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The American Locomotive Company, often shortened to ALCO, ALCo or Alco, designed, built and sold steam locomotives, diesel-electric locomotives, diesel engines and generators, specialized forgings, high quality steel, armed tanks and automobiles and produced nuclear energy. The American Locomotive Company was formed in 1901 by the merger of Schenectady Locomotive Engine Manufactory of Schenectady, New York with seven smaller locomotive manufacturers.
The American Locomotive Automobile Company subsidiary designed and manufactured automobiles under the Alco brand from 1905-1913 and produced nuclear energy from 1954-1962. The company changed its name to Alco Products, Incorporated in 1955. In 1964 the Worthington Corporation acquired the company. The company became defunct in 1969.
The company was created in 1901 from the merger of seven smaller locomotive manufacturers with Schenectady Locomotive Engine Manufactory of Schenectady, New York:
Old Film of making/repair of locomotives for New Haven, similar to the ALCO facility in Schenectady. This film shows the Readville, MA facility. Watch them lower great steel boilers atop chassis. It shows the creation of the massive wheels for the steam engines. Talks about necessary maintenance for America's largest locomotives
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DVD available for purchase at Tell Tale Productions: http://www.railroadvideodvd.com. American Locomotive Company (ALCO) and its Montreal Locomotive Works subsidiary (MLW) "hauled the world" for more than a century. The colorful, reliable and stylish ALCO name graced classic steam and diesel locomotives, automobiles, and military tanks beginning in 1901. This smokin' DVD was produced with assistance from the ALCO Heritage & Technical Society, legendary photographer Jim Shaughnessy, and railroads across the US and Canada. Rail historians, mechanics, crews, and videographers power a heavenly two-hours adventure. Features: Hauling the World (documentary), Green Mountain Tradition, ALCOs in the Ozarks, ALCOs in the Cornfield, ALCOs in the Adirondacks, Burbers Along the Battenkill, North of...
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I remember my mother's
Sister's husband's brother
Working in the goldmine full-time
Filling in for sunshine
Filing into tight lines
Of ordinary beehives
The door screams I hate you
Hate you hanging around my blue jeans
Why is there no breeze
No currency of leaves
No current through the water wire
No feelings I can see
I trust no emotion
I believe in locomotion
But I've turned to rust as we've discussed
Though I must have let you down
too many times
In the dirt and the dust
I have no idea how this happens
All of my maps have been overthrown
Happenstance has changed my plans
So many times my heart has been outgrown
Now everybody's feeling all alone
Can't tell you who I am
When everybody's feeling all alone
Can't tell you who I am
I am looking forward
Toward the shadows tracing bones
Our faces stitched and sewing
Our houses hemmed into homes
Trying to be thankful
Our stories fit into phones
And our voices lift so easily
A gift given accidentally
When we're not sure