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.[1]
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.[2]
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.[3] 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[4] |
| 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.[5] |
| unknown | 0-6-0 | 1901 | Boston and Maine Railroad #410 | On display in Lowell, Ma.[6] |
| 44369 | 2-6-0 | November 1907 | Boston and Maine Railroad #1455 | Danbury Railroad Museum, Danbury, Connecticut |
- Preserved Locomotives
Mount Washington Cog Railway #2 Ammonoosuc.
Boston and Maine 1455 on display at the Danbury Railway Museum.
Boston and Maine #494 on display at White River Junction station.
1880s built locomotive at the Mulberry Phosphate Museum.
Notes
- ↑ Edson, William D.; Corley, Raymond F. (Autumn 1982). "Locomotives of the Grand Trunk Railway". Railroad History. Boston, Mass.: Railway and Locomotive Historical Society. 147 (147): 49. JSTOR 43520915.
- ↑ The Amoskeag Manufacturing Co. of Manchester, New Hampshire: A History. Manchester, NH: Amoskeag Manufacturing Co. 1915. pp. 77–80. Retrieved 2014-04-19.
- ↑ "Steam Locomotive Information". steamlocomotive.info. Sunshine Software. Retrieved 2005-10-04.
- ↑ LaCombe, Don. "Greenfield Village Perimeter Railroad: from concept to reality". The Henry Ford Blog. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
- ↑ "Article 404 - the Ledger - Lakeland, FL".
- ↑ "Article 404 - rgusrail.com".
- ↑ "BM G-11a #410 - www.rgusrail.com". rgusrail.com. Retrieved 2022-03-20.