Dickson Manufacturing Company

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Dickson Manufacturing Company was a manufacturer of boilers and steam engines used in various industries but most known in railway steam locomotives. It was in founded in Scranton, PA by Thomas Dickson in 1856.

The company maintained it's main offices and shops on Penn Avenue in Scranton, a locomotive shop at the "Cliff Works" in Scranton, a shop in Wilkes-Barre, and an office in New York City.

In 1901 the company was merged with seven other manufacturing firms to form American Locomotive Company (ALCO).

[edit] Preserved Dickson locomotives

The following locomotives (in serial number order) built by Dickson before the ALCO merger have been preserved.[1] All locations are in the United States unless stated otherwise.

The Dickson Manufacturing Company also designed and constructed steam powered mine cable hoists.

Serial number Wheel arrangement
(Whyte notation)
Build date Operational owner(s) Disposition
1005 0-6-2T August 1898 J. B. Levert #5 Enterprise Plantation, Patoutville, Louisiana

[edit] Notes

  1. ^  Sunshine Software, Steam Locomotive Information. Retrieved October 30, 2005.