Ernst Wiener Co., New York

Gasoline industrial locomotive by Ernst Wiener Co., New York

Ernst Wiener Co., New York was a US-American locomotive manufacturer.

Products

Ernst Wiener Co., New York built for instance a gasoline locomotive designed to haul ten loaded cars (tonnage 25), at a speed of eight to twelve miles an hour (13 to 20 km/h). It had a four cylinder, water cooled, four-cycle, gasoline engine, with cylinders cast in pairs and standing vertically. Ignition was provided by the storage battery and magnetic type, arranged for two sets of spark plugs. A radiator of the automobile type was at the front of the locomotive.^[1]^[2]

References

↑ Cyclopedia of applied electricity : a general reference work on direct-current generators and motors, storage batteries, electrochemistry, welding, electric wiring, meters, electric lighting, electric railways, power stations, switchboards, power transmission, alternating-current machinery, telegraphy, etc.
↑ Sid Barnes: Gasoline locomotives for industrial railways.

North American locomotive builders

ALCO Alco-GE Altoona Works Atlas Baldwin Bombardier Brooks Brookville CLC Climax Cooke Davenport Dickson EMD Fairbanks-Morse GE Transportation GMD Globe Grant Hinkley Ingalls Jewett Lima Manchester Mason MLW Mount Clare Shops Mount Savage NREC Norris Pittsburgh Porter Portland Progress Rail Services Railpower Rhode Island Roanoke Shops Richmond Rogers Schenectady SLCC Taunton Tredegar Vulcan Wabtec Westinghouse Whitcomb Willamette

See also: List of locomotive builders

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