Saturday May 8, 2021 is National Train Day #NationalTrainDay If you think that all that went on in Paterson was the making of textiles, you would be missing Paterson’s role in the history of the American locomotive industry. Several circumstances helped Paterson become home to three important locomotive manufacturers. The first is that we needed machinists, blacksmiths and foundry-men in order to build the looms and other machines required to keep the cotton mills going. Then we have the fact th