Maumelle Ordnance Works Locomotive 1 (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Maumelle Ordnance Works Locomotive 1 is a gasoline powered, mechanically driven, two axle railway locomotive which was built in 1942 by Vulcan Iron Works for the War Department's Maumelle Ordnance Works. The Maumelle Ordnance Works were built by the War Department in 1941 to produce the explosives picric acid, ammonium picrate, and ammonium nitrate. The plant began production in 1942 and the locomotive was purchased to move freight cars around the facility, which was spread over 7,000 acres to minimize the risk of incidents spreading from one production unit to others. The plant stopped production in August 1945 and was decontaminated and shut down by November. The land passed through several hands and eventually became the planned community of Maumelle, Arkansas.