His ideas and improvements would later be adopted by other locomotive builders.

The 2-8-8-2 was a design largely limited to American locomotive builders.

This process was to continue for many years and damaged the sales of many locomotive builders.

His influence was exerted over all locomotive builders at the time and later.

However, British locomotive builders were so busy with War orders that none could supply a class of 50 locomotives quickly enough.

For the numerous private locomotive builders it was especially important to have high-quality photographs of their latest builds to showcase to potential customers.

This was unlike most railroads who gave only a broad specification, thereby leaving the majority of the decision making and design to the locomotive builder.

Alas, within 10 years there were too many locomotive builders for the small number of orders being produced in those depressed time.

Multiple attempts at this type were made by German locomotive builders.

The traditional locomotive builders were prohibited from building diesel road locomotives until early 1945.