company in 1885, builder #910.

Later Rutland Railroad #78.

Bennington & Rutland Railroad Steam Locomotive #7 "M.S. Colburn"

Built by the Brooks Locomotive Company in 1873, builder #189 for the New York, Boston and Montreal Railway #3.

Rutland Railroad Steam Locomotive #244

Built by Brooks Locomotive Company in 1900, builder #3448.

Boston and Albany Steam Locomotive #505

Built by Brooks Locomotive Company in 1918.

Norfolk & Western Steam Locomotive No. 117

NORFOLK & WESTERN NO. 117

In 1919, when the Norfolk & Western railroad found that it needed longer and heavier passenger trains, it ordered ten mighty 4-8-2, or Mountain, type engines to haul them at high speed in the mountain Districts. One 4.8-2 was No. 117 shown here with the Winston Salem local at the Roanoke, Virginia, station. All ten Mountains were equipped with streamlined shrouds as much for appearance as to combat wind resistance. Although Brooks Locomotive Works built all this lot— Nos. 116-125, the Norfolk & Western had its own locomotive-building shops, as did a few other railroads. These turned out modern coalburning iron horses until 1952. For several years after the American railroad industry as a whoIe had dieselized, the Norfolk & Western, located in one of the nations richest coal fields, was known as the last big stronghold of steam power in the United States. Eventually even the N. & W. followed the national trend by scrapping its "steam­ers"' in favor of diesels.

PHOTO BY O. WINSTON LINK

Jersey Central Camelback

This 41-2 (Atlantic) type engine, which Brooks Locomotive Co. built in 1901 for the Central Railroad of New Jersey, was one of several hundred "double-cabbers" that operated mostly in the East over a period of about seventy years, beginning in 1880. The middle cab resembled a camel’s hump or Mother Hubbard’s hood and was, therefore, called a Camelback or Mother Hubbard. In some Camelbacks the rear cab was so rudimentary that it was almost nonexistent. While this arrangement gave the engineer working on mid-boiler a better view of the track ahead, it lessened cooperation between him and his fireman shoveling coal in the tender behind. It was virtually impossible for the fireman to communicate with the engineer while the train was running, although the engineer could signal by bell or whistle; and in an emergency the fireman could stop the train by setting the air brake. Built for speed, Camelbacks pulled the fastest passenger trains on the Camden-Atlantic City run.

New York Central Railroad Steam Locomotive #9246

At McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania on July 10, 1938.

Built by Brooks Locomotive Company in 1925, builder # 66089.

Type 4-6-2 Class K-6A.

Ex Boston & Albany #591

New York Central Railroad Steam Locomotive #40

Built by Brooks Locomotive Company in September, 1912.

New York, Ontario & Western Railroad #73

New York, Ontario & Western No. 73, 4-4-0
Brooks, c/n 1129, 7/1886
18x24 118,000 82,000 180 lbs.
17,100 TE 69" Drivers
Rebuilt Rome Machine Works 1903
Scrapped 10/31/1932