Manchester Locomotive Works

thumb|The plant in 1912.Manchester Locomotive Works was a manufacturing company located in Manchester, New Hampshire, that built steam locomotives and fire engines in the 19th century. The first locomotive the company built was for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad in March 1855.Manchester purchased the locomotive manufacturing operation from the Amoskeag Locomotive Works in 1859. It acquired the steam fire engine business from Amoskeag Locomotive in 1876.
In 1901, Manchester and seven other locomotive manufacturing firms merged to form American Locomotive Company (ALCO). Locomotive production ceased in 1913.
==Preserved Manchester locomotives==
The following locomotives (listed in serial number order) built by Manchester before the ALCO merger have been preserved. All locations are in the United States unless otherwise noted.
Serial number	Wheel arrangement
(Whyte notation)	Build date 	Operational owner(s) 	Disposition
unknown 	0-2-2-0 (cog)	1875 	Mount Washington Cog Railway #2 	Mount Washington Cog Railway, Mount Washington, New Hampshire
unknown 	0-2-2-0 (cog)	1878 	Mount Washington Cog Railway #6 	Mount Washington Cog Railway, Mount Washington, New Hampshire
unknown 	0-2-2-0 (cog)	1883 	Mount Washington Cog Railway #1 	Mount Washington Cog Railway, Mount Washington, New Hampshire
unknown 	0-2-2-0 (cog)	1883 	Mount Washington Cog Railway #3 	Mount Washington Cog Railway, Mount Washington, New Hampshire
unknown 	0-2-2-0 (cog)	1883 	Mount Washington Cog Railway #4 	Mount Washington Cog Railway, Mount Washington, New Hampshire
unknown 	0-2-2-0 (cog)	1892 	Mount Washington Cog Railway #8 	Mount Washington Cog Railway, Mount Washington, New Hampshire
1546 	4-4-0 	July 1892 	Boston and Maine Railroad #494 	Union Station, White River Junction, Vermont
unknown 	0-4-0 	ca. 1870s 	Edison Cement Corporation #unknown	Purchased by Henry Ford in 1932 and rebuilt as a 4-4-0, currently operating at Greenfield Village, Dearborn, Michigan
unknown 	4-4-0 	ca. 1880s 	Unknown #unknown 	Discovered buried and unearthed in Mulberry, Florida in 2012, missing significant components such as cab, smokebox, pilot truck and tender. On display at the Mulberry Phosphate Museum.
unknown 	0-6-0 	1901 	Boston and Maine Railroad #410 	On display in Lowell, Ma.
44369 	2-6-0 	November 1907	Boston and Maine Railroad #1455 	Danbury Railroad Museum, Danbury, Connecticut
File:MountWashingtonCogRailway2.jpg|Mount Washington Cog Railway No. 2 (Ammonoosuc)
File:Boston&Maine410.jpeg|Boston & Maine No. 410 was built for the Boston & Maine Railroad by the Manchester Locomotive Works in Manchester, NH, in 1911.
File:Boston & Maine 1455.jpeg|Boston & Maine No. 1455 on display at the Danbury Railroad Museum.
File:B&M 494 at White River Junction October 2016.agr.jpg|Boston and Maine #494 on display at White River Junction station.
File:Mulberry Phosphate Museum - Steam Locomotive 2.jpg|1880s built locomotive at the Mulberry Phosphate Museum.
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