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In May 1989, Duckwall-ALCO filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy, emerging in 1991 after securing financing from GE Capital, its primary creditor. [3] At least 52 stores were closed during this period. After 1989 they switched to the business strategy of targeting communities where no direct retail competitor existed (such as Walmart , Target or Kmart ).
No. 1401 of the 1926 batch was salvaged from the scrap line in 1953, per advice from railfan Walter H. Thrall and SOU board member W. Graham Claytor Jr., who requested that the locomotive should be donated to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., since it was recognized to be one of the eight Ps-4 locomotives hauling the funeral ...
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.
ALCO were a major manufacturer of steam engines who eventually went out of business after the GE partnership failed. The ALCO MRS-1 model seen here was manufactured for the Army, with the requirement that it be able to operate on gauges of varying size (including the Russian 5 foot gauge, as opposed to the US standard 4 foot, 8 1/2 inch gauge).
The American Locomotive Company (ALCO), based in Schenectady, New York, United States produced a wide range of diesel-electric locomotives from its opening in 1901 until it ceased manufacture in 1969. This is a list of ALCO locomotive classes. For individually notable locomotives, please see List of locomotives. There are numerous individual ...
Texas State University: 38,759 38,231 37,864 37,812 38,187 38,644 38,694 ... Texas Higher Education Data This page was last edited on 12 November 2024, at 00 ...
Shaffer bought the oil field equipment business of Alco Products in 1962. [3] In 1968, Shaffer, except its Houston, Texas-based Bayport Fabrication division, was bought by Oakland-based Rucker Corporation for US$2.7 million [4] [5] and changed its name to Rucker Shaffer. [6] It was again sold in 1977 to National Lead, [2] which became known as ...
[15] [16] North Texas would leave the system the same year becoming independently governed North Texas State College. [17] North Texas would later become the flagship campus of the University of North Texas System. Similar name changes would result in Southwest Texas State College in 1959 and Sam Houston State College in 1965. [8] West Texas ...