Davenport Locomotive Works

Davenport also sold Davenport-Winchell three-wheel roller conversions of industrial wheel tractors, Davenport-Frink snow plows, which were built in license from Frink Sno-Plows Inc, and Reynolds patented Mov-Mor rotary scrapers.

Railroad buyers included the Rock Island, Milwaukee Road, Santa Fe, Frisco, and Missouri Pacific.

In 1963, that rule was relaxed and railroads ceased buying industrial-sized locomotives for light switching.

Davenport built a number of locomotives for the United States Army including World War I trench railways, the USATC S100 Class 0-6-0 of World War II, and eighteen larger switcher locomotives during the 1950s, two of which were adjustable in gauge: One could operate on broad gauges up to 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm), and one on narrow gauges—the latter (3 ft or 914 mm) operating for a period on the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad.

Three Davenport 500 HP locomotives (built in 1952) of the State Railway of Thailand[3] are still in service as of March 2023.

Alabama Power Company fireless locomotive No.40 built by Davenport in 1953 at the Heart of Dixie Railroad Museum . [ 1 ]
Davenport-built DkW OZA 0-4-0 ST No. 1907 on display outside the Frisco Depot Museum in Hugo, Oklahoma
Davenport #1597 preserved by Illawarra Light Railway Museum