A type "A-2" gasoline locomotive at the North Pacific Lumber Company, Portland, Oregon, 1910
The Milwaukee Locomotive Manufacturing Company was an American locomotive manufacturer founded in 1907. It specialized in locomotives for industrial railroads, and was one of the first builders of gasoline locomotives for use in the mining industry.[1]
A works photograph of a Milwaukee 5 ton mining locomotive, 1914
The company was founded in October 1907, in Milwaukee,[2] by F.P. Cook, Adolph N. Miller and William W. Plankinton.[3] In 1908, the company leased a new factory in North Milwaukee.[4] The company's first product was the Vanguard, a standard gauge 30hp yard switcher.[5]
In 1910, it supplied one of the first gasoline locomotives for use in a United States coal mine when it supplied the Midvalley Coal Company of Wilburton with one of its 9-ton Model M-4 locomotives.[6]
In 1924, the company introduced its Type H locomotive.[8]
From at least 1919,[9] the company was operated as a subsidiary of the National Brake and Electric Company of Milwaukee, itself a subsidiary of Westinghouse Air Brake Company.[10] On 19 July 1932, the company was sold to the Geo D. Whitcomb Company where it operated as a subsidiary until 1935.[11]
Preservation
At least 8 Milwaukee locomotives are known to have been preserved:[2]
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