List of locomotive builders
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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.
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Canada
- Bombardier Transportation - Montreal QC
- Canadian Locomotive Company - Kingston ON
- General Motors Diesel Division - London ON
- Montreal Locomotive Works - Montreal QC
- RailPower Technologies
Czech Republic
Denmark
Finland
Germany
India
Sweden
United Kingdom
Historically, major railways in the United Kingdom 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.
- Andrew Barclay
- Armstrong Whitworth
- Bagnall
- Beyer Peacock
- Birmingham Railway Carriage & Wagon Company
- BREL
- British Thomson-Houston
- Brush Traction
- Clayton Equipment Company
- Cravens (multiple units/coaching stock)
- Dübs
- English Electric
- Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Company (multiple units/coaching stock)
- Hawthorne Leslie
- Hudswell Clarke
- Hunslet-Barclay
- Hunslet Engine Company
- Kerr Stuart
- Kitson
- Manning Wardle
- Metro-Cammell (multiple units/coaching stock)
- Metropolitan Vickers
- Midland Railway Carriage and Wagon Company
- Neilson Reid
- North British Locomotive Company
- Pressed Steel (multiple units/coaching stock)
- Robert Stephenson & Co
- Ruston & Hornsby
- Sentinel Waggon Works
- Sharp Stewart
- Vulcan Foundry
- Yorkshire Engine Company
United States
Active companies
- Brookville Locomotive Company
- Cummins Engine Company
- Fairbanks-Morse (the company still exists, but they aren't manufacturing new locomotives)
- GE Transportation Systems
- Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD, formerly GM EMD)
- MotivePower Industries (Formerly Morrison Knudsen Rail Corp.)
Defunct companies
In addition to these, many railroads operating steam locomotives built their own locomotives in their shops. Notable examples include the 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.
- American Locomotive Company (ALCO)
- Amoskeag Locomotive Works
- Appomattox Locomotive Works (operated by Uriah Wells)
- Atlas Car and Manufacturing Company
- Baldwin Locomotive Works (later known as Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton)
- Brooks Locomotive Works
- Burr and Ettinger
- Cincinnati Locomotive Works (also known as Harkness and as Moore & Richardson)
- Climax Manufacturing Company
- Cooke Locomotive and Machine Works
- Covington Locomotive Works
- Davenport Locomotive Works
- Denmead
- Dickson Manufacturing Company
- Dunkirk Engineering Company
- Eastwick and Harrison
- Euclid Road Machinery Company
- Globe Locomotive Works
- Grant Locomotive Works
- Heisler Locomotive Works
- Hinkley Locomotive Works
- H. K. Porter, Inc (Smith & Porter, later Porter, Bell & Co)
- Ingalls Shipbuilding
- Kentucky Locomotive Works
- Lancaster Locomotive Works
- Lawrence Machine Shop
- Lima Locomotive Works (later Lima-Hamilton, then Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton)
- Locks and Canals Machine Shop
- Lowell Machine Shop
- Manchester Locomotive Works
- Mason Machine Works
- Mount Savage Locomotive Works
- 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 Works
- Pittsburgh Locomotive and Car Works
- Plymouth Locomotive Works
- Portland Company
- Republic Locomotive Works
- Rhode Island Locomotive Works
- Richmond Locomotive Works
- Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works (also known as Rogers, Ketchum & Grosvenor)
- Rome Locomotive Works (New York)
- Ross Winans Locomotive Works
- Schenectady Locomotive Works
- St. Louis Car Company
- Swinburne (William Swinburne left New Jersey L&MCo to form his own company)
- Talbott and Brother Iron Works
- Taunton Locomotive and Manufacturing Company
- Tredegar Iron Works
- United Aircraft
- Virginia Locomotive and Car Works (also known as Smith & Perkins)
- Vulcan Iron Works
- West Point Foundry
- Westinghouse Electric Corporation (WEMCO)
- Whitcomb Locomotive Works
- Wilmarth
External links
- Jernbanen.dk - Lokomotivfabrikker (http://www.jernbanen.dk/fabrikker.asp) - List of builders of Danish locomotives (in Danish)
- Steam Locomotive Builders (http://www.steamlocomotive.com/builders/) from Steamlocomotive dot Com (http://www.steamlocomotive.com/)