found: Work cat.: Kosmos Logging Company's Whitcomb locomotive no. 2 with crew and flatbed railroad cars loaded with logs, ca. 1940, via the Clark Kinsey digital image collection, Nov. 30, 2006.
found: North East Rails Web site, Nov. 30, 2006:locomotives/industrial/Whitcomb ("The Whitcomb Locomotive Works were located at Rochelle, IL. Originally known as the George D. Whitcomb Co. which produced mining equipment including gas and electric locomotives after the turn of the century. In 1931 the company became bankrupt and was purchased by the Baldwin Locomotive Works from 1931 which operated the company as the Whitcomb Locomotive Works until 1940. Baldwin completely took over the company in 1940 and was operated as a division of Baldwin. In Febuary of 1952 locomotive production was shifted from Rochelle to the Eddystone Works.")
found: Wikipedia, Nov. 30, 2006:Whitcomb Locomotive Works (Whitcomb Locomotive Company; Whitcomb gasoline locomotive; Whitcomb locomotives; first explosion-proof electric mine locomotive was designed and built by Whitcomb in 1914; first Whitcomb electric trolley locomotive was produced in 1921, and in 1929 Whitcomb designed and built the largest gasoline-electric locomotive that had then been offered our American railroads. This development was closely followed by the diesel-electrics which revolutionized the American transportation system; Industrial locomotives continued to be built under the Whitcomb name at Eddystone through the end of December 1952, when the name was dropped. Any Whitcomb locomotives built after that time carried the B-L-H identification.)
