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I don't know a ton about how steam locomotives work, ... the last surviving Union Pacific 800-class passenger locomotive built by American Locomotive Company (ALCO) ...
Alco, was short for the American Locomotive Company in Schenectady, New York. ... Steam locomotives were the standard of the era, but they required a lot of people to keep them going.
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).
One of 25 mammoth steam locomotives made by the American Locomotive Company between 1941 and 1944, Big Boy No. 4014, is making a trip from its current home, the Los Angeles Fairgrounds in Pomona ...
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — In its prime, a massive steam locomotive known as Big Boy No. 4014 was a moving eruption of smoke and vapor, a 6,300-horsepower brute dragging heavy freight trains over the ...
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 ...
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.
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Woodstown Central steam locomotive sidelined - MSNWoodstown 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 ...
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