New-York tribune., 1901-07-24
BIG LOCOMOTIVE PLANT.
LIE AMERICAN COMPANY DOUBLES
THE CAPACITY OF IT'S PRIN-
CIPAL SHOPS-DEMAND FOR
ENGINES HEAVY

Inc American Locomotive Company has just
perfected plans for enlarging it's plant at
"chehectady. and when the proposed changes
are effected the plant will probably contain the
iihest engine building shops in the country. The
capacity of the plant will be increased from
80 to 1000 locomotives yearly. The idea is
TO make this plant the central one. and 1t will
De developed to the greatest extent although
other plants are to be improved and enlarged
Ihe sum of 100000 has been appropriated to
start this work
The American Locomotive Company when
these improvements completed, will be able
TO build and deliver about two thousand loco
motives yearly. The company has just COM
pieted its organization and Is In shape for
handling business. S. r. Galloway. president
OF the company. said yesterday that the or
ders In hand would keep the company running
at Its full capacity for year. and that the de-
mand from foreign countries for American
built locomotives was exceptionally heavy.
There is no immediate prospect of the Baldwin
company being absorbed by the American Loco
motive Company. The reason for this, as out
lined by officials of the American company. Is
that the only terms upon which the Baldwin
company willing to come in was upon a
guarantee that the present high profits be con-
tinued for all time.
We are all prosperous now" said an officer
of the American Locomotive Company "and
profits are good. The Baldwin people want
guarantee for all time upon the basis OF pres
ent profits The future may bring forth time
when all compa MES will not make SO much
money. and TO biud ourselves might prove TN
wise. Aside from this. the Baldwin company is
a big concern and wants to make money. We
do not anticipate any rate cutting. We are
going ahead upon the basis of building the
very best locomotives that be constructed
labor material and construction. and then sell
at a fair rate of profit. We have plenty Of work
I'm hand and little healthy competition isn't a
bad thing"
All the different plants taken in when the
American Locomotive Company was formed
have been reorganized and the superintendent
OF the local shops named. ]. II Mcconnell for
many years superintendent of motive power os
the Union Pacific road, has beer made manager
OF the Pittsburg shops.
Mr. Galloway when asked yesterday anout
the reports from England that American built
locomotives did not wear we'll as English
built locomotives said:
do not know exactly upon what basis the COM
engine is built TO haul much heavier lead than
is picked up by the English engine. II you com
hauled / beIisve the American built engine will
have the best of II. Again. the so-calied amer
can locomotives IN use abroad are not stricty hI
from Arnerican designs. They are built In America
but along lines designed by the purchaser and
possibly this may account for alleged inferiorty-
while the demand from abroad for American
made locomotives Ia exceptionally heavy. tne
American locomotive Company is not sending
many engines abroad, the home market de-
mands nearly the entire output OF the shops.