Locomotive Builders

Steam Locomotive Manufacturing in Michigan

• Cadillac City Iron Works.  Built Shay locomotives in late 1870's and early 1880's.  [SMcD]

• Detroit, Lansing & Northern Railroad shops at Ionia [CB]

• Detroit Locomotive Works (1850's).  Built locomotives for the Michigan Central.  [Detroit Free Press, 5/27/1855, 11/11/1855, 8/12/1857 in the index at theBurton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library][HWC]

• Grand Rapids & Indiana shops at Grand Rapids [CB]

• Michigan Central Railroad.  [HWC]

• Michigan Iron Works at Cadillac (made 7-8 locomotives including the Henderson Shay) [SMcD}

• Michigan Iron Works at Grand Rapids (made 4 chain driven geared locomotives in 1878) [CB]