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Steam Locomotive Builders Page Contents: The art of steam locomotive design and manufacturing in North America was concentrated in three very successful companies; the American Locomotive Company, the Baldwin Locomotive Works and the Lima Locomotive Works.

. American Locomotive Company American Locomotive Company (ALCO) was formed in 1901 when seven smaller locomotive builders merged with the Schenectady Locomotive Works (Schenectady, NY) in order to compete against the largest locomotive builder of the day, the Baldwin Locomotive Works.

. The seven locomotive builders were: Brooks Locomotive Works - Dunkirk, NY Cooke Locomotive & Machine Works - Paterson, NJ Dickson Manufacturing Company - Scranton, PA Manchester Locomotive Works - Manchester, NH Pittsburgh Locomotive & Car Works - Pittsburgh, PA Rhode Island Locomotive Works - Providence, RI Richmond Locomotive Works - Richmond, VA In 1902, the Locomotive & Machine Co.

. located in Montreal, Canada joined and later changed its name to the Montreal Locomotive Works.

Steam Locomotive Information

. 34 B&A Springfield Shops 1 B&MR Havelock Shops 3 B&O Mount Clare Shops 8 B&P Roxbury Shops 1 B/Seekings 1 Bagnall 3 Baguley 1 Baldwin Locomotive Works 606 Barclay 4 Bassett-Lowke 1 Batignoles 1 Berliner Maschinenbau AG 6 Beyer Peacock & Co.

. 1 Brighton 49 Brooks Locomotive Works 8 Bruce Groininger 1 Brush Electrical Engineering Co.

. 3 Darlington 13 Datong Locomotive Works 1 Davenport Locomotive Works 51 Davey Paxman 8 Davies & Metcalfe 1 De Winton 5 Decauville 3 Derby 16 Dickson Manufacturing Co.

. 2 Doncaster Works 11 Dubs & Co.

. 5 George Reddington 2 Gibb & Hogg 1 GKN Sankey 1 Glover Machine Works 6 Gooch 1 Gorton Works 2 Grant Locomotive Works 2 Grant, Richie 1 GTR Point St.

. 3 Heisler Locomotive Works 42 Henry Vale 1 Henschel 58 Heywood 1 Hinckley & Drury 1 Horwich 10 Hudswell Clarke & Co.

. 1 Hughes Locomotive & Tramway Engine Works 1 Humbolt 1 Hunslet Engine Co.

. 123 IC Paducah Shops 2 Ipswich Railway Workshops 9 Islington Workshops 4 J.A.

. 6 Johnson Machine Works 1 Jung 1 Kerr Stuart & Co.

Steam Locomotive Information

. Baldwin Locomotive Works 606 H.K.

. Porter 252 Unknown 182 Lima Locomotive Works 147 Swindon 144 Alco (Schenectady) 126 Hunslet Engine Co.

. 123 Andrew Barclay & Son 122 Vulcan Iron Works 103 Beyer Peacock & Co.

. 98 Orenstein & Koppel 75 Peckett & Sons 75 Robert Stephenson & Hawthorn 71 Montreal Locomotive Works 70 Alco (Cooke) 65 W.G.

. 53 Davenport Locomotive Works 51 Brighton 49 North British Locomotive Co.

. 48 Heisler Locomotive Works 42 Crewe 40 Dubs & Co.

. 16 Derby 16 Krauss 15 Alco (Richmond) 15 Rogers Locomotive Works 14 Vulcan Foundry 14 Darlington 13 Alco 13 Unk 13 Clyde Engineering 12 CPR Angus Shops 12 Vulcan Foundry Ltd.

. 12 Doncaster Works 11 James Martin 11 PRR Juniata Shops 11 Kitson & Co.

. 11 NSW Government Railways 11 Horwich 10 Schenectady Locomotive Works 10 Ashford 10 Ipswich Railway Workshops 9 Fabryka Lokomotyw 9 Sharp, Stewart Co.

. 8 Brooks Locomotive Works 8 D&RGW Burnham Shops 8 B&O Mount Clare Shops 8 NZR Addington 8 Krupp 7 Arnold Jung 7 Manchester Locomotive Works 7 Western Australia Government Railways 7 Nine Elms 7 Sandley Light Railway Works 6 Berliner Maschinenbau AG 6 John Fowler & Co.

The History of Alco Locomotive #300

. -- Built: 1924 by Alco (American Locomotive Company) at it's Cooke Works plant in Patterson, NJ -- Configuration: 2-6-0 Mogul -- Builder number: 65200 -- Road number: 300 -- Cylinders: 16" (bore) x 24" (stroke) -- Boiler Pressure: 165 psi -- Diameter of Drivers: 46" -- Tractive Effort: 18, 500 lb.

. -- ALCO History: Cook Locomotive and Machine Works was originally started in 1852 as Danforth-Cook.

. In 1901, Cook Locomotive and Machine Works merged with 7 other locomotive manufacturing plants to form American Locomotive Company in an effort to compete with locomotive building giant, Baldwin Locomotive Works.

. After the merger, the Cook shops were simply referred to as Cook Works.

. The 8 locomotive plants that merged to create ALCO was; Schenectady Locomotive Works- Schenectady, NY; Brooks Locomotive Works- Dunkirk, NY; Cook Locomotive & Machine Works- Patterson, NY; Dickson Manufacturing Company- Scranton, PA; Manchester Locomotive Works- Manchester, NH; Pittsburgh Locomotive & Car Works- Pittsburgh, PA; Rhode Island Locomotive Works- Providence, RI; Richmond Locomotive Works- Richmond, VA During it's 74 years in service the Cook plant built over 3000 steam locomotives.

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Potomac Eagle Scenic Railroad - Where Eagles Fly!

. Built in 1950 by Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Company of Chicago, Ill., Pullman Car Works and ordered in 1946 by the Pere Marquette Railroad of Michigan, this lunch counter, buffet-bar lounge car was modeled after floor plan #7596.

Mad River & NKP Museum - List of Buildings, Rolling Stock, & Displays

. B&O SWITCH ENGINE 0-6-0 This was built by Brooks Locomotive Works in Dunkirk, NY for the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railway in 1904.

. In 1993, Operation Lifesaver donated funds, materials, and VCR/TV to turn this car into an educational workshop on railroad safety.

. crane with a 200 ton capacity, was built by Industrial Works of Bay City, Michigan in 1923.

AmericanHeritage.com / Was This America’s First Steamboat, Locomotive, and Car?

. An amphibious tourist bus drove 40 enthusiasts past the place where Evans’s factory once stood (now a parking lot), twice around City Hall (which 200 years ago was the site of Philadelphia’s new Centre Square waterworks), and then into the Delaware River.

. Evans had no particular interest in dredges, but he was fixated on finding a use for his steam engine, so why not take advantage of the opportunity? Latrobe had built Philadelphia’s waterworks with what Evans thought of as an old-fashioned, low-pressure steam engine.

. On July 13 he wrote that the “machine is now to be seen moving around the Centre Square.” Centre Square, about five blocks from Evans’s shop, was the location of Latrobe’s new waterworks building.

. Another question: Assuming his story is true, why did he bother to take his boat down the Schuylkill and then up the Delaware when delivering the Orukter directly to the Delaware would have been so much shorter? Part of the reason is geography: It’s downhill from the waterworks to the Schuylkill.

OSN 161 contents

. 4, included in OSN 161: Sunset Models (B&O EM-1 articulated); Locomotive Workshop (updated Lobaugh Climax kit); Stevenson Preservation Lines (updated Baldwin Model Locomotive Co.

. Fairbanks Morse 2000 HP road switcher and updated Lobaugh Mikado); Weaver Models (4-bay, high side hopper; 0-8-0; Pullman-Bradly deluxe coaches; and RS-3 and RSD-4/5 diesel locomotives); Custom Signals (signal controller); Clifton Backshop Services (tools including GBS benchmate line; casting service; P:48 conversions); Auel Industries (200-ton flat car kit, all metal — choice of Andrews or Dalman trucks); "O" Scale Realty (museum-quality custom built structures; Tenafly Railroad Station); Keil-Line Products (kit for an on-board battery charger for ni-cad batteries); The Car Works (Indianapolis Railways Peter Witt streetcars in two series); Champion Decal Company (FINAL catalog; Overland Models, Inc.

. (brass signal towers); Norm's O Scale/Trains & More! (C/P Atlas: Maine Central SW-9s; Maine Central wide-vision caboose; Bar Mills Scale Model Works (laser-cut wood billboard and rooftop sign kits); Ultra Scale II (resin kit: PRR X-31; 10"x8" Centerville Bank Building kit); Westport Model Works (scale structure drawings; light cast-plastic seats); Doyleston Car Company (1:48 St.

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. Alco Centennial Via The Bridge Line Historical Society Bulletin May 26, 2001 will be the official centennial of the American Locomotive Company, which was a combination of ten locomotive companies: Brooks Locomotive Works; Cooke Locomotive & Machine Works; Dickson Locomotive Works; Manchester Locomotive Works; Montreal Locomotive Works; Pittsburgh Locomotive & Car Works; Rhode Island Locomotive Works; Richmond Locomotive & Machine Works; and Schenectady Locomotive Works.