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Dickson advertisement from the 1870s
Dickson Manufacturing Company was a manufacturer of boilers and steam engines used in various industries but most known in railway steam locomotives. It was in founded in Scranton, Pennsylvania by Thomas Dickson in 1856.
The company maintained its main offices and shops on Penn Avenue in Scranton, a locomotive shop at the "Cliff Works" in Scranton, a shop in Wilkes-Barre, and an office in New York City.
In 1901 the company was merged with seven other manufacturing firms to form American Locomotive Company (ALCO). Alco ceased locomotive production at the former Dickson works in 1909.
The former shops still stand, and are featured in the opening sequence of the television show "The Office," which is set in Scranton.
Preserved Dickson locomotives
The following locomotives (in serial number order) built by Dickson before the ALCO merger have been preserved.[1] All locations are in the United States unless stated otherwise.
The Dickson Manufacturing Company also designed and constructed steam powered mine cable hoists.
Serial number Wheel arrangement
(Whyte notation)Build date Operational owner(s) Disposition 1005 0-6-2T August 1898 J. B. Levert #5 Enterprise Plantation, Patoutville, Louisiana See also
References
- ^ Sunshine Software, Steam Locomotive Information. Retrieved October 30, 2005.
Locomotive manufacturing predecessors of American Locomotive Company 1901 merger Later acquisitions North American locomotive builders ALCO • Alco-GE • Altoona Works • Atlas • Baldwin • Bombardier • Brooks • Brookville • CLC • Climax • Cooke • Davenport • Dickson • EMD • Fairbanks-Morse • GE Transportation • GMD • Globe • Grant • Harlan and Hollingsworth • Hinkley • Ingalls • Jewett • Lima • Manchester • Mason • MLW • Mount Clare Shops • Mount Savage • NREC • Norris • Pittsburgh • Porter • Portland • Progress Rail Services • Railpower • Rhode Island • Richmond • Rogers • Schenectady • SLCC • Taunton • Tredegar • Vulcan • Wabtec • Westinghouse • Whitcomb • WillametteSee also: List of locomotive builders Categories:- United States train and rolling stock stubs
- Locomotive manufacturers of the United States
- Scranton, Pennsylvania
- Companies established in 1856
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