Richmond Locomotive Works was a steam locomotive manufacturing firm located in Richmond, Virginia.
It began operation in 1887, and produced upward of 4,500 engines during its 40 years of operation.[1] The Richmond Locomotive Works was the largest and most significant manufacturer of locomotives in Virginia during its years of production.[2] Its only contemporary in Virginia was the Roanoke Shops, which produced locomotives exclusively for Norfolk & Western. In 1901 the works merged with several others to form the American Locomotive Company, which continued production at the Richmond works until 1927.
Among the locomotives Richmond produced was locomotive H2 293 for the Finnish State Railways, the locomotive that pulled Lenin's train into Petrograd on the last leg of his return from exile during the Russian Revolution of 1917, and Southern Railway 1401, which pulled President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Funeral Train.