The Wikipedia article, while generally correct does contain some errors.
One that stands out is where they state that the Cagneys “absorbed” the miniature railroad portion of the McGarigle’s machine shop business. That is not what happened. The Cagneys and the McGarigles, even though related by marriage, had a falling out.
This likely happened as the Cagneys needed at least twenty five locomotive and tender sets for current orders including the 1904 TRans-Mississippi Exposition. The McGarigles were unable to furnish all of them promptly as they were concurrently building nearly identical 15” gauge 4-4-0’s for the Armitage-Herschell Co. (later Herschell-Spillman) The Cagney Brothers as part of the settlement took the patterns and tooling for the 22” gauge Class E and the newly re-designed heavier Class D to a shop in Jersey City. The McGarigles continued to build the early style Class D for the various Herschell companies. Also the Class D pre-dates the 1904 date in the article. They go back to at least 1898. The first Class D’s had a false wagon top boiler and frames that wee 3/4” thick. It was found that more steam capacity was needed and more weight. So in 1904 with the Trans-Mississippi Exposition needing the improvements, they beefed up the Class D with 1” thick frames and a true wagon top boiler with more steam space.
Keith
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Re: German Cagney
The Railway Industry, Breslau is actually the Linke Hofman Werkes.
As the 1925 18" gauge 2C1 is a substantial build perhaps LHW may have thought it worthwhile to build a batch of these for other places as well?
Also, it is a rare example of a railroad steam locomotive of any gauge being imported into the U.S.A. so it might be worth being given priority for that reason to be restored and exhibited?
As the 1925 18" gauge 2C1 is a substantial build perhaps LHW may have thought it worthwhile to build a batch of these for other places as well?
Also, it is a rare example of a railroad steam locomotive of any gauge being imported into the U.S.A. so it might be worth being given priority for that reason to be restored and exhibited?