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Alco locomotive plant
The former Alco site off Erie Boulevard in Schenectady will soon be cleared to make way for redevelopment of the Mohawk River waterfront. More than 75,000 locomotives were produced by Alco. Photos offer a look at the plant through the years. Posted on October 14, 2010.
American Locomotive Company executives and managers pull the steam locomotive “Big Boy” out of its bay on the grounds of the Alco plant in 1941. The engine weighed 596 tons and could travel as fast as 80 mph.
This image of Alco and the Erie Canal was taken after the New York Central Railroad tracks were raised in 1907 and before traffic on the canal began waning in 1915.
A recent photo of the tower section of former Alco Building 62 shows the letters spelling out American Locomotive.
Striking American Locomotive Company workers in 1917 walk down Nott Street through the Alco plant.
Workers putting up Alco Building 62 paused for the camera in this 1904 photograph.
The original Alco property between the Mohawk River and Erie Boulevard is shown in this photo taken from the rooftop of the Golub Corp. headquarters at Nott Street and Maxon Road.
Alco was busy making diesel locomotives in 1958 as this photograph inside Building 62 illustrates.
