page_title: American Locomotive Company
section_title: Foundation and early history
hierarchical_section_title: American Locomotive Company / Foundation and early history
caption_attribution_description: Postcard photo of the American Locomotive Company at Schenectady, New York in 1906.
context_page_description: The American Locomotive Company was an American manufacturer of locomotives, diesel generators, steel and tanks. The company was formed in 1901 by the merger of Schenectady Locomotive Engine Manufactory of Schenectady, New York, with seven smaller locomotive manufacturers. The American Locomotive Automobile Company subsidiary designed and manufactured automobiles under the Alco brand from 1905 to 1913 and produced nuclear energy from 1954 to 1962.
  The company changed its name to Alco Products, Incorporated in 1955. In 1964, the Worthington Corporation acquired the company. The company went out of business in 1969.
  The name is currently being used by Fairbanks Morse Engine for their FMALCO line.
context_section_description: The company was created in 1901 from the merger of seven smaller locomotive manufacturers with Schenectady Locomotive Engine Manufactory of Schenectady, New York:
  Brooks Locomotive Works in Dunkirk, New York
  Cooke Locomotive & Machine Works in Paterson, New Jersey
  Dickson Manufacturing Company in Scranton, Pennsylvania
  Manchester Locomotive Works in Manchester, New Hampshire
  Pittsburgh Locomotive and Car Works in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  Rhode Island Locomotive Works in Providence, Rhode Island
  Richmond Locomotive Works in Richmond, Virginia
  The newly formed company was headquartered in Schenectady, New York. Samuel R. Callaway left the presidency of the New York Central Railroad to become president of Alco. When Callaway died on June 1, 1904, Albert J. Pitkin succeeded him as president of Alco.
  In 1904, the American Locomotive Company acquired control of the Locomotive and Machine Company of Montreal, Quebec, Canada; this company was eventually renamed the Montreal Locomotive Works. In 1905, Alco purchased Rogers Locomotive Works of Paterson, New Jersey, the second largest locomotive manufacturer in the United States behind Baldwin Locomotive Works.
  In the post World War II period, Alco operated manufacturing plants only in Schenectady and Montreal, having closed all the others. After the American Locomotive Company ceased locomotive manufacturing in the United States in 1969, Montreal Locomotive Works continued to manufacture locomotives based on Alco designs.
caption: The Schenectady plant in 1906
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