Jabelmann, and his predecessor A.H.Fetters, too. While you’re out in that part of the country, Ripley of ATSF certainly qualifies…
How about Thomas Rogers?
From the B&O I’ll throw out Ross Wians and George Emerson.
Honest question: does Baldwin belong on our list? I don’t know that much about him.
If we go back to the Pioneer Period then certainly Matthias Baldwin belongs on the list.
Most of the pioneers mentioned in Angus Sinclair’s History of the Locomotive Engine. See also that poem about different locomotive bells, which gives a list of contemporarily-known engine builders.
Including Eddy, who is also famous for enabling a major religion. And McQueen of 999 fame.
Inexplicably no one has mentioned Cole at Alco, who was one of the major figures at a defining time in American locomotive engineering.
Ralph Johnson was good enough to write one of the major American textbooks on steam-locomotive engineering – my copy was the 1983 reprint, and I think there are later ones. Strangely, there is not a word about the duplex principle in any of the editions I’ve seen.
Besler had a railroad presence, including the B&O W-1 constant-torque, and Doble at least thought about rail applications. Stanley of course made the Unit Railcar. I don’t know if there was a ‘chief designer’ for the International steam railcar in the late Twenties, but both the steam generator and the engine were interesting… it was just that Dilworth et al. were better at it, and GM kicked the game into whole new levels…
I am well loved here at Leeds Sovereign Street. [:D] and I can pull Annie and Clarabel. [:-^]
IMG_2302 by David Harrison, on Flickr
Look at the face of that useful little engine! He doesn’t care what anyone says, he’s just gettin’ it done!
They certainly think Thomas is useful at the Strasburg RR! So much so that on their “Day Out With Thomas” events they call him “Thomas the BANK Engine,” because as the old song says “My God how the money rolls in!”
OK, those American locomotive designers may be famous amongst train buffs, but do any of them have statues like the ones of Nigel Gresley and I.K. Brunel in Paddington Station? And, yes there is one of that bear from darkest Peru. George Stephenson has a statue in the National Railway Museum at York. My point is, for the American locomotive designers only train buffs know about them. In the U.K. the general public seems more aware of their guys.
I loved the Paddington Bear books, but I am at a loss to describe any locomotive class designed by him.
But he did have tea with the late Queen quite recently…
Peter
Not only that, but you learn just what was in her handbag.
And I always thought she had a .455 Webley in there, just in case. [;)]
There’s a statue of Matthias Baldwin in Philadelphia. Unfortunately it became a target for ignorant SJW’s in 2020, who apparantly didn’t know anything about Baldwin other than he was a “dead white male.”
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/defaced-abolitionist-statue/
Too much of that happening these days. [:(]
That the problem with mob mentality. It’s infectious, it’s seductive, it get’s people thinking with their adrenals instead of their brains and makes them do things as part of a mob they’d never do as individuals.
Like a cattle stampede, once started impossible to stop until the energy runs out.
"We’ve shares in all the best companies,
in Tramways, Tobacco and Tin
in brothels in Rio de Janeiro
My God, how the money rolls in…"
I can’t remember any more and I suspect much of it would not be acceptable, at least the ve
And I always thought she had a .455 Webley in there, just in case. 
I would have thought it would be a broom-handle Mauser- Winston carried one.
And I always thought she had a .455 Webley in there, just in case.
I would have thought it would be a broom-handle Mauser- Winston carried one but I’m sure you knew that.
Ah yes, rugby songs…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eKzZVA0Eyc0
There are clean versions out there but I couldn’t find one. Does anyone know the chorus for ‘my typist is on her vacation’ [I have of course extensively proofed the title for clarity…]
This song always makes me think of W.W.Stewart’s story about the person involved with the NZR Garratts rubbing his hands together saying My God, she’ll practically be puffing pound notes out of her chimney…