Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Vulcan Iron Works, based in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, manufactured railroad locomotives. The company was established in 1849 by Richard Jones, and ceased operation in 1954.Vulcan produced its first internal combustion locomotive in the 1920s; a total of 54 diesel-electric switcher units (each weighing 25 tons or more) came out of Vulcan''s shops between 1938 and 1954. Its largest unit was a 70-ton B-B unit built for Carnegie Steel Company in 1944. It also built a large number of gasoline powered locomotives with mechanical drives.