That did not stop early locomotives surviving with industrial users until the 1950s.

On very early locomotives it is possible to find a purely hand driven wipers.

The earlier locomotives also differed from each other as to the boilers fitted.

Withdrawal of the earlier locomotives began around 1900, though many others proved long-lived and worked on into the 1930s.

As is the case with many small, early locomotives, we know little of their operating history.

Most early electric locomotives shared commonalities with the steam engines of their time.

The type is sometimes named "Columbia" after an early locomotive of 2-4-2 arrangement.

Trailing wheels were used in some early locomotives but fell out of favor for a time during the latter 19th century.

From the early 1890s locomotives with six coupled wheels were acquired.

A number of the early German locomotives built for use on these lines have been preserved.