City officials and ALCO employees marched down State Street together on April 10, 1943, honoring the company's war effort. The Schenectady ALCO plant had as many as 11,000 workers during World War II.
Former American Locomotive employees are being invited by the ALCO Heritage Museum to share their memories of the plant that for more than 100 years dominated the city landscape along Maxon Road. Saturday from 10 a.m. until noon at Niskayuna High School, oral histories will be collected and later deposited with the ALCO Heritage Museum on Maxon Road Extension.