Woodstown Central Railroad steam locomotive No. 9, an Alco 0-6-0, suffered an overheated journal on its central axle during the 12 p.m. excursion on April 18. The railroad’s mechanical team ...

ALCO often worked in partnership with GE, which provided the electronic equipment, until GE started building its own locomotives and helped drive ALCO out of business. ALCO closed in 1969.

Alco got the order—and filled it at its Montreal plant. ... Modern locomotives ... It has not been used since 1928 but is ready to steam up at a hat’s drop. .

The Mid-Continent Railway Museum’s rescheduled “homecoming” ceremony for its Chicago & North Western Ten-Wheeler, No. 1385, ...

Albert Churella, an associate professor at Southern Polytechnic State University in Marietta, Ga., has studied the missteps that led to ALCO's demise, and will share his findings at the 50th ...

The Big Boy is a product of a crew called the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) and it was only in production for three years during the Second World War (1941 - 1944).

Dubbed the "world's largest" steam engine, each locomotive contained 25,000-gallon tanks and could hold as much as 56,000 pounds of coal; they were designed to pull freight through the mountains ...