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Schenectady Locomotive Works
Founded1848
FounderNorris Brothers
FateMerged
SuccessorAmerican Locomotive Company
Headquarters
Schenectady, New York
ProductsLocomotives
Footnotes / references
built the famous Jupiter

The Schenectady Locomotive Works built 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 in Schenectady, New York.

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.

Preserved Schenectady locomotives

The Southern Pacific Railroad Locomotive No. 1673 is a standard gauge 2-6-0, Mogul type M-4 class, steam locomotive built in 1900 by Schenectady Locomotive Works. It had a brief starring role in the 1954 film Oklahoma, for which it was fitted with a diamond stack and other turn of the century equipment and colors. It was also the star of Southern Pacific's 75th anniversary in Tucson, Arizona. The locomotive is on display in the Southern Arizona Transportation Museum, 414 N. Toole Ave.. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on January 9, 1992, ref.: #91001918.

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
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 Knoxville Locomotive Shops, 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 being restored to operation
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

See also

References

  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. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  2. ^ Sunshine Software. "Steam Locomotive Information." Retrieved October 30, 2005.
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