Schenectady Locomotive Works

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A Schenectady builder's plate, 1898.
A Schenectady builder's plate, 1898.

The Schenectady Locomotive Works built railroad locomotives from the mid 19th century through its merger into ALCO in 1901.

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 early 1869), one of two steam locomotives to take part in the "Golden Spike Ceremony" to celebrate the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad.

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[edit] Preserved Schenectady locomotives

Following is a list (in serial number order) of preserved Schenectady locomotives built before the ALCO merger.[1] All locations are in the United States unless otherwise noted.

Serial number Wheel arrangement
(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 Chilhowee Park, Knoxville, Tennessee
4552 4-6-0 June 1897 Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad #15 Forrestry Camp, Eagle Lake, Maine
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
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

[edit] Notes

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

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