. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . gard to quality andkeep in mind the fact that all else con-nected with a railroad is auxiliary tothe principle. Geo. E. Bend, Wash. A Former Prominent PhiladelphiaPlant. Editor : The illustration accompanying ihisarticle is reproduced from an old ma- delphia was thus terminated, the firmenjoyed a short renaissance in Lan-caster, Pa., where it leased and op-erated the old plant of the LancasterLocomotive Works, formerly conductedby the Brandts. In this new location the firm wasagai
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . gard to quality andkeep in mind the fact that all else con-nected with a railroad is auxiliary tothe principle. Geo. E. Bend, Wash. A Former Prominent PhiladelphiaPlant. Editor : The illustration accompanying ihisarticle is reproduced from an old ma- delphia was thus terminated, the firmenjoyed a short renaissance in Lan-caster, Pa., where it leased and op-erated the old plant of the LancasterLocomotive Works, formerly conductedby the Brandts. In this new location the firm wasagain known as Norris Brothers, andduring 1866 and portions of 1865 and1X7 limit a number of locomotives forvarious railways, and then closed theplant, since which time the name ofNorris has never appeared among ac-tive builders of locomotives. It might be added that at one time,during the earlier history of the com-pany, it operated a locomotive worksat Schenectady, X. V., which afterwardbecame the well-known SchenectadyLocomotive Works, but withdrew fromthat enterprise, if I am correctly in-. NORRIS LOCOMOTIVE WORKS, PHILADELPHIA, PA., 1851. gazine published in New York City in1851, and kindly loaned the writer byJ. Snowden Bell, Esq., of that city. This magazine bore the rather pon-derous title of The United States Ma-gazine of Science, Art, Manufactures,Commerce and Trade, and the engrav-ing was used as a frontispiece, and inconnection with an article entitled TheTransportation of Passengers andWares. The Norris plant was started amongthe earliest in the history of Americanrailroading, and under the various firmnames of Long & Norris, WilliamNorris, Norris Brothers, and RichardNorris & Son, built many locomotivesfor both American and foreign railwaysuntil 1865, when the shops were closedin Philadelphia and were later pur-chased by the firms greatest competi-tor, the Baldwin Locomotive Works. Although its existence in Phila- formed, because the financial resultswere not sufficie
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