American Locomotive Company

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The American Locomotive Company was incorporated in 1901 by merging 7 small locomotive companies with the Schenectady Locomotive Engine Manufactory (incorprated 1848). In 1955, the company changed its name to Alco Products, Incorporated. In 1964, the Worthington Corporation Acquired Alco. Alco has headquarters in New York City and a main plant in Schenectady, N.Y., with other plants in Auburn and Dunkirk, N.Y., and Latrobe, Pa. Alco's Schenectady facilities have affiliations with General Electric Company there.

Alco's main products have been Steam Locomotives, Diesel-Electric Locomotives, Diesel Engines and Generators, Specialized Forgings, High-Quality Steel, and Armed Tanks. Alco also made some short-lived ventures into automobiles and nuclear energy in the early days of those industries.

From the guide to the American Locomotive Company Records, 1872-1969, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries)
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Role Title Holding Repository
creatorOf [Alco marque file. 1909]. Western Reserve Historical Society, Research Library
referencedIn Copelof, Maxwell, 1879-. Papers, 1940-1954 Harvard Law School Library Langdell Hall Cambridge, MA 02138
referencedIn Perry Egbert Papers, 1911-1987, 1925-1945 Syracuse University. Library. Special Collections Research Center
creatorOf Rees, David I. Rees scrapbook of the Tucson, Cornelia, and Gila Bend Locomotive 51, 1913-1916. Museum of New Mexico Library
referencedIn Historical Society of Dunkirk (Dunkirk, N.Y.). Local history collection, [ca. 1800]-1987. New York State Historical Documents (Albany, N.Y.)
referencedIn Wilmington Trust Company. Trust Dept. Investment analysis files ("A"), 1909-1959 (bulk 1931-1954). Hagley Museum & Library
referencedIn Sperry, Elmer Ambrose, 1860-1930. Papers, 1876-1931. Hagley Museum & Library
referencedIn Burg, Thomas E. Letter : to Latah County Historical Society, Moscow, Jan. 19, 1987. University of Idaho Library
referencedIn General Electric Company. Trade catalogs, 1926-1961. Hagley Museum & Library
referencedIn United States. Wage Stabilization Board, 1952. Transcript of the hearing before the Wage Stabilization Board, 1952. American Locomotive Company and the United Steelworkers of America. Cornell University Library
creatorOf American Locomotive Company. Trade literature, 1944-1948. Hagley Museum & Library
creatorOf [Alco marque file. 1913]. Western Reserve Historical Society, Research Library
referencedIn Barbieri, Anthony,. Oral history interview with Anthony Barbieri, Dominick Ferro, and Thomas Fivey. [manuscript]. 1967. Pennsylvania State University Libraries
referencedIn Newsom, Earl, 1897-1973. Papers, 1934-1992. Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project
referencedIn Drexel, Anthony J. (Anthony Joseph), 1826-1893. Records of the Morgan firms, 1863-1952. Pierpont Morgan Library.
referencedIn Brooks Locomotive Works (Dunkirk, N.Y.). Records, 1869-1980. New York State Historical Documents (Albany, N.Y.)
referencedIn United Locomotive Workers Union. United Locomotive Workers Union newsletters and fliers, 1937-1939. Pennsylvania State University Libraries
referencedIn Portrait Photograph Collection, 1930-1940 Baker Library, Harvard Business School
referencedIn Hegg, Eric A., 1867-1948. Eric A. Hegg Copper River Railway photographs, 1908-1910 [graphic]. University of Washington. Libraries
referencedIn Fogg, Howard. Records, 1940-1987. Denver Public Library, Central Library
creatorOf J.P. Morgan & Co. American Locomotive Co. subscription : syndicate records, 1901 June 5. Pierpont Morgan Library.
referencedIn Copelof, Maxwell, 1897-. Arbitration files, ca. 1940-ca. 1970. Cornell University Library
referencedIn Historical Society of Dunkirk (Dunkirk, N.Y.). Blueprints, 1906-1943. Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library
referencedIn New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Records, undated, 1760-1980 Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Center.
referencedIn Maxwell Copelof arbitration files, ca. 1940-ca. 1970. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives
referencedIn Eric A. Hegg Copper River Railway Photograph Album, 1908-1910 University of Washington Libraries Special Collections
referencedIn Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Miscellaneous publications and ephemera, 1851-1969 (bulk, 1918-1960). Hagley Museum & Library
creatorOf A. Groetzinger & Sons. Trade catalogs of railroads, 1857-1947. University of California, Santa Barbara, UCSB Library
referencedIn United States. Wage Stabilization Board. American Locomotive Company and the United Steelworkers of America Hearing Transcript, 1952. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives
creatorOf American Locomotive Company Records, 1872-1969 Syracuse University. Library. Special Collections Research Center
referencedIn [Locomotives and railroad equipment. : Pamphlet box.]. HCL Technical Services, Harvard College Library
referencedIn Nutting, Louis B. Foster Wheeler Corporation v. American Locomotive Company, et al, 1931. Harvard Law School Library Langdell Hall Cambridge, MA 02138
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associatedWith Alco Products, Incorporated. corporateBody
associatedWith American Locomotive Automobile Company. corporateBody
associatedWith Barbieri, Anthony, person
associatedWith Brooks Locomotive Works (Dunkirk, N.Y.) corporateBody
associatedWith Burg, Thomas E. person
associatedWith Copelof, Maxwell. person
associatedWith Copelof, Maxwell, 1897- person
associatedWith Egbert, Perry T. person
associatedWith Fogg, Howard. person
associatedWith General Electric Company. corporateBody
associatedWith Hegg, Eric A., 1867-1948. person
associatedWith Historical Society of Dunkirk (Dunkirk, N.Y.) corporateBody
associatedWith Historical Society of Dunkirk (Dunkirk, N.Y.) corporateBody
associatedWith J.P. Morgan & Co. corporateBody
associatedWith Newsom, Earl, 1897-1973. person
associatedWith Pennsylvania Railroad Company. corporateBody
associatedWith Rees, David I. person
associatedWith Schenectady Locomotive Engine Manufactory. corporateBody
associatedWith Sperry, Elmer Ambrose, 1860-1930. person
associatedWith United Locomotive Workers Union. corporateBody
associatedWith United States. Wage Stabilization Board, 1952. corporateBody
associatedWith Wilmington Trust Company. Trust Dept. corporateBody
associatedWith Worthington Corporation. corporateBody
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