Holman locomotive

The Holman Locomotive was Built by the Holman Locomotive Speeding Truck Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1887. Rather than the Holman Company turning down the idea they would turn what was an awful invention into a genius marketing scheme.
The Holman Locomotive is just a regular 4-4-0 engine but all the wheels had been put on-top of other wheels, which had been put on-top of other wheels and that 3rd set of wheels are on the track, so basically they were stacked wheels on wheels in this case.
== The Reasons to why it was built ==
The Reason why they made the engine was so they could attract investors to the company that was known for a stock market scam. so that if those investors fell for that scam they would give the Holman Company their money, so then Holman and his cohorts could run away with that said money never to be seen again.
= 1897 Holman Locomotive =
The Second Holman Locomotive was Built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for the Holman Locomotive Speeding Truck Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1897, there were no confirmed reasons to why it was built, but the Holman Company convinced the Baldwin Locomotive Works to manufacture it. 
== The Reasons to why it was built ==
The Reason why they made the engine was so they could attract investors to the company that was known for the same stock market scam that was pulled by Holman. so that if those investors fell for that scam they would give the Holman Company their money, so then Holman and his cohorts could run away with that said money never to be seen again.
== Fates ==
Despite their locomotive tests being a success, the overwhelming drawbacks and criticisms came in almost immediately, because the Holman Company refused admissions for their test runs to be a success and the flaws with the Holman Locomotive like chances of wheel-slip increasing, the locomotive being more likely to tip over on tight curves, Malfunctions in numerous gears in the speeding trucks or even making the locomotive top-heavy due to the height of the locomotive.
The Holman Company was seen as a stunt in Stock Fraud, in order to attract investors to the company that was known for a stock market scam and an unsuccessful Concept. When this truth was exposed to the public, hundreds of Railroad-men, mechanical engineers and Journalists had unleashed the fury of Criticism and outrage of the locomotive right in-front of the Holman Company.
Because of all of the criticisms that came into the Holman Locomotive Speeding Truck Company. The Holman Locomotive Speeding Truck Company had went out of business shortly after the criticisms and disappeared into obscurity where it was never seen again, Both Holman Locomotives that were modified with the Holman Trucks were rebuilt back into normal 4-4-0s and returned to their normal work, until they were scrapped after few more decades of work.
== The Criticisms ==
* The Holman Speeding Truck is founded upon the fallacy and does not have the meagre merit of novelty to recommend it. (Railway & Locomotive Engineering)
* The Holman Locomotive has not been taken serious by Railroad men, it appears to sensible men as a joke. (American Engineer and Railroad Journal).
* A triple set of wheels under a locomotive would be proposed by one who is densely ignorant of mechanics (Locomotive Engineering).
* The Holman Scheme is about as flagrant a piece of nonsense has ever pretended to be a locomotive (Railroad Gazette)
== Gallery ==
File:The Holman Locomotive.jpg|The 1887 Holman Locomotive
File:1897 Holman Locomotive.jpg|The 1897 Holman Locomotive
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