# Ateliers de construction de La Meuse

Ateliers de construction de La Meuse (French: La société anonyme des Ateliers de construction de La Meuse) are a manufacturing and engineering company based in Liège in Belgium. During the period from 1888 to 1958, La Meuse built 1350 steam locomotives some for Belgian State Railways (later NMBS/SNCB), and many more for industrial networks. Of these a substantial number survive worldwide.
The company still exists today, focusing on boilermaking, mechanics and the assembly of large-scale machinery. They have facilities in Sclessin and Seraing.

## History

The origins of the business date back to the 16th century. During 1835 Charles Marcellis, forge master, moved his business to La Boverie, Liège. The company was set up as Société Anonyme des Ateliers de la Meuse. In 1872, the name was changed to Société Anonyme des Ateliers de construction de La Meuse. These new workshops were erected on the site they currently occupy between the Meuse river and the Paris-Namur-Liége-Cologne rail line. Expansion followed so that they occupied an area of about ten hectares. The company produced heavy industrial equipment for mining and metallurgy. The first locomotives were built in 1887 for the SNCV, and La Meuse would be the last company to deliver a steam locomotive to NMBS/SNCB.
In 1889, there was produced a narrow gauge locomotive for an industrial user. They went on to eventually build over 800 locomotives for industrial users. Their customers were mostly Belgium, but also Italy, Yugoslavia, Morocco, Congo, Romania, Turkey, Spain, Latin America and the Netherlands.

## Locomotives
### Belgian State Railways

* Type 8
* Type 9
* Type 10
* Type 11
* Type 12
* Type 23
* Type 25
* Type 29
* Type 32/32S
* Type 36
* Type 51

### Deutsche Reichsbahn

* DRB Class 50

### Hellenic State Railways

* SEK class Κγ

## Surviving Steam Locomotives

| Works No. | Plated Year | Number/ name | Wheel arrangement | Gauge | Class | To | Notes |
| 1631 | 1900 | 11 | B n2t | 600 mm | | Estrada de Ferro Central do Brasil | Preserved at Museu do Trem do Engenho de Dentro in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. |
| 1760 | 1902 | | B | 770 mm | | | |
| 1812 | 1908 | 5 | B n2t | 1000 mm | | Built for Société de Construction du Port de Bahia S.A., later used by Companhia Paraíba de Cimento Portland. | Preserved at LP Assessoria Industrial in Votorantim, Brazil. |
| 1828 | 1903 | 13 | C n2t | 1435 mm | | Between 1903 and 1957 Mines d'Auchel (Département Pas-de-Calais), later CENPA (in Bègles). | Preserved at Ecomusée de la Grande Lande in Marquèze. |
| 1971 | 1905 | 101 | C n2t | 1000 mm | | Estrada de Ferro do Paraná, later at Estrada de Ferro São Paulo - Rio Grande. In 1935 was numbered 101 for Rede de Viação Paraná - Santa Catarina. | On display minus tender Praça Tomi Nakagawa in Londrina, Paraná, Brazil |
| 1972 | 1905 | 102 | C n2t | 1000 mm | | Estrada de Ferro do Paraná, later at Estrada de Ferro São Paulo - Rio Grande. In 1935 was numbered 102 for Rede de Viação Paraná - Santa Catarina. | One of the few steam locomotives that survived when Rede Ferroviária Federal (RFFSA) ended steam operations in Brazil in 1958. Preserved by Associação Brasileira de Preservação Ferroviária (ABPF) in Piratuba, Brazil. |
| 2085 | 1929 | 877 | E | 1435 mm | | | |
| 2161 | 1908 | 240.05 | D | 1435 mm | 240 | | |
| 2215 | 1909 | 21? | C n2t | 1000 mm | | Probably until 1912 as No. 21 of the Port Authority of Rio Grande, Brazil. | Today in the harbour museum. |
| 2216 | 1909 | 21 | C n2t | 1000 mm | | As No. 21 by the Port Authority of Rio Grande, Brazil. | Later Estrada de Ferro Carlos Barbosa - Alfredo Chaves, then as No. 6 at the Viação Férrea do Rio Grande do Sul. Exhibited today at the Largo Evandro Behr in Santa Maria, Brazil. |
| 2216 | 1909 | 22? | C n2t | 1000 mm | | May be No. 22 at the Port Authority of Rio Grande, Brazil. | |
| 2217 | 1909 | 23? | C n2t | 1000 mm | | Thought to be No. 23 at the Port Authority of Rio Grande, Brazil. | Later at the Estrada de Ferro Carlos Barbosa - Alfredo Chaves, and as No. 32 at the Viação Férrea do Rio Grande do Sul. Preserved at the railway station in Canela in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. |
| 2218 | 1909 | 24? | C n2t | 1000 mm | | Thought to be No. 24 of the Port Authority in Rio Grande, Brazil | Later at Estrada de Ferro Carlos Barbosa - Alfredo Chaves, and No. 8 of Viação Férrea do Rio Grande do Sul. Stored at the railway works Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. |
| 2224 | 1911 | 14 | C n2t | 950 mm | | | FCE 14 of Ferrovia Circumetnea in Catania, Italy. |
| 2330 | 1911 | 15 | C n2t | 1000 mm | | Delivered as No. 15 to the Port Authority of Rio Grande, Brazil. | Preserved at the railway works of Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. |
| 2395 | 1911 | | C n2t | 1000 mm | | Delivered to the Port Authority of Rio Grande, Brazil. | Exhibited in the Centro Administrativo Leopoldo Petry in Novo Hamburgo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. |
| 2402 | 1912 | 19 | C n2t | 1000 mm | | Delivered as No. 19 to the Port Authority of Rio Grande, Brazil. | Preserved at the railway works in Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. |
| 2403 | 1912 | 21 | C n2t | 1000 mm | | Delivered as No. 21 to the Port Authority of Rio Grande, Brazil. | Preserved in Capão do Leão, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. |
| 2658 | 1912 | | C n2t | 1435 mm | | Built for Compagnie des chemins de fer secondaires du Nord-Est | Now at Train Thur Doller Alsace. |
| 2741 | 1914 | 38 | B | 1000 mm | | | |
| 2804 | 1916 | MF 83 | C n2t | 1435 mm | | | Now MF 83 at Chemin de fer à vapeur des Trois Vallées. |
| 2828 | 1922 | | B n2t | 600 mm | | To a factory in São José dos Pinhais, Paraná, Brazil. | From it was moved to the Riesemberg family farm in União da Vitória, Paraná, Brazil. |
| 2864 | 1915 | | B | 600 mm | | | |
| 3052 | 1924 | ON-14 | C n2t | 1435 mm | | Oranje Nasau mine in Heerlen as ON-14. | Now at Nederlands Mijnmuseum in Heerlen. |
| 3107 | 1924 | | C n2t | 1435 mm | | Delivered to a factory in Bouchain, France. | Train touristique de Guîtres à Marcenais. |
| 3176 | | | C n2t | 1000/1435 mm | | Delivered as meter gauge locomotive on the Chemin de Fer d'Artois. | 1932 converted to standard gauge. 1944 used by the United States Army Transportation Corps (USATC) as a standard gauge shunter in operation in the port of Antwerp. Later at the Sas van Gent sugar factory. Initially preserved 1971–1977 on the Museumstoomtram Hoorn–Medemblik. Since then in the Museum Buurtspoorweg. |
| 3223 | 1926 | Bebert | C n2t | 1435 mm | | Belgian coal mine Charbonnages de Werister. | Stoomcentrum Maldegem. |
| 3235 | 1928 | 55.011 | B n2t | 1435 mm | | | |
| 3243 | 1929 | 6 | B n2t | 762 mm | | SA Hoboken in Antwerpen, Belgium. | Rebuilt using parts from 3355 of 1929 - carries 3355's worksplate. Initially preserved as 6 Winston at Statfold Barn Railway. Since 2020 operating at St. Nicholas Abbey Heritage Railway in Barbados. |
| 3252 | 1929 | 5 Enkhuizen | C n2t | 1435 mm | | Feritlizer manufacturers Dutch Nitrogen in Sluiskil (Netherlands). | 1972 preserved as SHM 5 Enkhuizen at Museum Buurtspoorweg. |
| 3292 | 1928 | 3 Bison | C n2t | 1435 mm | | Delivered as number 16 for Oranje Nassaumijnen in Heerlen, Netherlands. | Preserved as 3 Bison at Stoomtrein Goes - Borsele. |
| 3314 | 1928 | 122 | B fl | 1435 mm | | | |
| 3332 | 1928 | 704 | B fl | 1435 mm | | | ARBED 704, Association des Musee et tourisme. |
| 3340 | 1929 | | 1D | 600 mm | | | |
| 3362 | 1929 | | B n2t | 1000 mm | | ARBED-Steelworks Esch-sur-Alzette. | Preserved at Niederpallen station of the Schmalspurbahn Nördingen–Martelingen |
| 3442 | 1933 | LA MEUSE | C n2t | 1435 mm | | | At Pallot Heritage Steam Museum, Jersey. |
| 3907 | 1924 | | B n2t | 1435 mm | | | Train touristique de Guîtres à Marcenais. |
| 3931 | 1938 | 9 Les Fontenelles | 1'C n2t | 600 mm | | Sucrerie de Maizy (Aisne). | Now at Musée des transports de Pithiviers. |
| 3932 | 1938 | | 1'C n2t | 600 mm | | Sucrerie de Maizy (Aisne). | Now at Chemin de fer de la vallée de l’Ouche. |
| 4057 | 1953 | AD 08 | D n2t | 1435 mm | | André-Dumont coal mine in Waterschei. | Preserved as AD 08 by Chemin de fer à vapeur des Trois Vallées |
| 4123 | 1942 | AD 07 | D n2t | 1435 mm | | Andre Dumont coal mine, Genk, | Now AD 07 at Association des Musee et tourisme |
| 4147 | 1942 | | C n2t | 1100 mm | | Bobrek coal mine Bytom. | Now at Warsaw Railway Museum. |
| 4360 | 1947 | 706 | 2C1 | | | | |
| 4480 | 1951 | AD 09 | D n2t | 1435 mm | | André-Dumont coal mine in Waterschei. | Preserved at Chemin de fer à vapeur des Trois Vallées |
| 4672 | 1951 | | D | 1435 mm | | | |
| 5346 | 1956 | | C fl | | | | |
| 5347 | 1956 | | C fl | | | | |