Amoskeag Locomotive Works

The locomotive works operated as a division of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company between 1848 and 1859.

Besides building locomotives for railroad use, Amoskeag also built steam fire engines until 1876.

A steam-driven self-propelled appliance was made by Amoskeag was used to fight the Great Boston Fire of 1872.

The Firefighters Museum in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, has an 1863 Amoskeag fire engine.

[2]: 78  Amoskeag Manufacturing sold the fire engine business to the Manchester Locomotive Works in 1876.