I wondered if anyone could shed some light on this photograph and where it was taken.



I see there is a number in the bottom right corner. It looks like a 1154-1 and is dated 6-19-41.

Thanks!
Pat Connors

This is the Lima Locomtive Works boiler shop.
1154 refers to the order number which was for ten C&O 2-6-6-6's which were built in 1941.
The -1 is merely the sequence number of builders photographs.

Jim Kreider

Very cool photo! Interesting in how they lapped the sides over (outside of) the roof sheet.

And Order 1155 was the Pere Marquette N-1's, which included PM 1225. Some of these series of builder's photos show parts of both orders side by side. That could be a boiler barrel on end for an N-1 being riveted by a hydraulic "bull riveter" at the back of the photo. If you had been in Owosso, Michigan, this summer, you would have seen the 1225 without its firebox, much like the Alleghenys in this photo. But the new sheets are all in now, and being welded up. It's possible that one of the locomotives in this photo is the H-8 now on display in the Henry Ford at Dearborn, Michigan.

Aarne Frobom
Flannery Heights, Michigan