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Today the second largest manufacturing company in Atlantis, General ordnance aquired Montreal locomotive Works from Alco (American Locomotive company). Alco had just preveously closed down several of its smaller plants in order to downsize in an effort to cut costs.
Todays sale surely benefits both companys as Alco get significant payment from General Ordnace which in turn gets into the currently lucrative rail buisness in Atlantis by buying Montreal Locomotive Works. "Currently the railroad buisness in Atlantis is surging and General ordnance wishes to jump into the race" said General Ordnace's C.O. Grant Mason. "With the purchase of MLW, G.O. plans to expand by converting one of its Industrial machinery plants in Eridanus into a locomotive shop and build a Locomotive production plant in Thetis. In conjunction with the plant in Canada G.O. can look forward to building rail machinery for export to north america as well as domestic needs."
Preveously MLW had very good buisness in Atlantis with 12 X-10-a 4-6-4 steam locomotives being purchased by ANR (Atlantian National railroad) and another 5 by PNR (Phelleus northern railway) in 1915.
In 1918 four J-7-b 4-6-2 engines were purchased by the C&E railroad (Cleito and Eridanus). Currently many of those Engines purchased have experienced nothing more than rutine mechanical problems and have proved to be mechanically reliable.
With this latest purchase G.O. will now manufacture Industrial machinery, aircraft and automotive engines and now rail machinery in an effort to compete with Atlantis's biggest manufacturing company Aero-Pullinger.

Historically:

ALCO was not a new competitor in the locomotive industry in 1901. It was formed by the merger of eight existing locomotive companies:


Schenectady Locomotive Works (Schenectady, NY)
Pittsburg Locomotive Works (Pittsburgh, PA)
Rhode Island Locomotive Works (Providence, RI)
Brooks Locomotive Works (Dunkirk, NY)
Richmond Locomotive Works (Richmond, VA)
Cooke Locomotive Works (Patterson, NJ)
Manchester Locomotive Works (Manchester, NH)
Dickson Locomotive Works (Scranton, PA)


Montreal Locomotive Works was added in 1904 and Rogers Locomotive Works (Patterson, NJ) in 1905. The smaller plants were gradually closed. When the Brooks Works closed in 1928 only Schenectady was left. Many notable locomotives including the New York Central's streamlined Hudsons and Union Pacific's Big Boys were built before steam production halted in 1948. Although ALCO built the first commercial diesel-electric locomotive in 1924, lagging sales due to competition from General Motors and General Electric caused ALCO to close in 1969.

Uh oh...Atlantis is going to corner the market for armored trains...

Not quite...but you just gave me an idea! Heh heh j/k.
Acctually Atlantis is trying to nationalize more of the Industry based in the homeland, don't worry its not an ethnic cleansing!! I just thought it would be neat to own something from my home country in the sim.

Well, that would depend on what you think of 'That French Lot' there in the east. :-)


Walter