Plymouth Locomotive Works

Production of locomotives has now ceased, and rights to the spare parts business have been sold to Williams Distribution.

Fate patent application filed in 1917 shows the engine driving a clutch and a continuously variable transmission that allowed varying the speed through zero to reverse the locomotive.

[5] All early Plymouth locomotives were powered by gasoline-burning internal combustion engines, but in 1927 the first diesel was produced.

[citation needed] Early Plymouth gasoline-powered locomotives were built with Chrysler engines.

Plymouth produced locomotives in most rail gauges, mostly with mechanical torque converter transmissions.