The Richmond Locomotive & Machine Works: Engine of the Old Dominion - Paperback

by Nathan Madison (Author)

Experience the thriving industry and commerce of Richmond during the Gilded Age.

The Richmond Locomotive Works was born out of the ashes of the evacuation fires at the end of the Civil War. The company grew, despite numerous financial and personnel difficulties, to become one of the city's single-largest employers, an industrial behemoth that provided livelihoods to thousands upon thousands of men over the course of its existence. Over a span of sixty years, the facility produced a myriad of industrial products, including thousands of steam locomotives that traversed rails throughout the United States and across the world.

Historian Nathan Vernon Madison provides, for the first time since its closure in 1927, a thorough and complete history of this Richmond institution.

Author Biography

Nathan Vernon Madison is a graduate of the University of Mary Washington (BA) and Virginia Commonwealth University (MA). His works on Richmond industry include Tredegar Iron Works: Richmond's Foundry on the James (2015) and a chronicle of industrial Richmond for the Society for Industrial Archaeology (2018). He has participated in or co-produced documentaries airing on PBS, C-SPAN, AMC and the BBC. He also writes and lectures on the history of popular literature, with his books and articles regarding this topic published by Routledge, ABC/CLIO and McFarland, and he serves on the Editorial Board of the Pulp Magazines Project. He is a member of the Society for Industrial Archaeology and the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.