Grant Locomotive Works

[1] In 1842, Samuel Smith, Abram Collier, and George Bradley started a small foundry in Paterson.

William Swinburne, who had been superintendent at Rogers Locomotive Works bought Beggs's interest.

In 1863-64, Oliver De Forest Grant bought the stock and ran the business with his sons, David B.

[2] The namesake of the 2-8-0 Consolidation type was designed in 1866 by Alexander Mitchell, Master Mechanic of the Mahanoy Division of the Lehigh Valley Railroad.

[3] The company's boilermakers struck for higher wages in 1872; Grant locked them out and eventually replaced them for less money.

They spent more than a million dollars on buildings and installed largely new machinery, bringing only certain patterns from Paterson.

[1] In 1887, shortly before the fire destroyed much of their factory the company secured a single order (works no.

1713 according to the Best list ) for a 2-6-2 "Prairie" tank locomotive for the Chinese Engineering & Mining Company's Kaiping colliery at Tangshan, N.E.