A postcard depiction of the General Motors Electro-Motive Division plant at LaGrange, Illinois, circa 1937. Click to enlarge.
(J.G. Stoll Company, Chicago, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
LOCOMOTIVE BUILDERS
U.S.A. Active Companies
Brookville Equipment Corporation
Process Locomotives
Harsco Corporation (now Enviri)
Katiland Trains - (see Western Train Co.)
Kloke Locomotive Works
Merrick Light Railway
Motive Power & Equipment Solutions
National Railway Equipment Company
NS Juniata Locomotive Shop (Thoroughbred Mechanical Services)
Quality Rail Service Corporation
RELCO Locomotives - (see Wabtec)
Republic Transportation Systems (Republic Locomotive)
Train Rides Unlimited
Tweetsie Railroad - official source for Crown Metal Products parts
Western Train Co - Amusement Rides Manufacturer specializing in Locomotives, Carousels, and Railroad Installation
U.S.A. Defunct Companies
In addition to these, many railroads operating steam locomotives built locomotives in their shops. Notable examples include the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Mount Clare Shops, Norfolk and Western's Roanoke Shops, Pennsylvania Railroad's Altoona Works and the Southern Pacific's Sacramento Shops. An estimate of total steam locomotive production in the United States is about 175,000 engines, including nearly 70,000 by Baldwin.
American Locomotive Company (ALCO)
Amoskeag Locomotive Works
Appomattox Locomotive Works – operated by Uriah Wells
Atlas Car and Manufacturing Company
Baldwin Locomotive Works – later known as Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton
Bell Locomotive Works – New York City and Bloomsburg, PA
Brooks Locomotive Works - to ALCO in 1901
Burr and Ettinger
Cagney Bros. – also known as Miniature Railway Company
Cincinnati Locomotive Works – also known as Harkness and as Moore & Richardson
Cooke Locomotive and Machine Works - began as Danforth Locomotive & Machine Co., later Danforth, Cooke, & Co., to ALCO in 1901
Covington Locomotive Works
Custom Fabricators
Denmead
Dickson Manufacturing Company - to ALCO in 1901
Dunkirk Engineering Company
Eastwick and Harrison
Euclid Road Machinery Company
U.S.A. Defunct Companies (Cont.)
Globe Locomotive Works
Glover Locomotive Works
H.K. Porter, Inc. – Smith & Porter, later Porter, Bell & Co.
Hicks Locomotive and Car Works
Hinkley Locomotive Works
Hurlbut Amusement Co.
J. G. Brill (Interurbans Streetcars)
Kentucky Locomotive Works
Lancaster Locomotive Works
Lawrence Machine Shop
Lima Locomotive Works – later Lima-Hamilton, then Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton
Locks and Canals Machine Shop
Lowell Machine Shop
Manchester Locomotive Works - to ALCO in 1901
Mason Machine Works
McQueen Locomotive Works
Mount Savage Locomotive Works
Nashville Manufacturing Company
New Castle Manufacturing Company
New Jersey Locomotive and Machine Company – began as Swinburne, Smith and Company
New York Locomotive Works – also known as Breese, Kneeland & Company
Niles and Company
Ottaway Amusement Company
Pittsburgh Locomotive and Car Works - to ALCO in 1901
Portland Company
Rhode Island Locomotive Works - to ALCO in 1901
Richmond Locomotive Works - to ALCO in 1901
Roanoke East End Shops
Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works – began as Rogers, Ketchum & Grosvenor, to ALCO in 1905
Rome Locomotive Works – New York
Ross Winans Locomotive Works
Schenectady Locomotive Works - later became American Locomotive Company (ALCO)
Swinburne, Smith and Company
Sygnet Rail Technologies
T. H. Paul & Sons
Talbott and Brother Iron Works
Taunton Locomotive Manufacturing Company
Tredegar Iron Works
Union Iron Works
Virginia Locomotive and Car Works – also known as Smith & Perkins
Vulcan Iron Works
Wasatch Railroad Contractors – builder of brand-new 15 in (381 mm) gauge Cagney replica steam locomotives
West Point Foundry
Westinghouse Electric Corporation (WEMCO)
Ernst Wiener Co., New York
Wilmarth
Canada Active companies
Bombardier Transportation – Berlin-based division of Alstom (no locomotives produced in Canada)
Railpower Technologies – Vancouver, British Columbia – subsidiary of R.J. Corman Railroad Group since 2009
Canada Defunct companies
Canadian Locomotive Company – Kingston, Ontario – Fairbanks-Morse (Canada) Ltd 1965 and ceased operations 1969
General Motors Diesel Division – London, Ontario – later as Electro-Motive Diesel Canadian operations and ceased production by Progress Rail in 2012
Montreal Locomotive Works – Montreal, Quebec – formerly part of American Locomotive Company, acquired by Bombardier Inc in 1975 but ended locomotive production 1985
Urban Transportation Development Corporation – Toronto, Ontario – former Crown corporation
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