This is a list of locomotive builders by country, including current and defunct builders. Many of the companies changed names over time; this list attempts to give the most recognisable name, generally the one used for the longest time or during the company's best-known period. __NOTOC__

Argentina

Active companies

* Grupo Emepa * Material Ferroviario S.A.

Defunct companies

Astarsa Astilleros Argentinos Río de La Plata S.A. (mostly known for its acronym ASTARSA, which can be roughly translated as ''Argentine Shipyards of Río de la Plata'') was an Argentine shipyard. Its core business was building and repairing ships and ...

Fábrica Argentina de Locomotoras Fábrica Argentina de Locomotoras (mostly known for its acronym FAdeL) was an Argentine manufacturer of rail vehicles which came about as a result of President Juan Perón's first five-year plan, which sought to expand national industries to reduc ...

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Australia

Australia imported its locomotives from the United Kingdom and United States until domestic production began, and even afterwards built many with U.S. and British mechanical equipment.

Active companies

* Downer Rail,

Cardiff Cardiff (; cy, Caerdydd ) is the capital and largest city of Wales. It forms a principal area, officially known as the City and County of Cardiff ( cy, Dinas a Sir Caerdydd, links=no), and the city is the eleventh-largest in the United Kingd ...

, Maryborough &

Newport Newport most commonly refers to: *Newport, Wales *Newport, Rhode Island, US Newport or New Port may also refer to: Places Asia *Newport City, Metro Manila, a Philippine district in Pasay Europe Ireland *Newport, County Mayo, a town on the ...

* UGL Rail,

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Ballarat Ballarat ( ) is a city in the Central Highlands (Victoria), Central Highlands of Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. At the 2021 Census, Ballarat had a population of 116,201, making it the third largest city in Victoria. Estimated resid ...

Epping Epping may refer to: Places Australia * Epping, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney ** Epping railway station, Sydney * Electoral district of Epping, the corresponding seat in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly * Epping Forest, Kearns, a he ...

, North Ryde,

Perth Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth is ...

Brisbane Brisbane ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the states and territories of Australia, Australian state of Queensland, and the list of cities in Australia by population, third-most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a populati ...

Defunct companies

* AE Goodwin, Granville * Avteq,

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* Cardiff Locomotive Workshops *

Chullora Railway Workshops Chullora Railway Workshops were a major workshops for the repair and heavy maintenance of locomotives and rolling stock for the New South Wales Government Railways. It was built on site at Chullora over 485 acres adjoining the main Sydney marshal ...

* Clyde Engineering, Granville, Kelso, Somerton, Eagle Farm,

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& Forrestfield, taken over by Evans Deakin Industries July 1996, became part of Downer Rail in March 2001 *

Comeng Commonwealth Engineering (often shortened to Com-Eng, later Comeng was an Australian engineering company that designed and built railway locomotives, rolling stock and trams. History Smith and Waddington, the predecessor to Commonwealth Engi ...

, Clyde,

Dandenong Dandenong is a southeastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, about from the Melbourne CBD. It is the council seat of the City of Greater Dandenong local government area, with a recorded population of 30,127 at the . Situated mainly ...

& Bassendean * EM Baldwin, Castle Hill (not the

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) - built mainly small sugar cane and

mining Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the Earth, usually from an ore body, lode, vein, seam, reef, or placer deposit. The exploitation of these deposits for raw material is based on the economic via ...

tram engines *

English Electric N.º UIC: 9094 110 1449-3 (Takargo Rail) The English Electric Company Limited (EE) was a British industrial manufacturer formed after the Armistice of 11 November 1918, armistice of World War I by amalgamating five businesses which, during th ...

Australia,

Rocklea Rocklea is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Rocklea had a population of 1,595 people. Geography Rocklea is located 9 kilometres south of the city. The west of the suburb is bordered by the Oxley Creek. The ...

Evans, Anderson, Phelan & Co Evans, Anderson, Phelan & Co was an Australian engineering and railway rolling stock manufacturer, located at Kangaroo Point, Queensland. It manufactured steam locomotives for the Queensland Railways until 1927. The works were not located near ...

, Kangaroo Point * Eveleigh Railway Workshops, Redfern * Islington Railway Workshops * James Martin & Co, Gawler *

Martin & King Martin & King was a manufacturing company based in Melbourne, Australia. The company specialised in motor vehicle bodies

, Somerton *

Midland Railway Workshops The Midland Railway Workshops in Midland, Western Australia, were the main workshops for the Western Australian Government Railways (WAGR) for over 80 years. History The first railway workshops in Western Australia were located at Fremantle an ...

* Mine Technic Australia * Morrison-Knudsen Australia * National Railway Equipment Company,

Islington Islington () is a district in the north of Greater London, England, and part of the London Borough of Islington. It is a mainly residential district of Inner London, extending from Islington's High Street to Highbury Fields, encompassing the ar ...

* North Ipswich Railway Workshops *

Perry Engineering Perry Engineering was a major foundry and steel engineering works in the state of South Australia. History Perry Engineering had its origins in 1899 when Samuel Perry purchased from the estate of James Wedlock the Cornwall Foundry on Hindley S ...

, Mile End * Phoenix Engine Company,

Ipswich Ipswich () is a port town and borough in Suffolk, England, of which it is the county town. The town is located in East Anglia about away from the mouth of the River Orwell and the North Sea. Ipswich is both on the Great Eastern Main Line r ...

* Springall & Frost,

* Tulloch Limited,

Rhodes Rhodes (; el, Ρόδος , translit=Ródos ) is the largest and the historical capital of the Dodecanese islands of Greece. Administratively, the island forms a separate municipality within the Rhodes regional unit, which is part of the So ...

* Walkers Limited, Maryborough *

Bombardier Transportation Bombardier Transportation was a Canadian-German rolling stock and rail transport manufacturer, headquartered in Berlin, Germany. It was one of the world's largest companies in the rail vehicle and equipment manufacturing and servicing industry ...

Australia,

Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...

Azerbaijan

Baku Carriage Repair Factory Baku Carriage Repair Factory (formerly ''Baku Repair Factory'' and ''Baku Carriage Repair Factory'') is an industrial enterprise located in Baku, Azerbaijan. History Pre-communist period The founder was German industrialist, Karl F. Eisenschm ...

* Baku Metro * STP-Wagon-Building Factory

Belgium

Active companies

* Alstom Charleroi – formerly ACEC Transport * Bombardier Transportation Brugge – formerly BN-Eurorail, formerly La Brugeoise et Nivelles

Defunct companies

* Ateliers de Tubize * John Cockerill – later Cockerill-Sambre * Ateliers de la Meuse * Société Anglo-Franco-Belge *

Brazil

* *

Mafersa Mafersa S.A. is a Brazilian manufacturer of passenger rail cars, buses and trolleybuses, and related components. It was founded in 1944 and was located in the city of São Paulo.Bushell, Chris (Ed.) (1997). ''Jane's Urban Transport Systems 199 ...

* EIF * EMD (Progress/ Caterpillar) * Wabtech (antes GE)

Bulgaria

* Express Service

Canada

Active companies

– Berlin-based division of

Alstom Alstom SA is a French multinational rolling stock manufacturer operating worldwide in rail transport markets, active in the fields of passenger transportation, signalling, and locomotives, with products including the AGV, TGV, Eurostar, Avelia ...

(no locomotives produced in Canada) * Railpower Technologies – Vancouver, British Columbia – subsidiary of

R.J. Corman Railroad Group R. J. Corman Railroad Group, LLC is a privately owned railroad services and short line operating company headquartered in Nicholasville, KY, with field locations in 22 states. It was owned by Richard J. Corman, who established the company in ...

since 2009

Defunct companies

Canadian Locomotive Company The Canadian Locomotive Company, commonly referred to as CLC, was a Canadian manufacturer of railway locomotives located in Kingston, Ontario. Its works were located on the south side of Ontario Street between William and Gore streets on Kingston' ...

– Kingston, Ontario – Fairbanks-Morse (Canada) Ltd 1965 and ceased operations 1969 * General Motors Diesel Division – London, Ontario – later as Electro-Motive Diesel Canadian operations and ceased production by Progress Rail in 2012 *

Montreal Locomotive Works Montreal Locomotive Works (MLW) was a Canadian railway locomotive manufacturer which existed under several names from 1883 to 1985, producing both steam and diesel locomotives. For a number of years it was a subsidiary of the American Locomotive ...

– Montreal, Quebec – formerly part of

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 ...

, acquired by

Bombardier Inc Bombardier Inc. () is a Canadian business jet manufacturer. It was also formerly a manufacturer of commercial jets, public transport vehicles, trains, and recreational vehicles, with the last being spun-off as Bombardier Recreational Prod ...

in 1975 but ended locomotive production 1985 * Urban Transportation Development Corporation – Toronto, Ontario – former Crown corporation

Chile

* Casagrande Motori

China

Active companies

* CRRC

Defunct companies

* China CNR - merged into CRRC * CSR Corporation Limited - merged into CRRC

Croatia

* Končar

Czech Republic

* ČKD (Českomoravská Kolben-Daněk) *

CZ LOKO CZ Loko is a Czech locomotive and railway vehicle repair, modernisation, and manufacturing company, based in Česká Třebová. History The company was founded as Českomoravská komerční společnost, in 1995, based in Nymburk. In 1999, th ...

Škoda Transportation Škoda Transportation a.s. is a Czech engineering company that continues the legacy of Škoda Works' rolling stock manufacturing that started at the end of 19th century in Plzeň. Following the first world war, the Works commenced locomotive pr ...

Škoda Works The Škoda Works ( cs, Škodovy závody, ) was one of the largest European industrial conglomerates of the 20th century, founded by Czech engineer Emil Škoda in 1859 in Plzeň, then in the Kingdom of Bohemia, Austrian Empire. It is the predece ...

Denmark

ABB Scandia ABB Ltd. is a Swedish-Swiss multinational corporation headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland. The company was formed in 1988 when Sweden's Allmänna Svenska Elektriska Aktiebolaget (ASEA) and Switzerland's Brown, Boveri & Cie merged to create ...

* Frichs * Pedershaab * Triangel

Finland

Lokomo Oy Lokomo Ab was a Finnish manufacturer of railroad equipment and steam locomotives, situated in Tampere, Finland. The company was founded in 1915 by a group of Finnish businesspeople, including Jalmar Castrén and Emil Aaltonen. The Lokomo fac ...

Rautaruukki Rautaruukki Oyj using the marketing name Ruukki is a Finnish company, headquartered in Helsinki, which manufactures and supplies metal-based components and systems to the construction and engineering industries. In 2014 Swedish SSAB bought Ruukki. ...

Oyj *

Saalasti Kerttu Saalasti ( Kallio; 21 September 1907 – 31 January 1995) was a Finnish politician who was the Finland Minister of Education from 1954 to 1956 and from May 1957 to November 1957. She was the first female Minister of Education in Finland, ...

Oy * Škoda Transtech *

Tampella Oy Tampella Ab was a Finnish heavy industry manufacturer, a maker of paper machines, locomotives, military weaponry, as well as wood-based products such as packaging. The company was based mainly in the Naistenlahti district of the city of ...

* Valmet * Valtionrautatiet (Finnish State Railways)

France

Commercial manufacturers

* Alcard, Buddicom et Cie. * Alsthom (now

) *

Anciens Établissements Cail The Société Anonyme des Anciens Établissements Cail was created in 1883 with a capital of 20,000 francs. It succeeds the Société J. F. Cail & Cie then in liquidation which manufactured locomotives (2,360 between 1845 and 1889 including the f ...

– 1883–1898, became SFCM * André Koechlin et Cie. – to SACM in 1872 * Ateliers du Nord de la France (ANF) – also known as Blanc-Misseron; acquired by

in 1989 *

Brissonneau and Lotz Brissonneau et Lotz was a French locomotive engineering company, engaged in the manufacture of railway locomotives and wagons. The company was also a supplier of rolling stock to the Paris Metro, constructing in 1951 the first metro trains in the ...

– acquired by Alstom in 1972 * Buffault et Robatel * Charbonniers et Cie. * CFD *

Compagnie des forges et aciéries de la marine et d'Homécourt The Compagnie des forges et aciéries de la marine et d'Homécourt (FAMH) (Company of marine forges and steelworks and of Homécourt) was a French industrial enterprise that made iron and steel products for the French navy, army and railroads. It ...

* Compagnie Electro-Méchanique – acquired by Alstom in 1985 * Compagnie générale de construction de locomotives – , Nantes, founded 1917 * Corpet-Louvet – 1889–1952 * Etablissment Cavé – to Charbonniers et Cie. in 1854 * Etablissment Claprède *

Fives-Lille Fives-Lille was a French engineering company located at Fives, a suburb of Lille. It is now part of the Fives Group. History The company began as in 1861 and made a joint venture with the Société J. F. Cail & Cie. and were of Belgian orig ...

– merged into

Fives-Lille Cail Fives-Lille was a French engineering company located at Fives, a suburb of Lille. It is now part of the Fives Group. History The company began as in 1861 and made a joint venture with the Société J. F. Cail & Cie. and were of Belgian orig ...

in 1958 * Schneider et Cite. – now Schneider Electric *

Société Alsacienne de Constructions Mécaniques The Société Alsacienne de Constructions Mécaniques (the Alsatian Corporation of Mechanical Engineering), or SACM, is an engineering company with its headquarters in Mulhouse, Alsace, which produced railway locomotives, textile and printing machi ...

(SACM) * – 1836–1848, became Société J. F. Cail & Cie. *

Société de Construction des Batignolles The Société de Construction des Batignolles was a civil engineering company of France created in 1871 as a public limited company from the 1846 limited partnership of ''Ernest Gouin et Cie.''. Initially founded to construct locomotives, the com ...

, Paris – founded 1871, ceased locomotive production 1928, merged into Spie Batignolles in 1968 *

Société française de constructions mécaniques Lactalis is a French multinational dairy products corporation, owned by the Besnier family and based in Laval, Mayenne, France. The company's former name was Besnier SA. Lactalis is the largest dairy products group in the world, and is the sec ...

(SFCM) – created in 1898, merged into Fives-Lille Cail in 1958 * Société Franco-Belge * Société J. F. Cail & Cie. – 1850–1883, became Anciens Établissements Cail * Société Nouvelle des Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée

Railway company workshops

* Arles (1899–1904) – PLM * La Chapelle, Paris – Chemins de Fer du Nord * Épernay (1854–1970) – Chemins de fer de l'Est * Hellennes, Lille – Chemins de Fer du Nord * Ivry – PLM * Nîmes (1856–1858) –

Chemin de fer de Lyon à la Méditerranée The Chemin de fer de Lyon à la Méditerranée was a short-lived railway company in the south of France. It was formed in 1852 and merged in 1857 with the Chemin de fer de Paris à Lyon and others to form the Chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à ...

, later

Chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée The Compagnie des chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée ("Railway Company of Paris to Lyon and the Mediterranean"), also known as the Chemins de fer Paris-Lyon-Méditerranée or simply PLM, established in 1857, was one of Fran ...

(PLM) * Ouillins (1863–1914) – PLM * Paris (1909–1920) – PLM * Sotteville,

Rouen Rouen (, ; or ) is a city on the River Seine in northern France. It is the prefecture of the Regions of France, region of Normandy (administrative region), Normandy and the Departments of France, department of Seine-Maritime. Formerly one of ...

– Chemins de fer de l'Ouest from 1909) * Vilnius locomotive repair depot

Georgia

Germany

Active companies

* * Interlock steam * * *

Schöma Schöma is a company based in Diepholz, Germany, specialising in the construction of small diesel locomotives. After Christoph Schöttler left his father's business, the :de:Diepholzer Maschinenfabrik Fritz Schöttler, Diepholzer Maschinenfabrik ...

* Siemens Mobility * Voith *

Vossloh Vossloh AG is a rail technology company based in Werdohl in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The SDAX-listed group has achieved sales of around €930 million in 2016 with more than 4,000 employees (as of 2017). Vossloh is a global ...

* Windhoff

Defunct companies

* Adtranz – now part of Bombardier *

AEG Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft AG (AEG; ) was a German producer of electrical equipment founded in Berlin as the ''Deutsche Edison-Gesellschaft für angewandte Elektricität'' in 1883 by Emil Rathenau. During the Second World War, AEG ...

– now part of Bombardier * AG Vulcan Stettin *

Berliner Maschinenbau Berliner Maschinenbau AG was a German manufacturer of locomotives. The factory was founded by Louis Victor Robert Schwartzkopff on 3 October 1852 as ''Eisengießerei und Maschinen-Fabrik von L. Schwartzkopff'' in Berlin. History The facto ...

Gmeinder Gmeinder GmbH was a German locomotive and engineering company based in Mosbach. Its products included diesel engines, small locomotives (shunters) and other railway locomotive parts. Much of its business came through the German railways, though it ...

Hanomag Hanomag (Hannoversche Maschinenbau AG, ) was a German producer of steam locomotives, tractors, trucks and military vehicles in Hanover. Hanomag first achieved international fame by delivering numerous steam loc