The Globe Locomotive Works was a late-19th century manufacturer of

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steam locomotives and other machinery based in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1846, the firm built some one hundred steam locomotives for railroads throughout the

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. From 1849 to 1851, it was operated by

John Souther John Souther (March 1, 1816 – September 12, 1911) was the founder of Globe Locomotive Works, an American steam locomotive manufacturing company. In his obituary published in the Newton, Massachusetts Newton is a city in Middlesex Cou ...

as Globe Works. In 1864 the company (a joint venture of

and D.A. Pickering) ceased producing locomotives and instead focused on the manufacture of steam shovels.

Locomotives

The ''

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'', a wood-burning type 4-4-0 built by the company in 1849 for the

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, had the distinction of being the first locomotive to travel west of the

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. The unit was subsequently renamed the ''C.K. Garrison'' (an appellation it retained for some 15 years), and ultimately carried the name ''Pioneer'' beginning around 1870 (not to be confused with the

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named ''

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'' that is preserved in

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References

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