List of locomotive builders
Encyclopedia
This is a list of the world's locomotive
builders by country, and is still a work in progress. The list includes both current and historical builders. Many companies changed names multiple times; the attempt is to give the most recognisable name, generally the one used for the longest time or during the company's best known period.
Australia
Generally, most locomotive
s for Australian railways were built from GE/EMD/Alco (USA) components, with the bodies built by Australian companies. Comeng, Clyde Engineering, and Goninan were the most prominent, building hundred of locomotives for Queensland Rail
, Rail Corporation New South Wales
(as the State Rail Authority), etc. Most of these companies have now merged to form the four listed below.
Ventra locomotives, Hyderabad
or NZR until it was privatised, but the Active ones still operating are now separate companies.
built the vast majority of their own locomotives. Commercial locomotive builders were called upon when requirements exceeded the railway works' capacity, but these orders were generally to the railways' own designs. British commercial builders concentrated on industrial users, small railway systems, and to a large extent the export market. British-built locomotives were exported around the world, especially to the current or former British Empire
. With the almost total disappearance of British industrial railways, the shrinking of the export market, and much reduced demand from Britain's railways, few British locomotive builders survive.
See also
's Mount Clare Shops
, Norfolk and Western's Roanoke Shops, Pennsylvania Railroad
's Altoona Works
and the Southern Pacific
's Sacramento Shops. Estimates of the total Steam locomotive production
in the USA is approximately 175,000 engines.
Locomotive
A locomotive is a railway vehicle that provides the motive power for a train. The word originates from the Latin loco – "from a place", ablative of locus, "place" + Medieval Latin motivus, "causing motion", and is a shortened form of the term locomotive engine, first used in the early 19th...
builders by country, and is still a work in progress. The list includes both current and historical builders. Many companies changed names multiple times; the attempt is to give the most recognisable name, generally the one used for the longest time or during the company's best known period.
| Africa | South Africa | |
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| Asia/Pacific | Australia, China, India, Iran, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Pakistan | |
| Europe | Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom | |
| North America | Canada, United States | |
| South America | Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay | |
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AustraliaAustraliaAustralia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
Generally, most locomotiveLocomotive
A locomotive is a railway vehicle that provides the motive power for a train. The word originates from the Latin loco – "from a place", ablative of locus, "place" + Medieval Latin motivus, "causing motion", and is a shortened form of the term locomotive engine, first used in the early 19th...
s for Australian railways were built from GE/EMD/Alco (USA) components, with the bodies built by Australian companies. Comeng, Clyde Engineering, and Goninan were the most prominent, building hundred of locomotives for Queensland Rail
Queensland Rail
Queensland Rail, also known as QR, is a government-owned railway operator in the state of Queensland. Under the control of the Queensland Government, Queensland Rail operates the inner-city and long-distance passenger services, as well as some freight operations and gives railway access to other...
, Rail Corporation New South Wales
Rail Corporation New South Wales
Rail Corporation New South Wales is a statutory authority of the New South Wales government. RailCorp owns, operates and maintains the Sydney suburban and interurban rail network which is marketed under the CityRail brand; in addition to operating rural passenger services under the CountryLink...
(as the State Rail Authority), etc. Most of these companies have now merged to form the four listed below.
Active Companies
- Avteq - Melbourne
- United Group Rail - Newcastle & PerthPerth, Western AustraliaPerth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....
http://www.unitedgroupltd.com/business_rail_overview.aspx - EDI RailEDi RailDowner Rail is a rail company based in Australia. Formed by a merger of Walkers and Clyde Engineering, it is currently a division of Downer EDi...
- New South WalesNew South WalesNew South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...
http://www.downeredi.com/index.cfm?DivisionID=5 - EDI WalkersWalkers LimitedWalkers Limited is an Australian engineering company, based in Maryborough, Queensland, which built ships and locomotives. It is still in the locomotive-building business as part of Downer Rail.-History:...
- QueenslandQueenslandQueensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...
Defunct Companies
- E M Baldwin (not the USA company) built mainly small sugar cane and miningMiningMining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, from an ore body, vein or seam. The term also includes the removal of soil. Materials recovered by mining include base metals, precious metals, iron, uranium, coal, diamonds, limestone, oil shale, rock...
tram engineTram engineA tram engine is a locomotive specially built, or modified, to work on a street, or roadside, tramway.-Steam tram engines:In the steam locomotive era, tram engines had to comply with certain legal requirements, although these varied from country to country:* The engine must be governed to a maximum...
s - Clyde EngineeringClyde EngineeringClyde Engineering was the name of part of the business now known as Downer EDI Rail. Clyde Engineering were involved in the construction of railway locomotives and rolling stock, as well as larger scale engineering projects on behalf of the governments of Australia...
- became EDI Rail - ComengComengThe Comeng train is a type of electric train that operates on the suburban railway network of Melbourne, Australia. They first appeared on the network in VicRail "teacup" livery in 1981 to replace the last of the then-60 year old Tait trains. More were ordered after the failed refurbishment and...
- Commonwealth EngineeringCommonwealth EngineeringThe Commonwealth Engineering Company Limited is the brand name of a former Australian Engineering Company that designed Locomotives, Electrical Multiple Units , Diesel Multiple Units and Trams.-History:...
, became Clyde Engineering - MelbourneMelbourneMelbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater... - A. GoninanUnited GoninanUGL Rail is an Australian rail engineering company and specialises in building and re-building railway cars including electric and diesel passenger trains, electric and diesel locomotives, and freight wagons...
- became United Goninan, became United Group Rail, NewcastleNewcastle, New South WalesThe Newcastle metropolitan area is the second most populated area in the Australian state of New South Wales and includes most of the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie Local Government Areas... - A. E. GoodwinA. E. GoodwinA. E. Goodwin was an Australian heavy engineering firm, which produced railway locomotives and rolling stock, as well as roadmaking machinery....
- James Martin and Co. - Gawler
- Henry Deakin Walkers - became EDI Walkers
- Ipswich workshops, Queensland Railways
- Morrison-Knudsen Australia
- Phoenix Engine Company, Ipswich, QueenslandIpswich, QueenslandIpswich is a city in South-East Queensland, Australia. Situated along the Bremer River Valley approximately 40 kilometres away from the state's capital Brisbane. The suburb by the same name forms the city's Central Business District and administrative centre...
- Springall and Frost, Ipswich, Queensland
Active Companies
- Bombardier Transportation Brugge, formerly BN-Eurorail, formerly La Brugeoise et Nivelles SA.La Brugeoise et Nivelles SA.La Brugeoise et Nivelles SA , later BN Constructions Ferroviaries et Métalliques was a Belgian manufacturer of railway locomotives and other rolling stock; it was formed by a merger of two companies La Brugeoise et Nicaise et Delcuve and Les Ateliers Métallurgiques de Nivelles.The Bruges factory...
- Alstom Charleroi, formerly ACEC
Defunct Companies
- La Meuse http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AMTP_130T_La_Meuse.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Locomotive_La_Meuse.JPG
- Société Anglo-Franco-Belge
- Ateliers de Tubize
Brazil
- GE Transportation - BrazilGE Transportation SystemsGE Transportation, formerly known as GE Rail, is a division of General Electric. The organization manufactures equipment for the railroad, marine, mining, drilling and energy generation industries. It is based in Erie, Pennsylvania. Locomotives are assembled at the Erie plant, while engine...
http://www.getransportation.com/br/pr/
Active companies
- Bombardier TransportationBombardier TransportationBombardier Transportation is the rail equipment division of the Canadian firm, Bombardier Inc. Bombardier Transportation is one of the world's largest companies in the rail-equipment manufacturing and servicing industry. Its headquarters are in Berlin, Germany....
- Montreal QC http://www.bombardier.com/index.jsp - Railpower TechnologiesRailPower TechnologiesRailpower Technologies Corp. is a subsidiary of R.J. Corman Railroad Group that builds environmentally friendly hybrid and genset yard locomotives, founded by Frank Donnelly and Gerard Koldyk...
- Vancouver, BC http://www.railpower.com/index.html
Defunct companies
- Canadian Locomotive CompanyCanadian Locomotive CompanyThe Canadian Locomotive Company, commonly referred to as CLC, was a Canadian manufacturer of railway locomotives located in Kingston, Ontario. Its works were located on Ontario Street and Gore Street on Kingston's waterfront....
- Kingston ON - General Motors DieselGeneral Motors DieselGeneral Motors Diesel was a Canadian railway diesel locomotive manufacturer.-History:General Motors Diesel, Limited, was created in 1949 as the Canadian subsidiary of the Electro Motive Division of General Motors located in the United States...
Division - London ON - now Electro-Motive Diesel Canadian operations - Montreal Locomotive WorksMontreal Locomotive WorksMontreal Locomotive Works was a Canadian railway locomotive manufacturer which existed under several names from 1883–1985, producing both steam and diesel locomotives. For a number of years it was a subsidiary of the American Locomotive Company...
- Montreal QC
China
- Two Groups
- China Northern Rail Corporation Limited (CNR)
- CSR Corporation Limited (CSR) http://www.csrgc.com/
- CNR Beijing February 7th Locomotive Works
- CNR Changchun Railway Vehicles http://www.cccar.com.cn/
- Changsha Heavy Machinery http://www.chmp.com.cn/cp.asp?id=129
- CNR Dalian Locomotive and Rolling Stock CompanyDalian Locomotive and Rolling Stock CompanyCNR Dalian Locomotive and Rolling Stock Company , often abbreviated as DLoco, is a company located in Dalian, Liaoning Province, China, producing railway locomotives, multiple units and diesel engines....
http://www.dloco.com - Qishuyan Locomotive and Rolling Stock Works http://www.qscn.com/english/Index.asp
- CSR Sifang Locomotive and Rolling StockSifang Locomotive and Rolling StockCSR Sifang Co Ltd. formerly known as CSR Sifang Locomotive & Rolling Stock Co., Ltd. is a Chinese rolling stock manufacturer based in Qingdao, Shandong province...
, Co. http://www.cqsf.com/ - CNR Tangshan Railway VehicleTangshan Railway VehicleCNR Tangshan Railway Vehicle Co. Ltd. , formerly known as Tangshan Locomotive and Rolling Stock Works, is a manufacturer of locomotives and rolling stock located in Tangshan, Hebei province, People's Republic of China...
http://www.tangche.com/Lists/yingwen/default.aspx - Taiyuan Locomotive and Rolling Stock Works http://www.tyloro.com/Lists/enindex/default2.aspx
- Xiangtan Electric Manufacturing Group Corporation Ltd http://www.xemw.com/en/index.html
- CSR Ziyang Locomotive Works http://www.zyloco.com/english/default.htm
- CSR Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Company (Gofront)
- Zhuzhou CSR Times Electric
Czech Republic
- ČKDCKDA knock-down kit is a kit containing the parts needed to assemble a product...
- (Českomoravská Kolben-Daněk) - Skoda WorksŠkoda WorksŠkoda Works was the largest industrial enterprise in Austro-Hungary and later in Czechoslovakia, one of its successor states. It was also one of the largest industrial conglomerates in Europe in the 20th century...
- Plzeň http://www.skoda.cz/skoda-holding
Finland
- LokomoLokomoLokomo was a Finnish manufacturer of railroad equipment and steam locomotives, situated in Tampere, Finland. The Lokomo factories in Tampere produced the MIR submersibles for the Soviet Academy of Sciences.They later merged into the Metso Corporation....
- TampellaTampellaOy Tampella Ab was a Finnish heavy industry manufacturer, a maker of paper machines, locomotives, military weaponry, as well as wood-based products such as packaging. The company was based mainly in the city of Tampere....
- ValmetValmet' was a Finnish state-owned conglomerate. Valmet was formed in 1951, when the state of Finland decided to group their various factories working on war reparations to the Soviet Union under one company...
- Transtech OyTranstech OyTranstech Oy is Finland's major domestic manufacturer of railway rolling stock. It specialises in building railway vehicles for extreme climatic conditions, such as those encountered in Finland.-History:...
/ TalgoTalgoTalgo is a Spanish manufacturer of railway vehicles. It is best known for a design of articulated railway passenger cars in which the wheels are mounted in pairs, but not joined by an axle, and being between rather than underneath the individual coaches...
Oy - Saalasti Oy
- RautaruukkiRautaruukkiRautaruukki Corporation is a Finnish company, headquartered in Helsinki, which manufactures and supplies metal-based components and systems to the construction and engineering industries....
Oyj - Valtionrautatiet (Finnish State Railways)
France
- AlstomAlstomAlstom is a large multinational conglomerate which holds interests in the power generation and transport markets. According to the company website, in the years 2010-2011 Alstom had annual sales of over €20.9 billion, and employed more than 85,000 people in 70 countries. Alstom's headquarters are...
http://www.transport.alstom.com/home/ - Ateliers du Nord de la FranceAteliers du Nord de la FranceAteliers de Construction du Nord de la France was a French locomotive manufacturer, based at Crespin in northern France. Later known as ANF Industrie or ANF the company was acquired by Bombardier Transportation in 1989 and is now part of Bombardier Transport France S.A.S.-History:Ateliers de...
(ANF) - now owned by Bombardier TransportationBombardier TransportationBombardier Transportation is the rail equipment division of the Canadian firm, Bombardier Inc. Bombardier Transportation is one of the world's largest companies in the rail-equipment manufacturing and servicing industry. Its headquarters are in Berlin, Germany.... - Brissonneau and LotzBrissonneau and LotzBrissonneau and Lotz was a French locomotive manufacturer. In 1972 it was absorbed into Alstom.The company was also a contractor for Opel, making the body for the Opel GT sports car....
acquired by Alstom in 1972 - CFD http://www.cfd.fr/
- Compagnie Electro-Méchanique acquired by Alstom in 1985
- Fives-Lille Cail
- Société Alsacienne de Constructions MécaniquesSociété Alsacienne de Constructions MécaniquesThe Société Alsacienne de Constructions Mécaniques [Society of Alsatian mechanical engineering] was an engineering company with its headquarters in Mulhouse, Alsace which produced railway locomotives, textile and printing machinery, diesel engines, boilers, lifting equipment, firearms and mining...
Germany
- AEGAEGAllgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft was a German producer of electrical equipment founded in 1883 by Emil Rathenau....
- AdtranzAdtranzABB Daimler-Benz Transportation , commonly known under its brand Adtranz, was a multi-national rail transport equipment manufacturer with facilities concentrated in Europe and the USA....
- Berliner MaschinenbauBerliner MaschinenbauBerliner Maschinenbau AG was a German manufacturer of locomotives.The factory was founded by Louis Victor Robert Schwartzkopff on 3 October 1852 as Eisengießerei und Maschinen-Fabrik von L. Schwartzkopff in Berlin ....
- Bombardier, Kassel
- Bombardier, Hennigsdorf (multiple units) ; formerly LEW HennigsdorfLEW HennigsdorfThe rail vehicle factory in Hennigsdorf, Germany was founded in 1910 by AEG. Locomotive production began in 1913, and in the 1930s absorbed the work of the August Borsig locomotive factory, being renamed the Borsig Lokomotiv Werke GmbH until 1944...
; formely Borsig Lokomotiv Werke - Borsig (August Borsig Lokomotiv-Werke in TegelTegelTegel is a locality in the Berlin borough of Reinickendorf on the shore of Lake Tegel. The Tegel locality, the second largest in area of the 95 Berlin districts, also includes the neighbourhood of Saatwinkel.-History:...
) - GmeinderGmeinderGmeinder GmbH was a German locomotive and engineering company based in Mosbach. Its products included diesel engines, small locomotives and other railway locomotive parts...
- HanomagHanomagHanomag was a German producer of steam locomotives, tractors, trucks and military vehicles. Hanomag first achieved international fame by delivering a large number of steam locomotives to Romania and Bulgaria before World War I....
- Henschel
- KruppKruppThe Krupp family , a prominent 400-year-old German dynasty from Essen, have become famous for their steel production and for their manufacture of ammunition and armaments. The family business, known as Friedrich Krupp AG Hoesch-Krupp, was the largest company in Europe at the beginning of the 20th...
- Krauss-MaffeiKrauss-MaffeiThe Krauss-Maffei Wegmann GmbH & Co KG or simply Krauss-Maffei is an injection molding machine manufacturer and defence company based in Munich, Germany...
- Maschinenbau KielMaschinenbau KielMaschinenbau Kiel GmbH designed, manufactured and marketed marine diesel engines, diesel locomotives and tracked vehicles under the MaK brand name. The three primary operating divisions of Maschinenbau Kiel GmbH were sold to different companies in the 1990s.Rheinmetall acquired the military...
(MaK) - Maschienenfabrik L. Schwarzkopff
- Schichau-WerkeSchichau-WerkeThe Schichau-Werke was a German engineering works and shipyard based in Elbing, formerly part of the German Empire, and which is today the town of Elbląg in northern Poland. It also had a subsidiary shipyard in Danzig .-Early years:...
- SchömaSchömaSchöma is a company based in Diepholz, Germany, specialising in the construction of small diesel railway engines.-External links:*...
- Siemens AGSiemens AGSiemens AG is a German multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Munich, Germany. It is the largest Europe-based electronics and electrical engineering company....
- VosslohVosslohVossloh AG is a German transport technology manufacturer based in the Westphalian town of Werdohl. The group has 4,700 employees , and generated sales of €1.2 billion, of which approximately 60% came from the rail infrastructure division, and the remainder from the motive power and components...
- VoithVoithThe Voith GmbH, which is headquartered in Germany, is a family-run corporation in the mechanical engineering sector with worldwide operations....
- WindhoffWindhoffWindhoff is a German manufacturer of specialised railways trains, originally dating from 1889.It is particularly known for the CargoSprinter concept, a diesel multiple unit train for transporting intermodal containers...
- Orenstein and Koppel GmbHOrenstein and Koppel GmbHOrenstein & Koppel was a major German engineering company specialising in railway vehicles, escalators, and heavy equipment. It was founded on April 1, 1876 in Berlin by Benno Orenstein and Arthur Koppel....
- Fahrzeugtechnik Dessau http://www.fahrzeugtechnik-dessau.com/engl/index.htm
- Robel trackwork http://www.robel.info/e_home.htm
- Interlock steam http://www.interlok.info/indexe.htm
- AG Vulcan Stettin
Greece
- BasileiadesBasileiadesBasileiades is one of the most historic Greek machine building companies and the largest in its field in the country during the second half of the 19th century...
- Hellenic Shipyards Co.Hellenic Shipyards Co.Hellenic Shipyards is a large Shipyard in Skaramangas near Athens, Greece.Its origins are connected with a shipyard created in 1937 in order to build warships...
http://www.hellenic-shipyards.gr/pg/rolling.htm
India
- Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited http://www.bhel.com/bhel/product_services/product.php?categoryid=65&link=Transportation%3EElectrics%20for%20Urban%20Transportation%20System
- Chittaranjan Locomotive Works http://www.clwindia.com/
- Diesel Locomotive WorksDiesel Locomotive WorksThe Diesel Locomotive Works in Varanasi, India, is a production unit owned by Indian Railways, for which it manufactures diesel-electric locomotives and spare parts.-Company:...
(DLW) http://www.diesellocoworks.com/ - Golden Rock Locomotive WorkshopsGolden Rock Locomotive WorkshopsGolden Rock Locomotive Workshops is a firm in India that manufactures railway locomotives and other kinds of rolling stock. It is under Southern Railways of Indian Railway Board. The factory is based in Tiruchi, Tamil Nadu...
- Bharat Earth Movers Limited
- SAN Locomotive & Engineering Co Ltd. Banglore.http://www.san-engineering.com/
Iran
- MLC (Mapna Locomotive Engineering and Manufacturing Company)MAPNAMAPNA Group is a group of Iranian companies involved in construction and installation of energy production machinery, including boilers, gas and steam turbines, electrical generators, as well as industrial scale petroleum processing installations, railway locomotives and wind power...
- Wagon ParsWagon ParsWagon Pars is an Iranian train manufacturing company established in 1974, in Arak, Iran.Products include locomotives, trains, metros, freight and fuel wagons, and equipment for passenger boarding of aircraft.-History:...
Ventra locomotives, Hyderabad
Italy
- Ipe http://www.ipelocomotori.it/
- Valente http://www.valente.it/it/locomotori_diesel.htm
- Ansaldo BredaAnsaldobreda, S.P.A.AnsaldoBreda S.p.A. is a rail transport engineering company based in Italy. The company designs and manufactures railway and mass transit vehicles.-Company details:...
http://www.ansaldobreda.it/home2_eng.asp
Japan
- Kawasaki Heavy Industries Rolling Stock CompanyKawasaki Heavy Industries Rolling Stock Companyis the rolling stock production division of Kawasaki Heavy Industries. Since beginning operations in 1906, the company has produced more than 90,000 railroad vehicles.- Products :...
http://www.khi.co.jp/sharyo/index_e.html - Hitachi, Ltd.Hitachi, Ltd.is a Japanese multinational conglomerate headquartered in Marunouchi 1-chome, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. The company is the parent of the Hitachi Group as part of the larger DKB Group companies...
http://www.hitachi-rail.com/ - Mitsubishi Heavy IndustriesMitsubishi Heavy Industries, or MHI, is a Japanese company. It is one of the core companies of Mitsubishi Group.-History:In 1870 Yataro Iwasaki, the founder of Mitsubishi took a lease of Government-owned Nagasaki Shipyard. He named it Nagasaki Shipyard & Machinery Works, and started the shipbuilding business on a full scale...
http://www.mhi.co.jp/indexe.html - ToshibaToshibais a multinational electronics and electrical equipment corporation headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It is a diversified manufacturer and marketer of electrical products, spanning information & communications equipment and systems, Internet-based solutions and services, electronic components and...
http://www.toshiba.co.jp/worldwide/
New Zealand
The various Workshops below were part of the New Zealand RailwaysNew Zealand Railways Department
The New Zealand Railways Department, NZR or NZGR and often known as the "Railways", was a government department charged with owning and maintaining New Zealand's railway infrastructure and operating the railway system. The Department was created in 1880 and was reformed in 1981 into the New...
or NZR until it was privatised, but the Active ones still operating are now separate companies.
Defunct
- Addington WorkshopsAddington WorkshopsThe Addington Railway Workshops was a major railway facility established in the Christchurch suburb of Addington in May 1880 by the New Zealand Railways Department. The workshops were previously in Carlyle Street and closed in 1990.-Description:...
Christchurch - Easttown Workshops Wanganui
- Newmarket WorkshopsNewmarket WorkshopsNewmarket Workshops in Auckland was a major New Zealand Railways Department facility, one of 13 workshops nationwide. It was one of two main railway workshops of Auckland, used mainly for maintenance; the older facility at Newmarket was replaced in 1929 by Otahuhu Workshops.- First Workshops :The...
Auckland (to 1928) - Otahuhu WorkshopsOtahuhu WorkshopsOtahuhu railway workshops were a major rolling stock maintenance and repair facility of the New Zealand Government Railways Department, in the south Auckland suburb of Otahuhu in New Zealand's North Island...
Auckland (from 1929)
Private Companies
- A & G PriceA & G PriceA & G Price Limited is an engineering firm and locomotive manufacturer in Thames, New Zealand, established in 1868. In 2004 a precision formed yacht keel division was formed to make the Maximus canting keel...
Thames - Scott BrothersScott Brothers (locomotive manufacturers)Scott Brothers in Christchurch, New Zealand had an engineering works and iron foundry that supplied 11 steam tank locomotives to the New Zealand Government Railways in 1874. They are the only New Zealand manufacturer apart from A & G Price of Thames to have supplied the NZR with steam locomotives,...
Christchurch - E.W. Mills Wellington
Pakistan
- Pakistan Locomotive Factory, Risalpur (from 1993)
Poland
- PafawagPafawagPafawag is a Polish locomotive manufacturer based in Wrocław. The company became part of Adtranz in 1997 as Adtranz Pafawag, and in 2001 part of Bombardier Transportation...
- PesaPESA SAPESA is a train manufacturing company based in Bydgoszcz, Poland. The company is the oldest producer of railway vehicles in Poland. It delivers vehicles to a number of customers in European countries, including Czech Republic, Hungary, Lithuania, Italy, and Poland...
- FablokFablokFablok is a Polish manufacturer of steam locomotives, based in Chrzanów. Until 1947 the official name was The First Factory of Locomotives in Poland Ltd. , Fablok being a widely used syllabic abbreviation of Fabryka Lokomotyw. It is now named "BUMAR - FABLOK S.A. "...
- Bumar http://www.bumar.com/eng/index1.php?id=cywilnye
- NewagNewagNewag S.A. is a Polish company, based in Nowy Sącz, specialising in production, maintenance and modernisation of railway rolling stock. The company products include the 14WE type electric multiple unit.- History :...
- H. Cegielski (Poznań)
Romania
- ElectroputereElectroputereElectroputere S.A. , is a company based in Craiova, Romania. Founded in 1949, it is today one of the largest industrial companies in Romania....
- Craiova - FAURFaurFaur can be:* José Faur, Sepharadi Hakham , teacher and scholar* Freda du Faur, the first female mountaineer to climb New Zealand's tallest mountain, Mount Cook* Guy Du Faur, Seigneur de Pibrac, French jurist and poet...
- Bucharest - UCM Reşiţa - Reşiţa http://www.ucmr.com/
- Softronic - Craiova http://www.softronic.ro/indexen.html
Russia
- CJSC TransmashholdingTransmashholdingCJSC Transmashholding is the largest manufacturer of locomotives and rail equipment in Russia, with annual sales of US$3.2 billion and a workforce of 55,000 people in 2008. The company includes 14 engineering and production sites in Russia and one production and engineering site in...
- Novocherkassk Electric Locomotive Factory(NEVZ)
- Bryanskiy Machine-building Plant
- Kolomensky Zavod (KTZ) http://www.kolomnadiesel.com
- BMZ http://www.bmz.032.ru
- Sinara GroupSinara GroupSinara Group is a Russian investment company founded in 2001 with holdings in the property development, transportation and financial services sectors.-History:...
- Ludinovoteplovoz
- Ekaterinburg Electric Locomotive Factory EERZ http://www.erz.ru/
- Mytischy Subway Carriages Factory (Metrovagonmash) http://www.metrowagonmash.ru/
- Saint Petersburg Subway Carriages Factory
South Africa
- Union Carriage and Wagon http://www.ucw.co.za
- DCD Dorbyl http://www.dcd.co.za
- Girdlestone steam http://www.pgrail.co.za/
- Transwerk http://www.transwerk.co.za/
Spain
- Vossloh Rail Vehicles http://www.vossloh-espana.com
- TalgoTalgoTalgo is a Spanish manufacturer of railway vehicles. It is best known for a design of articulated railway passenger cars in which the wheels are mounted in pairs, but not joined by an axle, and being between rather than underneath the individual coaches...
http://www.talgo.com/htm/spain.htm - CAF http://www.caf.net/caste/home/index.php
- La Maquinista Terrestre y Marítima
- Babcock & Wilcock
- Cía. Euskalduna
Sweden
- ASEAASEAAllmänna Svenska Elektriska Aktiebolaget was a Swedish industry company. It merged with the Swiss Brown, Boveri & Cie in 1988 to form Asea Brown Boveri...
(rail business sold to AlstomAlstomAlstom is a large multinational conglomerate which holds interests in the power generation and transport markets. According to the company website, in the years 2010-2011 Alstom had annual sales of over €20.9 billion, and employed more than 85,000 people in 70 countries. Alstom's headquarters are...
) - Munktells Mekaniska Verkstad
- NOHABNOHABNOHAB was a manufacturing company in the city of Trollhättan, Sweden.The company was founded by Antenor Nydqvist, Johan Magnus Lidström and Carl Olof Holm in 1847 as Trollhättans Mekaniska Verkstad as a manufacturer of turbines for hydraulic power plants...
http://www.nohab.se/ - STT http://www.stt-train.se/eng/stt_eng.html
Switzerland
- Brown, Boveri & CieBrown, Boveri & CieBrown, Boveri & Cie was a Swiss group of electrical engineering companies.It was founded in Baden, Switzerland, in 1891 by Charles Eugene Lancelot Brown and Walter Boveri who worked at the Maschinenfabrik Oerlikon. In 1970 BBC took over the Maschinenfabrik Oerlikon...
- Swiss Locomotive and Machine WorksSwiss Locomotive and Machine WorksSwiss Locomotive and Machine Works were a railway equipment manufacturer based in Winterthur in Switzerland...
(SLM) (now owned by Stadler RailStadler RailStadler Rail AG , based in Bussnang, Switzerland, is a Swiss manufacturer of rail passenger cars.In 1942 Ernst Stadler founded the Stadler Engineering Office which later became Stadler Rail.- Factories :...
) - DLM AG, Dampflokomotiv- und Maschinenfabrik AG http://www.dlm-ag.ch/
- Stadler RailStadler RailStadler Rail AG , based in Bussnang, Switzerland, is a Swiss manufacturer of rail passenger cars.In 1942 Ernst Stadler founded the Stadler Engineering Office which later became Stadler Rail.- Factories :...
http://www.stadlerrail.com/default.asp?ms=1&h=1&id=56&n=189&s=2
Ukraine
- LuhanskteplovozLuhanskteplovozLuhanskteplovoz , earlier known as Voroshilovgrad Locomotive works is a large industrial company in Luhansk, Ukraine, manufacturing locomotives, multiple unit trains as well as other heavy equipment....
- JSC Krukovskiy Wagon Works
United Kingdom
Historically, major railways in the United KingdomUnited Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
built the vast majority of their own locomotives. Commercial locomotive builders were called upon when requirements exceeded the railway works' capacity, but these orders were generally to the railways' own designs. British commercial builders concentrated on industrial users, small railway systems, and to a large extent the export market. British-built locomotives were exported around the world, especially to the current or former British Empire
British Empire
The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom. It originated with the overseas colonies and trading posts established by England in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. At its height, it was the...
. With the almost total disappearance of British industrial railways, the shrinking of the export market, and much reduced demand from Britain's railways, few British locomotive builders survive.
Active companies
- Alan Keef Ltd http://www.alankeef.co.uk/ (narrow-gauge diesel/steam locomotives, permanent way)
- Clayton Equipment Company Ltd http://www.clayton-equipment.co.uk/ (diesel/electric/battery locomotives)
- Brush Barclay http://www.brushtraction.com/fbrushbarclay/under.htm
- Brush TractionBrush TractionThis article is about a British rail-locomotive maker. For the Detroit auto-maker, see Brush Motor Car CompanyBrush Traction is a manufacturer and maintainer of railway locomotives, part of the FKI group , based at Loughborough in Leicestershire, England situated alongside the Midland Main Line.-...
http://www.brushtraction.com/ (diesel/electric locomotives) - Exmoor Steam RailwayExmoor Steam RailwayThe Exmoor Steam Railway is a narrow gauge steam railway and locomotive manufacturer, located at Bratton Fleming in North Devon.-12¼ in gauge:The railway was built by the Stirland family and first opened as a tourist attraction in August 1990...
http://freespace.virgin.net/hanson.mike/Exmoor.htm (narrow-gauge steam locomotives) - Hunslet Engine CompanyHunslet Engine CompanyThe Hunslet Engine Company is a British locomotive-building company founded in 1864 at Jack Lane, Hunslet, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England by John Towlerton Leather, a civil engineering contractor, who appointed James Campbell as his Works Manager.In 1871, James Campbell bought the company for...
http://www.hunsletengine.com/ (diesel locomotives/narrow-gauge steam locomotives) - Cowans SheldonClarke ChapmanClarke Chapman is a British engineering firm based in Gateshead, which was formerly listed on the London Stock Exchange.-History:The company was founded in 1864 in Gateshead by William Clarke...
http://www.clarkechapman.co.uk/site/cowanssheldon.asp?nav_id=468 (railway cranes) - TMA EngineeringTMA EngineeringTMA Engineering Ltd, 95-111 Tyburn Rd, Erdington, Birmingham, Great Britain. Their main business is supplying, maintaining, repairing and rebuilding power presses...
Ltd (narrow-gauge diesel locomotives) - 5AT project, steam for the 21st century http://www.5at.co.uk/
- Steam Loco Design http://www.steam-loco-design.co.uk/
Defunct companies
- Andrew Barclay
- Armstrong WhitworthArmstrong WhitworthSir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Co Ltd was a major British manufacturing company of the early years of the 20th century. Headquartered in Elswick, Newcastle upon Tyne, Armstrong Whitworth engaged in the construction of armaments, ships, locomotives, automobiles, and aircraft.-History:In 1847,...
- Aveling and PorterAveling and PorterAveling and Porter was a British agricultural engine and steam roller manufacturer. Thomas Aveling and Richard Thomas Porter entered into partnership in 1862, developed a steam engine three years later in 1865 and produced more steam rollers than all the other British manufacturers combined.-The...
- Avonside Engine CompanyAvonside Engine CompanyThe Avonside Engine Company was a locomotive manufacturer in Avon Street, St. Philip's, Bristol, England between 1864 and 1934. However the business originated with an earlier enterprise Henry Stothert and Company.-Origins:...
- Bagnall
- BaguleyErnest E. Baguley-Employment:Baguley served an apprenticeship with R & W Hawthorn Leslie, initially at their Tyneside shipyard and later at their Forth Bank, Newcastle, locomotive works. In 1890 he moved to Stafford and became Chief Draughtsman for W G Bagnall Ltd...
- Beyer, Peacock and CompanyBeyer, Peacock and CompanyBeyer, Peacock and Company was an English railway Locomotive manufacturer with a factory in Gorton, Manchester. Founded by Charles Beyer and Richard Peacock, it traded from 1854 until 1966...
- Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon CompanyBirmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon CompanyThe Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company was a railway locomotive and carriage builder, founded in Birmingham, England and, for most of its existence, located at nearby Smethwick, with the factory was divided by the boundary between the two places...
- Black, Hawthorn & CoBlack, Hawthorn & CoBlack, Hawthorn and Company was a steam locomotive manufacturer with a works situated in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, UK.-John Coulthard and Son:...
- BRELBRELBritish Rail Engineering Limited , was the railway systems engineering division of British Rail, until the design and building of trains in the UK was privatised in 1993. On 31 October 1969, the company was incorporated as British Rail Engineering Limited.-Main products:The vast majority of BREL's...
- British Electric VehiclesBritish Electric VehiclesBritish Electric Vehicles of Southport, Lancashire, built industrial vehicles including both small electrically motorised trolleys for carrying raw materials and products around factories and electric locomotives desirable for use underground and in flammable environments, since 1905. Closed in...
- British Thomson-HoustonBritish Thomson-HoustonBritish Thomson-Houston was a British engineering and heavy industrial company, based at Rugby, Warwickshire, England. They were known primarily for their electrical systems and steam turbines. They were merged with the similar Metropolitan-Vickers company in 1928, but the two maintained their own...
- CravensCravensCravens Railway Carriage and Wagon Company Limited was a railway rolling stock builder in the Darnall district of Sheffield, England. Cravens built many diagrams of coaching stock for the Pre-grouping Railway companies of Great Britain, the Grouped companies and for British Railways itself. They...
(multiple units/coaching stock) - Davies and MetcalfeDavies and MetcalfeDavies and Metcalfe Ltd was a railway equipment and locomotive manufacturer from Romiley, Manchester, England originally founded in Aberystwyth in 1878...
- De WintonDe WintonDe Winton & Co were engineers in Caernarfon, Wales. They built vertical boilered narrow gauge locomotives for use in Welsh slate mines and other industrial settings. At least six De Winton locomotives have been preserved...
- Drewry Car Co.Drewry Car Co.Drewry Car Co, strictly speaking, was a railway locomotive and railcar sales organisation for most of its life. Only at the start and the end of its life did it build its own products, relying on sub-contractors for the rest of its time...
- Dübs
- George EnglandGeorge EnglandGeorge England and Co. was an early English manufacturer of steam locomotives founded by the engineer George England of Newcastle upon Tyne...
- English ElectricEnglish ElectricEnglish Electric was a British industrial manufacturer. Founded in 1918, it initially specialised in industrial electric motors and transformers...
- Fletcher, Jennings & Co.Fletcher, Jennings & Co.Fletcher, Jennings & Co. was an engineering company at Lowca near Whitehaven, Cumbria, England.-Overview:Fletcher and Jennings took over the business of Tulk and Ley in 1857...
- Fox, Walker and Company
- Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Company (multiple units/coaching stock)
- Greenwood & Batley Ltd (Greenbat)
- Hawthorn Leslie
- F. C. Hibberd & Co LtdF. C. Hibberd & Co LtdF. C. Hibberd & Co Ltd was a British locomotive-building company founded in 1927 to build industrial petrol and diesel locomotives. In 1932 the company acquired the goodwill of James and Frederick Howard Ltd...
- Hudswell ClarkeHudswell ClarkeHudswell, Clarke and Company Limited was an engineering and locomotive building company in Jack Lane, Hunslet, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.-History:...
- John Fowler & Co.John Fowler & Co.thumb|right|John Fowler & Co. [[steam roller]] of 1923John Fowler & Co Engineers of Leathley Road, Hunslet, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England produced traction engines and ploughing implements and equipment, as well as railway equipment. Fowler also produced the Track Marshall tractor which was a...
- Kerr StuartKerr StuartKerr, Stuart and Company Ltd was a locomotive manufacturer from Stoke-on-Trent, England.-History:It was founded in 1881 by James Kerr as James Kerr & Company, and became Kerr, Stuart & Company from 1883 when John Stuart was taken on as a partner...
- KitsonKitson & Co.Kitson and Company was a locomotive manufacturer based in Hunslet, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.-Early history:The company started as James Kitson at the Airedale Foundry, off Pearson Street, Hunslet in 1835 with Charles Todd as a partner...
- Stephen LewinStephen LewinStephen Lewin of Poole, Dorset, England was a builder of steamboats and steam locomotives.-Locomotives:Only a small number of locomotives were built, including:* 0-4-0 Ant and Bee, for 20 inch gauge Great Laxey Mine Railway, Isle of Man...
- Manning WardleManning WardleManning Wardle was a steam locomotive manufacturer based in Hunslet, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.- Precursor companies :The city of Leeds was one of the earliest centres of locomotive building; Matthew Murray built the first commercially successful steam locomotive, Salamanca, in Holbeck, Leeds,...
- Metro-Cammell (multiple units/coaching stock)
- Metropolitan-VickersMetropolitan-VickersMetropolitan-Vickers, Metrovick, or Metrovicks, was a British heavy electrical engineering company of the early-to-mid 20th century formerly known as British Westinghouse. Highly diversified, they were particularly well known for their industrial electrical equipment such as generators, steam...
- Midland Railway Carriage and Wagon CompanyMidland Railway Carriage and Wagon CompanyThe Midland Railway Carriage and Wagon Company was a Birmingham, England, based manufacturer of railway carriages and wagons. It was not part of the Midland Railway.Its products also included trams and even military tanks....
- Motor RailMotor RailMotor Rail was a British locomotive-building company, based in Bedford. Formed in 1911 as The Motor Rail & Tramcar Co Ltd, they built petrol and diesel engined locomotives, mainly narrow gauge. During World War I over 900 locos were supplied for use on temporary military supply railways...
- Muir-HillMuir-HillMuir Hill Ltd, started in the early 1920s as a general engineering company based in Old Trafford, Manchester, England. Best known for the production of simple rail locomotives and in the company's later life high horse power tractors, with production of Dumpers post war.-History:Amongst other...
- Nasmyth, Gaskell and CompanyNasmyth, Gaskell and CompanyNasmyth, Gaskell and Company, originally called The Bridgewater Foundry, specialised in the production of heavy machine tools and locomotives. It was located in Patricroft, in Salford England, close to the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the Bridgewater Canal and the Manchester Ship Canal...
- Neilson Reid
- North British Locomotive CompanyNorth British Locomotive CompanyThe North British Locomotive Company was created in 1903 through the merger of three Glasgow locomotive manufacturing companies; Sharp Stewart and Company , Neilson, Reid and Company and Dübs and Company , creating the largest locomotive manufacturing company in Europe.Its main factories were...
- Peckett and SonsPeckett and SonsPeckett and Sons was a locomotive manufacturer at the Atlas Works in St. George, Bristol, England.-Fox, Walker and Company:The company began trading in 1864 at the Atlas Engine Works, St. George, Bristol, as Fox, Walker and Company, building four and six-coupled saddle tank engines for industrial use...
- Pressed SteelPressed Steel CompanyThe Pressed Steel Company Limited was a British car body manufacturing company founded at Cowley near Oxford in 1926 as a joint venture between William Morris, the Budd Corporation and an American bank. Today at what was the company's Cowley plant, the BMW new MINI is assembled, this site is...
(multiple units/coaching stock) - R and W HawthornR and W HawthornR and W Hawthorn Ltd was a locomotive manufacturer in Newcastle upon Tyne, England from 1817 until 1880.-Locomotive building:Robert Hawthorne first began business at Forth Bank Works in 1817, building marine and stationary steam engines. In 1820, his brother joined him and the firm became R and W...
to 1870 - Ruston & HornsbyRuston (engine builder)Ruston & Hornsby, later known as Ruston, was an industrial equipment manufacturer in Lincoln, England, the company's history going back to 1840. The company is best known as a manufacturer of narrow and standard gauge diesel locomotives and also of steam shovels. Other products included cars, steam...
- Sentinel Waggon WorksSentinel Waggon WorksSentinel Waggon Works Ltd was a British company based in Shrewsbury, Shropshire that made steam-powered lorries, railway locomotives, and later, diesel engined lorries and locomotives.-Alley & MacLellan, Sentinel Works, Jessie Street Glasgow:...
- Robert Stephensons and Hawthorns
- Robert Stephenson and CompanyRobert Stephenson and CompanyRobert Stephenson and Company was a locomotive manufacturing company founded in 1823. It was the first company set up specifically to build railway engines.- Foundation and early success :...
- Sharp, Roberts and CompanySharp, Roberts and CompanySharp, Stewart and Company was a steam locomotive manufacturer, initially based in Manchester, England. The company was formed in 1843 upon the demise of Sharp, Roberts & Co. and moved to Glasgow, Scotland in 1888, eventually amalgamating with two other Glasgow-based locomotive manufacturers to...
; became Sharp Brothers and Company in 1843; Sharp, Stewart and Company in 1852; to North British Locomotive Company in 1903. - Thomas Hill (Rotherham) LtdThomas Hill (Rotherham) LtdThomas Hill Limited was a company which repaired and sold steam road vehicles, diesel and electric road vehicles and railway locomotives. It later made its name building and rebuilding diesel locomotives.-History:...
- Tulk and LeyTulk and LeyTulk and Ley was a 19th century iron mining company in west Cumbria which also ran an engineering works at Lowca near Whitehaven.-Overview:Established on the Lowca site in 1800 as "Heslops, Milward, Johnston & Co."- the engineering and ironfounding expertise coming from the brothers Adam, Thomas &...
- Vulcan FoundryVulcan FoundryVulcan Foundry was a British locomotive builder sited at Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire .-History:It was originally opened in 1832 as Charles Tayleur and Company to produce girders for bridges, switches and crossings, and other ironwork following the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway...
- Walker BrothersWalker BrothersWalker Bros. is a series of pancake houses in the Chicago area.They developed as a franchised spin-off of The Original Pancake House, founded in Portland, Oregon in 1953 by Les Highet and Erma Hueneke; the Walker Bros. version has been in business for over 45 years...
- narrow gauge for IrelandCounty Donegal Railways Joint CommitteeThe County Donegal Railways Joint Committee operated an extensive 3 foot gauge railway system serving county Donegal, Ireland,from 1906 until 1960... - D Wickham & Co
- Wingrove & RogersWingrove & RogersWingrove & Rogers Ltd of Kirkby, Liverpool, built industrial vehicles including both small electrically motorised trolleys and electric locomotives , largely for use in mines and by tunnelling contractors....
- Yorkshire Engine CompanyYorkshire Engine CompanyThe Yorkshire Engine Company was a small independent locomotive manufacturer in Sheffield, England. The Company was formed in 1865 and continued to produce locomotives and carry out general engineering work until 1965...
See also
- List of British railway-owned locomotive builders
- List of early British private locomotive manufacturers
Active companies
- Brookville Equipment Corporation http://www.brookvilleequipment.com/index.htm
- GE Transportation http://www.getransportation.com/na/en/
- Electro-Motive Diesel http://www.emdiesels.com/emdweb/emd_index.jsp
- Wiese http://www.wieseusa.com/index.html
- WabtecWabtecWabtec Corporation is an American company formed by the merger of the Westinghouse Air Brake Company and MotivePower Industries Corporation in 1999....
http://www.wabtec.com/ - Colmar http://www.colmarequipment.com/railroad.shtml
- Harsco CorporationHarsco CorporationHarsco Corporation is a diversified, worldwide industrial company based in the United States. Harsco operates in 54 countries and employs approximately 19,000 people worldwide. The company provides industrial services and engineered products that serve some of the world’s largest and most...
http://www.harscorail.com/ - National Railway Equipment CompanyNational Railway Equipment CompanyNational Railway Equipment Company is a railroad equipment rebuilding and leasing company, headquartered in Mt. Vernon, Illinois. NREC sells rebuilt locomotives to railroad companies worldwide, with an emphasis on the North American market....
http://www.nationalrailway.com - Progress Rail Services CorporationProgress Rail Services CorporationProgress Rail Services Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc. since 2006, is a supplier of railroad and transit system products and services headquartered in Albertville, Alabama, United States...
http://www.progressrail.com - Motive Power & Equipment Solutions, Inc. http://www.railequipmentsolutions.com
- NS Juniata Locomotive Shop (Thorobred Mechanical Services) http://www.nstms.com
Defunct companies
In addition to these, many railroads operating steam locomotives built their own locomotives in their shops. Notable examples include the Baltimore and Ohio RailroadBaltimore and Ohio Railroad
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was one of the oldest railroads in the United States and the first common carrier railroad. It came into being mostly because the city of Baltimore wanted to compete with the newly constructed Erie Canal and another canal being proposed by Pennsylvania, which...
's Mount Clare Shops
Mount Clare Shops
The Mount Clare Shops is the oldest railroad manufacturing complex in the United States, located in Baltimore, Maryland. It was founded by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1829. Mt. Clare was the site of many inventions and innovations in railroad technology. It is presently the site of the...
, Norfolk and Western's Roanoke Shops, Pennsylvania Railroad
Pennsylvania Railroad
The Pennsylvania Railroad was an American Class I railroad, founded in 1846. Commonly referred to as the "Pennsy", the PRR was headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania....
's Altoona Works
Altoona Works
Altoona Works is a large railroad industrial complex in Altoona, Pennsylvania. It was built by the Pennsylvania Railroad to supply the railroad with locomotives, railroad cars and related equipment. For many years it was the largest railroad shop complex in the world.-History:In 1849, PRR...
and the Southern Pacific
Southern Pacific Railroad
The Southern Pacific Transportation Company , earlier Southern Pacific Railroad and Southern Pacific Company, and usually simply called the Southern Pacific or Espee, was an American railroad....
's Sacramento Shops. Estimates of the total Steam locomotive production
Steam locomotive production
- Early 20th Century :Early 20th Century locomotive production in the USA included units made for both domestic and export markets. Foreign market production increased significantly during and immediately after World War I...
in the USA is approximately 175,000 engines.
- Altoona Machine Shops (PRR)
- American Locomotive CompanyAmerican Locomotive CompanyThe American Locomotive Company, often shortened to ALCO or Alco , was a builder of railroad locomotives in the United States.-Early history:...
(ALCO) - Amoskeag Locomotive WorksAmoskeag Locomotive WorksThe Amoskeag Locomotive Works, located in Manchester, New Hampshire, built steam locomotives at the dawn of the railroad era in the United States....
- Appomattox Locomotive Works (operated by Uriah Wells)
- Atlas Car and Manufacturing CompanyAtlas Car and Manufacturing CompanyThe Atlas Car and Manufacturing Company was a manufacturer of small railroad locomotives. The company was based in Cleveland, OH, building equipment from 1896 through the 1960s....
- Baldwin Locomotive WorksBaldwin Locomotive WorksThe Baldwin Locomotive Works was an American builder of railroad locomotives. It was located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, originally, and later in nearby Eddystone, Pennsylvania. Although the company was very successful as a producer of steam locomotives, its transition to the production of...
(later known as Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton) - Brooks Locomotive WorksBrooks Locomotive WorksThe Brooks Locomotive Works manufactured steam railroad locomotives and freight cars from 1869 through its merger into the American Locomotive Company until 1934.-History:...
- Burr and Ettinger
- Cincinnati Locomotive Works (also known as Harkness and as Moore & Richardson)
- Climax Manufacturing Company
- Cooke Locomotive and Machine WorksCooke Locomotive and Machine WorksThe Cooke Locomotive and Machine Works, located in Paterson, New Jersey, manufactured steam railroad locomotives from 1852 until it was merged with seven other manufacturers to form American Locomotive Company in 1901...
- Covington Locomotive Works
- Davenport Locomotive WorksDavenport Locomotive WorksThe Davenport Locomotive Works, of Davenport, Iowa, USA built locomotives from 1902 until 1956. The company acquired the locomotive business of H. K...
- DenmeadDenmead FoundaryDenmead was a Baltimore, Maryland, United States, company that produced about 30 steam locomotives in the 1850s as a sideline to a very successful foundry....
- Dickson Manufacturing CompanyDickson Manufacturing CompanyDickson Manufacturing Company was a manufacturer of boilers and steam engines used in various industries but most known in railway steam locomotives...
- Dunkirk Engineering Company
- Eastwick and Harrison
- Euclid Road Machinery Company
- Fairbanks-Morse
- Globe Locomotive WorksGlobe Locomotive WorksThe Globe Locomotive Works was a late-19th century manufacturer of railroad steam locomotives and other machinery based in Boston, Massachusetts. During that time the firm built some one hundred steam locomotives for railroads throughout the United States...
- Glover Locomotive Works
- Grant Locomotive WorksGrant Locomotive WorksGrant Locomotive Works was a manufacturer of steam railway locomotives from 1867 to 1895, first in Paterson, New Jersey and then in Chicago. The company built approximately 1,888 locomotives.-Predecessors:...
- Heisler Locomotive Works
- Hicks Locomotive and Car WorksHicks Locomotive and Car WorksThe Hicks Locomotive and Car Works was one of many small railway equipment construction companies operating in the United States at the dawn of the 20th century. It stayed in business for only 21 years.- History :...
- Hinkley Locomotive WorksHinkley Locomotive WorksHinkley Locomotive Works was one of a number of railroad steam locomotive manufacturers of the United States in the 19th century.-History:The company that was to become known as Hinkley Locomotive Works got its start in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1831. Holmes Hinkley and his partner Daniel F...
- H. K. Porter, IncH. K. Porter, IncH. K. Porter, Inc. manufactured light-duty railroad locomotives in the USA, starting in 1866. The company became the largest producer of industrial locomotives, and built almost eight thousand of them...
(Smith & Porter, later Porter, Bell & Co) - Ingalls ShipbuildingIngalls ShipbuildingIngalls Shipbuilding is a shipyard located in Pascagoula, Mississippi, USA, originally established in 1938, and is now part of Huntington Ingalls Industries...
- Kentucky Locomotive Works
- Lancaster Locomotive Works
- Lawrence Machine Shop
- Lima Locomotive WorksLima Locomotive WorksLima Locomotive Works was an American firm that manufactured railroad locomotives from the 1870s through the 1950s. The company took the most distinctive part of its name from its main shops location in Lima, Ohio. The shops were located between the Baltimore & Ohio's Cincinnati-Toledo main line...
(later Lima-Hamilton, then Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton) - Locks and Canals Machine Shop
- Lowell Machine Shop
- Manchester Locomotive WorksManchester Locomotive WorksManchester Locomotive Works was a manufacturing company located in Manchester, New Hampshire, that built steam locomotives in the 19th century. The first locomotive they built was for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad in March 1855. In 1901, Manchester and seven other locomotive...
- Mason Machine WorksMason Machine WorksThe Mason Machine Works was a machinery manufacturing company located in Taunton, Massachusetts between 1845 and 1944. The company became famous for an early invention by its creator, William Mason, the self-acting mule, first patented in 1840. The company also later produced locomotives, rifles...
- McQueen Locomotive Works
- Mount Savage Locomotive WorksMount Savage Locomotive WorksThe Mount Savage Locomotive Works was a railroad workshop established at Mount Savage, Maryland, USA. The Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad locomotive shops were established in Mt. Savage in 1866, under the direction of James Millholland. The original locomotive shop was constructed of stone and...
- Nashville Manufacturing Company
- Newcastle Manufacturing Company
- New Jersey Locomotive and Machine Company (began as Swinburne & Smith)
- New York Locomotive Works (also known as Breese, Kneeland & Company)
- Niles and Company
- Norris Locomotive WorksNorris Locomotive WorksThe Norris Locomotive Works was a steam locomotive manufacturing company based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that produced about a thousand railroad engines between 1832 and 1866. It was the dominant American locomotive producer during most of that period, and even sold its popular 4-2-0 engines...
- Pittsburgh Locomotive and Car WorksPittsburgh Locomotive and Car WorksThe 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 repaired an early locomotive known as Bausman's Rhinoceros in April 1867....
- Plymouth Locomotive WorksPlymouth Locomotive WorksPlymouth Locomotive Works was a US builder of small railroad locomotives. All Plymouth locomotives were built in a plant in Plymouth, Ohio until 1997 when the company was purchased by Ohio Locomotive Crane and production moved to Bucyrus, Ohio in 1999...
- Portland CompanyPortland CompanyThe Portland Company was established 10 November 1846 by John A. Poor and Norris Locomotive Works engineer Septimus Norris as a locomotive foundry to build railroad equipment for the adjacent Portland terminus of the Atlantic and St. Lawrence Railroad connection between Portland, Maine and...
- Republic Locomotive Works
- Rhode Island Locomotive WorksRhode Island Locomotive WorksRhode Island Locomotive Works was a steam locomotive manufacturing company of the 19th century located in Providence, Rhode Island. The factory produced more than 3,400 locomotives between 1867 and 1906, when the plants locomotive production was shut down...
- Richmond Locomotive WorksRichmond Locomotive WorksRichmond Locomotive Works was a steam locomotive manufacturing firm located in Richmond, Virginia. It began operation in 1887 and produced approximately 4,500 engines during its 40 years of operation...
- Rogers Locomotive and Machine WorksRogers Locomotive and Machine WorksRogers Locomotive and Machine Works was a 19th-century manufacturer of railroad steam locomotives based in Paterson, in Passaic County, New Jersey, in the United States. It built more than six thousand steam locomotives for railroads around the world. Most railroads in 19th-century United States...
(also known as Rogers, Ketchum & Grosvenor) - Rome Locomotive Works (New York)
- Ross WinansRoss WinansRoss Winans was an American inventor, mechanic, and builder of locomotives and railroad machinery. He is also noted for design of pioneering cigar-hulled ships. Winans, one of the United States' first multi-millionaires, was involved in politics and was a vehement states' rights advocate...
Locomotive Works - Schenectady Locomotive WorksSchenectady Locomotive WorksThe Schenectady Locomotive Works built railroad locomotives from its founding in 1848 through its merger into American Locomotive Company in 1901.After the 1901 merger, ALCO made the Schenectady plant its headquarters in Schenectady, New York....
- St. Louis Car CompanySt. Louis Car CompanyThe St. Louis Car Company was a major United States manufacturer of railroad passenger cars, streetcars, trolleybuses and locomotives that existed from 1887–1973, based in St. Louis, Missouri.-History:...
- SwinburneWilliam SwinburneWilliam Swinburne was a pioneering builder of steam locomotives in the United States.Swinburne was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1805. By 1833 he had moved to Paterson, New Jersey, where, in 1837 he was employed by Rogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor as a pattern maker. He left Rogers employ in 1848...
(William Swinburne left New Jersey L&MCo to form his own company) - Talbott and Brother Iron Works
- Taunton Locomotive Manufacturing CompanyTaunton Locomotive Manufacturing CompanyThe Taunton Locomotive Manufacturing Company was one of the earliest firms in the United States established especially for the manufacture of steam locomotives. Located in Taunton, Massachusetts, the company was organized in 1849 and incorporated the following year by William A. Crocker, Willard W....
- T. H. Paul & Sons
- Tredegar Iron WorksTredegar Iron WorksThe Tredegar Iron Works was a historic iron foundry in Richmond, Virginia, United States of America, opened in 1837. During the American Civil War, the works served as the primary iron and artillery production facility of the Confederate States of America...
- United AircraftUnited Aircraft and Transport CorporationThe United Aircraft and Transport Corporation was formed in 1929, when William Boeing of the Boeing firms teamed up with Frederick Rentschler of Pratt & Whitney to form a large, amalgamated firm, uniting business interests in all aspects of aviation—a combination of aircraft engine and airframe...
- Virginia Locomotive and Car Works (also known as Smith & Perkins)
- Vulcan Iron WorksVulcan Iron WorksSince Vulcan was the Roman god of fire and smithery, the name was an obvious choice for an iron foundry or mechanical engineering works in the nineteenth century, both in England, the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, and in the United States.-England:...
- West Point FoundryWest Point FoundryThe West Point Foundry was an early ironworks in Cold Spring, New York that operated from 1817 to 1911. Set up to remedy deficiencies in national armaments production after the War of 1812, it became most famous for its production of Parrott rifles and other munitions during the Civil War, although...
- Westinghouse Electric Corporation (WEMCO)
- Whitcomb Locomotive WorksWhitcomb Locomotive WorksWhitcomb Locomotive Works was founded by George Dexter Whitcomb , of Chicago, Illinois, who started a modest machine shop in 1878, and began the manufacture of coal mining machinery, laying the foundation for the concern that became known as The Whitcomb Locomotive Company.-Beginnings:Mr. Whitcomb...
- Wilmarth
Uruguay
- CIR S.A. http://www.ciruy.com/?do=home&setbranch=metal
- Servi Piezas http://www.ciruy.com/?do=home&setbranch=servipiezas
External links
- Jernbanen.dk - Lokomotivfabrikker - List of builders of Danish locomotives (in Danish)
- Steam Locomotive Builders from Steamlocomotive dot Com