American Locomotive Company 0-4-0 T Poster

From www.railphotoexpress.biz; American Locomotive Company 1910 Standard Four Wheel Tank Locomotive for Contractors and Industrial Service. For service consisting mainly of short runs at low speeds. The ability to start and reverse quickly is of first importance and the entire weight should be carried on the driving wheels. This Small Steam Locomotive can use Coal or Fuel oil. Alco was the second-largest steam locomotive builder in the United States (after Baldwin), producing over 75,000 locomotives . Among these were a large number of well-known locomotives. Railroads that favored Alco products included the Delaware and Hudson Railway, the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, the New York Central Railroad, the Union Pacific Railroad and the Southern Pacific Railroad. During World War II, ALCO produced army tanks (7,362 of them), tank destroyers, shells, bombs, gun carriages, gun mounts and 4,488 locomotives. Employment increased three fold to over 15,000 people by 1945.