List of locomotive builders

This list of locomotive builders (companies, government agencies and railways) is ordered by country and includes both modern-day and defunct builders. Since many entities changed their names over time, the most recognisable name is used – generally the one used for the longest time or during the entity's best-known period. Note: Two factors affect this list's reliability: the preponderance of unreferenced entries and the inconsistency in frequency and coverage of updates.

Argentina

Active companies Grupo Emepa Material Ferroviario

Defunct companies Astarsa Fábrica Argentina de Locomotoras GAIA

Australia Australia's mainline railways, owned by the governments of the six British colonies, imported locomotives from the United Kingdom and United States. Domestic production, by companies and railways alike, began about 1890, though locomotives continued to be imported after that.

Active companies Alstom, Dandenong Downer Rail, Cardiff, Maryborough & Newport UGL Rail, Broadmeadow formerly United Group Rail, United Goninan and A Goninan Alstom, Ballarat, Newport, Epping, North Ryde, Perth, Brisbane

Defunct companies AE Goodwin, Granville Avteq, Sunshine Cardiff Locomotive Workshops Chullora Railway Workshops Clyde Engineering, Granville, Kelso, Somerton, Eagle Farm, Rosewater & Forrestfield, taken over by Evans Deakin Industries July 1996, became part of Downer Rail in March 2001 Comeng, Clyde, Dandenong & Bassendean EM Baldwin, Castle Hill (not the American company) - built mainly small sugar cane and mining tram engines English Electric Australia, Rocklea Evans, Anderson, Phelan & Co, Kangaroo Point Eveleigh Railway Workshops, Redfern Islington Railway Workshops James Martin & Company, Gawler Martin & King, Somerton Midland Railway Workshops, Perth Mine Technic Australia Morrison-Knudsen Australia National Railway Equipment Company, Islington North Ipswich Railway Workshops Perry Engineering, Mile End Phoenix Engine Company, Ipswich Springall & Frost, Ipswich Tulloch Limited, Rhodes Walkers Limited, Maryborough

Azerbaijan Baku Carriage Repair Factory Baku Metro STP-Wagon-Building Factory

Belgium

Active companies Alstom Charleroi – formerly ACEC Transport Bombardier Transportation Brugge – formerly BN-Eurorail, formerly La Brugeoise et Nivelles John Cockerill - former CMI

Defunct companies Ateliers de Tubize Ateliers de la Meuse Société Anglo-Franco-Belge Société de Saint-Léonard

Brazil Companhia Brasileira de Materiais Ferroviários Mafersa EIF EMD (Progress Rail/ Caterpillar) Wabtec (formerly GE Transportation)

Bulgaria Express Service

Canada

Active companies Bombardier Transportation – Berlin-based division of Alstom (no locomotives produced in Canada) Cando Rail & Terminals – Brandon, Manitoba Railpower Technologies – Vancouver, British Columbia – subsidiary of R.J. Corman Railroad Group since 2009

Defunct companies Canadian Locomotive Company – Kingston, Ontario – Fairbanks-Morse (Canada) Ltd 1965 and ceased operations 1969 General Motors Diesel Division – London, Ontario – later as Electro-Motive Diesel Canadian operations and ceased production by Progress Rail in 2012 Montreal Locomotive Works – Montreal, Quebec – formerly part of American Locomotive Company, acquired by Bombardier Inc in 1975 but ended locomotive production 1985 Urban Transportation Development Corporation – Toronto, Ontario – former Crown corporation

Chile Casagrande Motori

China

Active companies CRRC

Defunct companies China CNR - merged into CRRC CSR Corporation - merged into CRRC

Croatia Končar

Czech Republic ČKD (Českomoravská Kolben-Daněk) CZ LOKO Škoda Transportation Škoda Works

Denmark ABB Frichs Pedershaab Triangel

Finland Lokomo Rautaruukki Oyj Saalasti Oy Škoda Transtech Tampella Valmet Valtionrautatiet (Finnish State Railways)

France

Commercial manufacturers Alcard, Buddicom et Cie. Alsthom (now Alstom) Anciens Établissements Cail – 1883–1898, became SFCM André Koechlin et Cie. – to SACM in 1872 Ateliers du Nord de la France (ANF) – also known as Blanc-Misseron; acquired by Bombardier Transportation in 1989 Brissonneau & Lotz – acquired by Alstom in 1972 Buffault et Robatel Charbonniers et Cie CFD Compagnie des forges et aciéries de la marine et d'Homécourt Compagnie Electro-Méchanique – acquired by Alstom in 1985 Compagnie générale de construction de locomotives – Batignolles-Châtillon, Nantes, founded 1917 Corpet-Louvet – 1889–1952 Etablissment Cavé – to Charbonniers et Cie. in 1854 Etablissment Claprède Fives-Lille – merged into Fives-Lille Cail in 1958 Schneider-Creusot – now Schneider Electric Société Alsacienne de Constructions Mécaniques (SACM) Société Ch. Derosne et Cail – 1836–1848, became Société J. F. Cail & Cie. Société de Construction des Batignolles, Paris – founded 1871, ceased locomotive production 1928, merged into Spie Batignolles in 1968 Société française de constructions mécaniques (SFCM) – created in 1898, merged into Fives-Lille Cail in 1958 Société Franco-Belge Société J. F. Cail & Cie – 1850–1883, became Anciens Établissements Cail Société Nouvelle des Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée

Railway company workshops Arles (1899–1904) – PLM La Chapelle, Paris – Chemins de Fer du Nord Épernay (1854–1970) – Chemins de fer de l'Est Hellennes, Lille – Chemins de Fer du Nord Ivry – PLM Nîmes (1856–1858) – Chemin de fer de Lyon à la Méditerranée, later Chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée (PLM) Ouillins (1863–1914) – PLM Paris (1909–1920) – PLM Sotteville, Rouen – Chemins de fer de l'Ouest from 1909) Vilnius locomotive repair depot

Georgia Elmavalmshenebeli (TEVZ)

Germany

Active companies Bombardier Transportation Fahrzeugtechnik Dessau Interlock steam Robel Bahnbaumaschinen Schalker Eisenhütte Maschinenfabrik Schöma Siemens Mobility Voith Vossloh Windhoff

Defunct companies Adtranz – now part of Bombardier AEG – now part of Bombardier AG Vulcan Stettin Berliner Maschinenbau Gmeinder Hanomag Henschel - acquired by Adtranz Hohenzollern Locomotive Works KraussMaffei Krupp LEW Hennigsdorf – formerly Borsig Lokomotiv Werke, formerly AEG, now part of Bombardier Maschinenbau Kiel (MaK) - acquired by Siemens, now part of Vossloh Maschinenfabrik Esslingen Maschinenfabrik L. Schwartzkopff Orenstein & Koppel Schichau-Werke Waggonfabrik Talbot - now part of Bombardier Grafenstaden

Greece Basileiades Skaramagas Hellenic Shipyards Co. Eleuisis Shipyards Siemens Hellas Kioleidis

Hungary Ganz MÁVAG

India

Active companies Chittaranjan Locomotive Works Banaras Locomotive Works Patiala Locomotive Works Electric Locomotive Factory, Madhepura Diesel Locomotive Factory, Marhowrah Rolling Stock Workshop, Dahod Central Railway Locomotive Workshop, Parel Eastern Railway Locomotive Workshop, Jamalpur Golden Rock Railway Workshop Electric Loco Assembly & Ancillary Unit (ELAAU), Dankuni Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited Bharat Earth Movers Limited Integral Coach Factory, Chennai Rail Coach Factory, Kapurthala Modern Coach Factory, Raebareli Titagarh Rail Systems Medha Servo Drives Kinet Railway Solutions SAN Engineering & Locomotive Company Ovis Equipments Private Limited Phooltas Transrail Limited

Defunct companies TATA Engineering and Locomotive Company (TELCO) Jessop & Company

Indonesia Industri Kereta Api

Iran

Mapna Locomotive Engineering and Manufacturing Company Wagon Pars

Italy

Active companies Alstom Ferroviaria S.p.A. – Savigliano Bombardier Transportation Italy – Vado Ligure Hitachi Rail Italy (formerly Ansaldo Breda) Firema Trasporti Ipe Valente

Defunct companies Fiat Ferroviaria Officine Casaralta Società Italiana Ernesto Breda - Later Breda Costruzioni Ferroviarie, merged with Ansaldo as AnsaldoBreda, now Hitachi Rail Italy Gio. Ansaldo & C. - Merged into AnsaldoBreda, now Hitachi Rail Italy

Japan Hitachi Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Toshiba Nippon Sharyo J-TREC (former Tokyu Car Co.) Kinki Sharyo Alna Sharyo Niigata Transys Kokura Kisha Seizō

Latvia

Defunct Companies Rīgas Vagonbūves Rūpnīca

Malaysia SMH Rail Sdn Bhd

Netherlands

Active companies Bemo Rail, Warmenhuizen

Defunct companies Allan N.V. Heemaf Spoorijzer Werkspoor

New Zealand

Active companies A&G Price

Defunct companies Dispatch & Garlick EW Mills Gibbons & Harris OW Smith Scott Engineering Union Foundry Du Croo & Brauns

North Korea Kim Chong-t'ae Electric Locomotive Works

Pakistan Pakistan Locomotive Factory

Philippines

Defunct companies Manila Railroad Company's Caloocan Works — The Manila Railroad once made its own railmotors at the Caloocan yards from 1924 to 1949. It also assembled two 630 class 2-8-2 locomotives with parts acquired from the War Assets Administration in 1948. Ramcar, Inc. — Also constructed and assembled railmotors alongside the MRR. Although it still survives as the Ramcar Group of Companies, its rolling stock business ended during World War II.

Poland

Active companies Bombardier Transportation Bumar Fablok H. Cegielski (Poznań) Newag Pesa

Defunct companies Pafawag – now part of Bombardier

Portugal Sorefame - acquired by ABB, then ADtranz, now part of Bombardier

Romania Electroputere – Craiova RELOC | Passion for locomotives FAUR – Bucharest Promat – Craiova Softronic – Craiova UCM Reşiţa – Reşiţa Romania Euroest S.A. – Constanța

Russia

Active Companies Kambarka Engineering Works Kirov Plant Muromteplovoz Sinara Group Kalugaputmash Lyudinovsky Locomotive Plant Ural Locomotives Transmashholding Bryansk Machine-Building Plant Demikhovo Machinebuilding Plant Kolomna Locomotive Works Metrowagonmash Novocherkassk Electric Locomotive Factory (NEVZ)

Defunct Companies Torzhok Carriage Works Vagonmash

Serbia Goša FOM Mašinska Industrija Niš (MIN)

Slovakia Avokov ZOŠ - Vrútky

South Africa DCD Group Girdlestone Steam Transnet Engineering Union Carriage & Wagon Grindrod Locomotives Prof Pty Ltd Engineers Trident South Africa Prof Pty Ltd Engineers

South Korea Hyundai Rotem Woojin Industrial Systems

Spain

Active companies CAF Stadler Rail Talgo

Defunct companies ATEINSA. Became part of the GEC-Alstom group (now Alstom) in 1989. Babcock & Wilcox Euskalduna La Maquinista Terrestre y Marítima (MTM). Became part of the GEC-Alstom group (now Alstom) in 1989. MACOSA. Became part of the GEC-Alstom group (now Alstom) in 1989, until 2005 when it became part of the Vossloh group. The plant was sold to Stadler in 2015.

Sweden ASEA – later ABB, later Adtranz; rail business sold to Bombardier in 2001 Helsingborgs Mekaniska Verkstad Ljunggrens Verkstad Munktells Mekaniska Verkstad NOHAB

Switzerland DLM AG, Dampflokomotiv- und Maschinenfabrik AG Ferdinand Steck Maschinenfabrik Stadler Rail

Defunct companies Brown, Boveri & Cie – later ABB, later Adtranz; rail business sold to Bombardier in 2001 SIG (1853–1995) Swiss Locomotive & Machine Works (SLM) – closed in 2001, parts taken over by Stadler Rail, DLM and Prose

Taiwan Taiwan Rolling Stock Company

Defunct companies Tang Eng Iron Works (Manufacturing of rolling stock has been ceased and transferred to Taiwan Rolling Stock Co.)

Turkey EUROTEM TÜRASAŞ

Defunct companies TÜVASAŞ TÜLOMSAŞ TÜDEMSAŞ

Ukraine Kryukiv Railway Car Building Works Luhanskteplovoz Kharkiv Locomotive Factory (KhPZ)

United Kingdom Historically, major railways in the United Kingdom built the vast majority of their 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 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.

Active companies Alan Keef – narrow-gauge diesel/steam locomotives, permanent way Bombardier Transportation – electric multiple units, diesel multiple units; Derby Brush-Barclay – Kilmarnock; part of Wabtec Brush Traction – diesel and electric locomotives; Loughborough; part of Wabtec Clayton Equipment Company – diesel/electric/battery locomotives Cowans Sheldon – railway cranes Exmoor Steam Railway – narrow-gauge steam locomotives Ffestiniog Railway – narrow-gauge steam locomotives and carriages Hitachi Rail – diesel and electric locomotives, carriages Hunslet Engine Company – diesel locomotives, narrow-gauge steam locomotives; part of Wabtec Rhino Industries – narrow-gauge diesel/steam locomotives, new build, maintenance Severn Lamb – narrow gauge diesel/steam/steam outline locomotives, carriages, and track infrastructure Steam Loco Design TMA Engineering – narrow-gauge diesel locomotives Ravenglass & Eskdale - has made own locomotive, see this page

Defunct companies 5AT project – steam for the 21st century Andrew Barclay Sons & Company Armstrong Whitworth Aveling & Porter Avonside Engine Company Baguley Cars - acquired by Drewry Car Company in 1962 William Beardmore & Company Beyer, Peacock & Company Birmingham Railway Carriage & Wagon Company Black, Hawthorn & Company British Rail Engineering Limited British Electric Vehicles British Thomson-Houston Cravens – multiple units/coaching stock D Wickham & Company Davies & Metcalfe De Winton Drewry Car Company Dübs & Company – to North British Locomotive Company in 1903 English Electric FC Hibberd & Company Fletcher Jennings Fox, Walker & Company – became Peckett & Sons in 1880 George England & Company Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Company – multiple units/coaching stock Grant, Ritchie & Company Greenwood & Batley Hawthorn Leslie & Company – locomotive business sold to Robert Stephenson & Hawthorns in 1937 Hudswell Clarke John Fowler & Company Kerr, Stuart & Company Kitson & Company Manning Wardle Metro-Cammell (multiple units/coaching stock) Metropolitan-Vickers Midland Railway Carriage & Wagon Company Motor Rail Muir-Hill Nasmyth, Gaskell & Company Neilson & Company – became Neilson Reid & Company in 1898; to North British Locomotive Company in 1903 North British Locomotive Company Peckett & Sons Pressed Steel Company – multiple units/coaching stock R&W Hawthorn – to 1870 Ruston & Hornsby Sentinel Waggon Works Robert Stephenson & Company – became Robert Stephenson & Hawthorns in 1937 Robert Stephenson & Hawthorns Sharp, Roberts & Company – became Sharp Brothers & Company in 1843; Sharp, Stewart & Company in 1852; to North British Locomotive Company in 1903 Stephen Lewin Thomas Hill Tulk and Ley Vulcan Foundry WG Bagnall Walker Brothers Wingrove & Rogers Yorkshire Engine Company See also:

List of British railway-owned locomotive builders List of early British private locomotive manufacturers

United States

Active companies Brookville Equipment Corporation Process Locomotives Colmar Electro-Motive Diesel GE Transportation Harsco Corporation Katiland Trains Kloke Locomotive Works Knoxville Locomotive Works Merrick Light Railway Motive Power & Equipment Solutions - No Longer in service. National Railway Equipment Company NS Juniata Locomotive Shop (Thoroughbred Mechanical Services) Progress Rail Quality Rail Service Corporation Railserve Leaf RELCO Locomotives Republic Transportation Systems Siemens Mobility Train Rides Unlimited Tweetsie Railroad – official source for Crown Metal Products parts Wabtec – Amusement Rides Manufacturer specializing in Locomotives, Carousels, and Railroad Installation Wiese

Defunct companies In addition to these, many railroads operating steam locomotives built locomotives in their shops. Notable examples include the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Mount Clare Shops, Norfolk & Western's Roanoke Shops, Pennsylvania Railroad's Altoona Works and the Southern Pacific's Sacramento Shops. An estimate of total steam locomotive production in the United States is about 175,000 engines, including nearly 70,000 by Baldwin.

Altoona Machine Shops (PRR) American Locomotive Company (ALCO) Amoskeag Locomotive Works Appomattox Locomotive Works – operated by Uriah Wells Atlas Car & Manufacturing Company Baldwin Locomotive Works – later known as Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Bell Locomotive Works – New York City and Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania Brooks Locomotive Works - to ALCO in 1901 Budd Company Burr & Ettinger Miniature Railway Company – also known as Cagney Bros. Cincinnati Locomotive Works – also known as Harkness and as Moore & Richardson Climax Manufacturing Company Cooke Locomotive & Machine Works - began as Danforth Locomotive & Machine Company, later Danforth, Cooke, & Company, to ALCO in 1901 Covington Locomotive Works Crown Metal Products Custom Fabricators Davenport Locomotive Works Denmead Dickson Manufacturing Company – to ALCO in 1901 Dunkirk Engineering Company Eastwick & Harrison Euclid Road Machinery Company Fairbanks-Morse Globe Locomotive Works Glover Locomotive Works Grant Locomotive Works HK Porter – Smith & Porter, later Porter, Bell & Co. Heisler Locomotive Works Hicks Locomotive and Car Works Hinkley Locomotive Works Hurlbut Amusement Company 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 - to ALCO in 1901 Mason Machine Works McQueen Locomotive Works Milwaukee Locomotive Manufacturing Company Mount Savage Locomotive Works Nashville Manufacturing Company New Castle Manufacturing Company New Jersey Locomotive & Machine Company – began as Swinburne, Smith & Company New York Locomotive Works – also known as Breese, Kneeland & Company Niles & Company Norris Locomotive Works Ottaway Amusement Company, founders of Joyland Amusement Park (Wichita, Kansas) Pittsburgh Locomotive & Car Works - to ALCO in 1901 Plymouth Locomotive Works Portland Company Railpower Technologies Rhode Island Locomotive Works - to ALCO in 1901 Richmond Locomotive Works - to ALCO in 1901 Roanoke East End Shops Rogers Locomotive & Machine Works – began as Rogers, Ketchum & Grosvenor, to ALCO in 1905 Rome Locomotive Works – New York Ross Winans Locomotive Works Schenectady Locomotive Works - later became American Locomotive Company (ALCO) St Louis Car Company Swinburne, Smith & Company Sygnet Rail Technologies T. H. Paul & Sons Talbott & Brother Iron Works Taunton Locomotive Manufacturing Company Tredegar Iron Works Union Iron Works United Aircraft Virginia Locomotive & Car Works – also known as Smith & Perkins Vulcan Iron Works Wasatch Railroad Contractors – builder of brand-new 15 in (381 mm) gauge Cagney replica steam locomotives West Point Foundry Westinghouse Electric Corporation Whitcomb Locomotive Works Ernst Wiener Co., New York Wilmarth

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