Pittsburgh Locomotive and Car Works
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The Pittsburgh Locomotive and Car Works was a railroad equipment manufacturing company founded by Andrew Carnegie and T.N. Miller in 1865. It was located in Allegheny, Pennsylvania.
It produced its first locomotive in April 1867. Starting in the 1870s under its superintendent and general manager Daniel A. Wightman, it became known for its production of large locomotives. Its engines were shipped around the world, including to India and Japan.
By 1901, when Pittsburgh had merged with seven other manufacturing companies to form American Locomotive Company (ALCO), Pittsburgh had produced over 2,400 locomotives. In March 1919, ALCO closed the Pittsburgh facility.
[edit] Preserved Pittsburgh locomotives
Following is a list (in serial number order) of Pittsburgh locomotives built before the ALCO merger that have been spared the scrapper's torch.[1]
| Serial number | Wheel arrangement (Whyte notation) |
Build date | Operational owner(s) | Disposition |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| unknown | 4-6-0 | circa. 1891 | Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Class F-100 (number unknown). Sold circa. 1899 to Canadian Equipment Company and used on the construction of the National Transcontinental Railway, Canada's third transcontinental railway. Resold 1920 to Maritime Coal Ry. & Power Company #5. [2] Retired 1961 to Canadian Railway Museum. | Canadian Railway Museum, Delson, Quebec, Canada |
| 1815 | 2-6-0 | 1898 | Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad #1175 | Buffalo, Wyoming |
[edit] Notes
- ^ Sunshine Software, Steam Locomotive Information. Retrieved October 30, 2005.
- ^ Steam Locomotives of the New York Central Lines (Edson & Vail), Vol 2, page 674. New York Central System Historical Society
[edit] External links
- American History Site
- SteamLocomotive.info list of extant ALCO-Pittsburgh locomotives.
- Maritime Railway site History of Maritime Railway and disposition of its locomotives.
| Locomotive manufacturing predecessors of American Locomotive Company | |
|---|---|
| 1901 merger: | Brooks · Cooke · Dickson · Manchester · Pittsburgh · Rhode Island · Richmond · Schenectady |
| Later acquisitions: | Montreal (1904) · Rogers (1905) |
