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The American Locomotive Company, often shortened to ALCO or Alco (or less frequently ALCo), was a builder of railroad locomotives in the United States. The company was created in 1901 from the merger of several smaller locomotive manufacturers: The new company was headquartered in Schenectady and eventually closed all the other locomotive manufacturing plants, except for the main plants in Schenectady, NY and Montreal, Que. 1904 saw the purchase of the Locomotive and Machine Company of Montreal, Canada; this company was eventually renamed the Montreal Locomotive Works (MLW) and continued to manufacture Alco designs after the parent company ceased production. The next year, 1905, Alco purchased Rogers Locomotive Works of Paterson, New Jersey, the second largest locomotive manufacturer in the US behind Baldwin Locomotive Works.
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Arkansas, USA
