Ann Arbor Steam Locomotives

James M. Ashley

Builder of the Ann Arbor Railroad Co.

No Ann Arbor Steam Engines are known to exist today.

First Ann Arbor Railroad passenger train in 1889
Notice the deer head above the headlight.

Engineer Ralph Matthies on left

Engine #1

Engine #2

Engine #3

Engine #5

Engine #6

Engine #7
At Owosso in 1887.
The engine is a Rogers 4-4-0.

Engine #8

Engine #9

Engine #10

Taken at Cadillac in 1890

Engine #13

Engine #20

Engine #29

Engine #38
2-8-0

Engine #42

Engine #43 in about 1905

Baldwin loco #16025 built in 1898 (4-6-0)
scrapped in 1944

Engine #44

Atlantic 4-4-2...... Cadillac, MI circa 1940.

Engine #45

Engine #46 in about 1900

Engine #48

Below.....Engine No.101

Baltus Martin, Engineer....At Owosso - Early 1900's

Engine #107

Engine #120

Another pic of Engine #120

Heres a great shop of Engine #121 at the Turn Table at Owosso in March 1940

Another pic of Engine #121

Engine #130
4-6-0

Another pic of #130 taken at Owosso, MI on 6/4/36

Engine #151

Engine #153

Engine #185....later re-numbered 2492

Pictures of the Wreck of #185

Engine #202 at Owosso

Engine #1520

Engine #1611

with Train 52

Cadillac, Michigan

July 31, 1950

Another pic of Engine #1611

And another pic of #1611 taking on water

Another pic of #1611 at Owosso in about June of 1945

Engine #1612

Engine #1614 at Durand

Engine #1614 in May 1938 in front of the AA Depot at Owosso

Engine #2171

Below.....Engine #2176

Another pic of #2176

Nice winter scene in the Owosso railyard in the 1940's of Ann Arbor Engines #2173, #2175 and #2552

Wabash Engine #2218 at Owosso

The Ann Arbor Railroad used 3 Wabash engines which were Mikato style steam engines which were built by the Brooks Locomotive Works in about 1922. These were numbered 2204 (200 lbs boiler pressure), 2218 (200 lbs) and 2257 (210 lbs).

The Ann Arbor Railroad had 8 Mikato Engines: Numbers 2480, 2481, 2482, 2490, 2491, 2492, 2493 and 2494. These Ann Arbor marked engines ran on 200 lbs of boiler pressure.

A man from Japan designed this engine and had several made which were shipped to Japan and the Wabash Railroad also ordered several.

Engine #2257 at Washington St.Owosso
Charlie Tufford....Engineer

Engine #2352

Engine #2380

Engine #2430

Engine #2480 at Owosso

Engine #2481

Below.....Ann Arbor 2-8-2 #2482

Photo taken at Owosso, MI on 6/4/39

Engine #2491

Scrapping Ann Arbor Engines in the 1940's at Owosso

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