Manchester Locomotive Works

Manchester Locomotive Works was a manufacturing company located in Manchester, New Hampshire, that built steam locomotives and fire engines in the 19th century. The first locomotive the company built was for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad in March 1855.^[1]

Manchester purchased the locomotive manufacturing operation from the Amoskeag Locomotive Works in 1859. It acquired the steam fire engine business from Amoskeag Locomotive in 1876.^[2]

In 1901, Manchester and seven other locomotive manufacturing firms merged to form American Locomotive Company (ALCO). Locomotive production ceased in 1913.

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Serial number	Wheel arrangement (Whyte notation)	Build date	Operational owner(s)	Disposition
unknown	0-2-2-0 (cog)	1875	Mount Washington Cog Railway #2	Mount Washington Cog Railway, Mount Washington, New Hampshire
unknown	0-2-2-0 (cog)	1878	Mount Washington Cog Railway #6	Mount Washington Cog Railway, Mount Washington, New Hampshire
unknown	0-2-2-0 (cog)	1883	Mount Washington Cog Railway #1	Mount Washington Cog Railway, Mount Washington, New Hampshire
unknown	0-2-2-0 (cog)	1883	Mount Washington Cog Railway #3	Mount Washington Cog Railway, Mount Washington, New Hampshire
unknown	0-2-2-0 (cog)	1883	Mount Washington Cog Railway #4	Mount Washington Cog Railway, Mount Washington, New Hampshire
unknown	0-2-2-0 (cog)	1892	Mount Washington Cog Railway #8	Mount Washington Cog Railway, Mount Washington, New Hampshire
1546	4-4-0	July 1892	Boston and Maine Railroad #494	Union Station, White River Junction, Vermont
unknown	0-4-0	ca. 1870s	Edison Cement Corporation #unknown	Purchased by Henry Ford in 1932 and rebuilt as a 4-4-0, currently operating at Greenfield Village, Dearborn, Michigan^[3]
unknown	4-4-0	ca. 1880s	Unknown #unknown	Discovered buried and unearthed in Mulberry, Florida in 2012, missing significant components such as cab, smokebox, pilot truck and tender. On display at the Mulberry Phosphate Museum.^[4]
49722	0-6-0	1911	Boston and Maine Railroad #410	On display in Lowell, Massachusetts at 410 Dutton St. Now owned by the Lowell Historic Preservation Commission.^[5] ^[6]
44369	2-6-0	November 1907	Boston and Maine Railroad #1455	Danbury Railroad Museum, Danbury, Connecticut

v t e Locomotive manufacturing predecessors of American Locomotive Company
1901 merger	Brooks Cooke Dickson Manchester Pittsburgh Rhode Island Richmond Schenectady
Later acquisitions	Montreal (1904) Rogers (1905)

v t e North American locomotive builders
Current	Alstom Altoona Works Brookville NREC Progress Rail EMD Railpower Siemens Wabtec GE Transportation MotivePower
Defunct	ALCO Alco-GE Atlas Baldwin Bombardier Brooks CLC Climax Cooke Davenport Dickson Fairbanks-Morse GMD Globe Grant Hinkley Jewett Lima Manchester Mason Milwaukee Montreal Mount Clare Shops Mount Savage Norris Pittsburgh Porter Plymouth Portland Rhode Island Roanoke Shops Richmond Rogers Schenectady St. Louis Taunton Tredegar Vulcan Westinghouse Whitcomb Willamette
See also: List of locomotive builders

Manchester Locomotive Works

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