SCHENECTADY -- Boosters of a new museum being planned to showcase locomotives built by the American Locomotive Co. hope to capitalize on interest in a bygone era of manufacturing when this brawny blue ...

Schenectady was known as the city that lights and hauls the world. The General Electric Co., of course, was the lighting part. The American Locomotive Company was the hauling part. Next Sunday, ...

Schenectady — Big engines and big wheels always were part of Schenectady. They rolled out of the city’s massive American Locomotive Co. plant every year: locomotives that pulled train cars through ...

Editor’s Note: Robert J. McCarthy Jr., a former Scotia resident and career journalist who now works at The Buffalo News, fondly remembers his family’s association with the American Locomotive Co.