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Defunct locomotive manufacturers of the United States (47 P) B. Baldwin locomotives (3 C, 349 P, 2 F) Brooks locomotives (4 P) Brookville Equipment Corporation (2 C, 1 P)
This list of locomotive builders is ordered by country and includes 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.
United American Car, Cartersville, Georgia (to Thrall) United States Rolling Stock Company (1875–1893) Chicago Illinois [9] United States Railway Equipment (USRE) (1954–) Blue Island, Illinois [9] (to Evans) United Streetcar; US Car and Foundry; US Railcar; Vertex Railcar; Virginia Bridge & Iron Company (until 1920s) Roanoke, Virginia [9]
About 700 railroads operate common carrier freight service in the United States. There are about 160,141 mi (257,722 km) of railroad track in the United States, nearly all standard gauge. Reporting marks are listed in parentheses. [1] A&R Terminal Railroad (ART) Aberdeen and Rockfish Railroad (AR) Aberdeen, Carolina and Western Railway (ACWR)
Type or class Whyte classification Manufacturer Four-coupled switcher 0-4-0: Olomana 0-4-2 Forney 0-4-4 Six-coupled switcher 0-6-0 Eight-coupled switcher
In the United States, railroads are designated as Class I, Class II, or Class III, according to size criteria first established by the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) in 1911, and now governed by the Surface Transportation Board (STB). The STB's current definition of a Class I railroad was set in 1992, that being any carrier earning annual ...
Individual locomotives of the United States (315 P) Railway locomotives on the National Register of Historic Places (3 C, 44 P) Steam locomotives of the United States (3 C, 259 P)
The American Locomotive Company (often shortened to ALCO, ALCo or Alco) was an American manufacturer that operated from 1901 to 1969, initially specializing in the production of locomotives but later diversifying and fabricating at various times diesel generators, automobiles, steel, tanks, munitions, oil-production equipment, as well as heat exchangers for nuclear power plants.