An Alco Big Boy, 73 years after it rolled off the production line in Schenectady, and 53 years after it was retired by the Union Pacific, is gearing up for another trip. One of 25 mammoth steam ...

Schenectady was known as the city that lights and hauls the world. The General Electric Co., of course, was the lighting part. The American Locomotive Company was the hauling part. Next Sunday, ...

DUNKIRK — Brooks Locomotive Works, an exhibition of photography and artifacts focusing on the Brooks Locomotive Works, is on display at the Fredonia Technology Incubator from Jan. 22 to March 20. A ...

Editor’s Note: Robert J. McCarthy Jr., a former Scotia resident and career journalist who now works at The Buffalo News, fondly remembers his family’s association with the American Locomotive Co.

An 1870 image of the Brooks Locomotive Works in Dunkirk, NY. 2019 marks the 150th Annirsary of Haratio Brooks taking over the locomtive works and a special lecture on the topic will take place Aug. 21 ...