American Locomotive Company Manchester New Hampshire 1912

Manchester Locomotive Works was a manufacturing company located in

Manchester, New Hampshire Manchester is a city in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States. It is the most populous city in New Hampshire. At the 2020 census, the city had a population of 115,644. Manchester is, along with Nashua, one of two seats of New Hamp ...

, that built

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and

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s in the 19th century. The first locomotive the company built was for the

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in March 1855. Manchester_Locomotive_Works_ad_1882

Manchester purchased the locomotive manufacturing operation from the

Amoskeag Locomotive Works The Amoskeag Locomotive Works, in Manchester, New Hampshire, built steam locomotives at the dawn of the railroad era in the United States. The locomotive works operated as a division of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company between 1848 and 1859. ...

in 1859. It acquired the steam fire engine business from Amoskeag Locomotive in 1876. In 1901, Manchester and seven other locomotive manufacturing firms merged to form

American Locomotive Company The American Locomotive Company (often shortened to ALCO, ALCo or Alco) was an American manufacturer of locomotives, diesel generators, steel, and tanks that operated from 1901 to 1969. The company was formed by the merger of seven smaller locomo ...

(ALCO). Locomotive production ceased in 1913.

Preserved Manchester locomotives

The following locomotives (listed in serial number order) built by Manchester before the ALCO merger have been preserved. All locations are in the

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unless otherwise noted. File:Mount Washington Cog Railway Ammonoosuc.jpg, Mount Washington Cog Railway #2 Ammonoosuc. File:410 B&M Lowell.jpg, B&M #410 was built for the Boston & Maine Railroad by the Manchester Locomotive Works in Manchester, NH, in 1911. File:DRM; B&M 1455 with Christmas Lights.jpg,

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1455 on display at the Danburry Railway Museum. File:B&M 494 at White River Junction station, July 2006.jpg,

#494 on display at

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. File:Mulberry Phosphate Museum - Steam Locomotive 2.jpg, 1880s built locomotive at the Mulberry Phosphate Museum.

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