Schenectady Locomotive Works

Defunct locomotive manufacturer in Schenectady, New York, United States

Schenectady Locomotive Works

Advertisement from the 1870s

Founded| 1848
Founder| Norris Brothers
Defunct| 1901
Fate| Merged
Successor| American Locomotive Company
Headquarters|

Schenectady, New York

Products| Locomotives
Footnotes / references
built the famous Jupiter

The Schenectady Locomotive Works was a factory in Schenectady, New York, that railroad locomotives from its founding in 1848 through its merger into American Locomotive Company (ALCO) in 1901.[1]

After the 1901 merger, ALCO made the Schenectady plant its headquarters.

One of the better-known locomotives to come out of the Schenectady shops was Central Pacific Railroad type 4-4-0 No. 60, the Jupiter (built in September 1868), one of two steam locomotives to take part in the "Golden Spike Ceremony" to celebrate the completion of the First transcontinental railroad. Although the original was scrapped in 1909, a full-scale, operating replica was completed in 1979, and now is part of an operational display at the Golden Spike National Historical Park.

## Preserved Schenectady locomotives

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Following is a list (in serial number order) of preserved Schenectady locomotives built before the ALCO merger.[2] All locations are in the United States unless otherwise noted.

Serial
no.  | Type
(Whyte notation) | Build date  | Operational owner(s)  | Disposition

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2409  | 0-6-0 | October 1887 | Outer Harbor Terminal Railway #2  | Los Angeles County Fairplex, Pomona, California
3114  | 2-8-0 | 1890 | Southern Railway #154 | Gulf and Ohio Railways, Knoxville, Tennessee \- She is operational.
4552  | 4-6-0 | June 1897 | Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad #15  | Abandoned in the Maine North Woods following Eagle Lake and West Branch Railroad service.
4807  | 4-8-0 | October 1898 | Southern Pacific Railroad #2914  | Kern County Museum, Bakersfield, California
5007  | 4-6-0 | March 1899 | Rio Grande Southern Railroad #20  | Colorado Railroad Museum, Golden, Colorado \- Recently restored to operation on July 2, 2020.
5103  | 2-6-0 | 1899 | Acadia Coal Company #42  | Museum of Industry, Stellarton, Nova Scotia, Canada
5129  | 2-8-0 | September 1899 | Northern Pacific Railway #25  | Civic Center, Butte, Montana
5613  | 4-4-2 | June 1900 | Chicago and North Western Railway #1015  | National Museum of Transport, Kirkwood, Missouri
5680  | 2-6-0 | November 1900 | Southern Pacific Railroad #1629  | Newhall, California
5683  | 2-6-0 | November 1900 | Southern Pacific Railroad #1673 | Southern Pacific Depot, Tucson, Arizona

## Gallery

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* The plant circa 1920.

* A Schenectady builder's plate of 1898 from Northern Pacific Railway class Y 2-8-0 #34.

* Boys going to work, 1910

* Southern Pacific Railroad Locomotive No. 1673 on display in the Southern Arizona Transportation Museum

* Replica of Central Pacific No. 60 Jupiter at Golden Spike N.H.P.

## See also

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* GE Transportation, Schenectady, NY; headquarters and Locomotive Division
* List of locomotive builders

## References

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1. ^ American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1904). "The American Locomotive Company: Schenectady Works". Schenectady Electrical Handbook. Schenectady, New York: General Electric Press. pp. 67–72.
2. ^ Sunshine Software. "Steam Locomotive Information." Retrieved October 30, 2005.

## External links

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Schenectady locomotives.

* Preserved Alco-Schenectady locomotive list

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Locomotive manufacturing predecessors of American Locomotive Company

1901 merger|

* Brooks
* Cooke
* Dickson
* Manchester
* Pittsburgh
* Rhode Island
* Richmond
* Schenectady

Later acquisitions|

* Montreal (1904)
* Rogers (1905)

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North American locomotive builders

Current|

* Alstom
* Altoona Works
* Brookville
* NREC
* Progress Rail
* EMD
* Railpower
* Siemens
* Wabtec
* GE Transportation
* MotivePower

Defunct|

* ALCO
* Alco-GE
* Atlas
* Baldwin
* Bombardier
* Brooks
* CLC
* Climax
* Cooke
* Davenport
* Dickson
* Fairbanks-Morse
* GMD
* Globe
* Grant
* Hinkley
* Jewett
* Lima
* Manchester
* Mason
* Milwaukee
* Montreal
* Mount Clare Shops
* Mount Savage
* Norris
* Pittsburgh
* Porter
* Portland
* Rhode Island
* Roanoke Shops
* Richmond
* Rogers
* Schenectady
* St. Louis
* Taunton
* Tredegar
* Vulcan
* Westinghouse
* Whitcomb
* Willamette

See also: List of locomotive builders
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