Pittsburgh Locomotive and Car Works

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The Pittsburgh Locomotive and Car Works was a railroad equipment manufacturing company founded by Andrew Carnegie and T.N. Miller in 1865. It was located in Allegheny, Pennsylvania.

It produced its first locomotive in April 1867. Starting in the 1870s under its superintendent and general manager Daniel A. Wightman, it became known for its production of large locomotives. Its engines were shipped around the world, including to India and Japan.

By 1901, when Pittsburgh had merged with seven other manufacturing companies to form American Locomotive Company (ALCO), Pittsburgh had produced over 2,400 locomotives. In March 1919, ALCO closed the Pittsburgh facility.

[edit] Preserved Pittsburgh locomotives

Following is a list (in serial number order) of Pittsburgh locomotives built before the ALCO merger that have been spared the scrapper's torch.^[1]

Serial number	Wheel arrangement (Whyte notation)	Build date	Operational owner(s)	Disposition
unknown	4-6-0	circa. 1891	Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Class F-100 (number unknown). Sold circa. 1899 to Canadian Equipment Company and used on the construction of the National Transcontinental Railway, Canada's third transcontinental railway. Resold 1920 to Maritime Coal Ry. & Power Company #5. [2] Retired 1961 to Canadian Railway Museum.	Canadian Railway Museum, Delson, Quebec, Canada
1710	2-6-0	1897	Hankaku Railway #13 in Japan. Hankaku Railway was nationalized in 1906. She was renumbered #2851. The last owner was Jobu Railway.	Shinagawa, Tokyo
1815	2-6-0	1898	Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad #1175	Buffalo, Wyoming

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Sunshine Software, Steam Locomotive Information. Retrieved October 30, 2005.
2. ^ Steam Locomotives of the New York Central Lines (Edson & Vail), Vol 2, page 674. New York Central System Historical Society

[edit] External links

• American History Site
• SteamLocomotive.info list of extant ALCO-Pittsburgh locomotives.
• Maritime Railway site History of Maritime Railway and disposition of its locomotives.

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