Manchester Locomotive Works was a manufacturing company located in Manchester, New Hampshire

Manchester, New Hampshire

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, that built steam locomotives in the 19th century. The first locomotive they built was for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad

Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad

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 in March 1855. In 1901, Manchester and seven other locomotive manufacturing firms merged to form American Locomotive Company

American Locomotive Company

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 (ALCO). Locomotive production ceased in 1913.

The Manchester Locomotive Works took over the building of the Amoskeag Steam Fire Engine from the Amoskeag Works in 1876.

Preserved Manchester locomotives

The following locomotives (listed in serial number order) built by Manchester before the ALCO merger have been preserved. All locations are in the United States

United States

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 unless otherwise noted.

Serial number	Wheel arrangement (Whyte notation Whyte notation The Whyte notation for classifying steam locomotives by wheel arrangement was devised by Frederick Methvan Whyte and came into use in the early twentieth century encouraged by an editorial in American Engineer and Railroad Journal... )	Build date	Operational owner(s)	Disposition
unknown	0-2-2-0 (cog)	1875	Mount Washington Cog Railway #2	Mount Washington Cog Railway, Mount Washington, New Hampshire
unknown	0-2-2-0 (cog)	1878	Mount Washington Cog Railway #6	Mount Washington Cog Railway, Mount Washington, New Hampshire
unknown	0-2-2-0 (cog)	1883	Mount Washington Cog Railway #1	Mount Washington Cog Railway, Mount Washington, New Hampshire
unknown	0-2-2-0 (cog)	1883	Mount Washington Cog Railway #3	Mount Washington Cog Railway, Mount Washington, New Hampshire
unknown	0-2-2-0 (cog)	1883	Mount Washington Cog Railway #4	Mount Washington Cog Railway, Mount Washington, New Hampshire
unknown	0-2-2-0 (cog)	1892	Mount Washington Cog Railway #8	Mount Washington Cog Railway, Mount Washington, New Hampshire
1546	4-4-0 4-4-0 Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, 4-4-0 represents the wheel arrangement of four leading wheels on two axles , four powered and coupled driving wheels on two axles, and no trailing wheels...	July 1892	Boston and Maine Railroad Boston and Maine Railroad The Boston and Maine Corporation , known as the Boston and Maine Railroad until 1964, was the dominant railroad of the northern New England region of the United States for a century...  #494	Central Vermont station, White River Junction, Vermont White River Junction, Vermont White River Junction is an unincorporated village and census-designated place in the town of Hartford in Windsor County, Vermont, United States...