Schenectady Locomotive Works
The Schenectady Locomotive Works built railroad locomotives from its founding in 1848 through its merger into American Locomotive Company (ALCO) in 1901.[1]
 Advertisement from the 1870s | |
| Founded | 1848 |
|---|---|
| Founder | Norris Brothers |
| Defunct | 1901 |
| Fate | Merged |
| Successor | American Locomotive Company |
| Headquarters | |
| Products | Locomotives |
| Footnotes / references built the famous Jupiter | |
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. 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 Historic Site.
Preserved Schenectady locomotives
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 | 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
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.S.
See also
- GE Transportation, Schenectady, NY; headquarters and Locomotive Division
- List of locomotive builders
References
- American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1904). "The American Locomotive Company: Schenectady Works". Schenectady Electrical Handbook. Schenectady, New York: General Electric Press. pp. 67–72.
- Sunshine Software. "Steam Locomotive Information." Retrieved October 30, 2005.
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