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Alco Historic Photos ALCO Historic Photos is a collection of approximately 30,000 negatives an 10,000 drawings relating to the American Locomotive Company.

ALCO Historic Photos (AHP) is a collection of almost 30,000 photographic negatives and nearly 10,000 drawings and documents relating to the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) and its sucessor, Alco Products. Included in those numbers are images and paper from the companies that merged to form the American Locomotive Company in 1901. The collection is housed in Schenectady, NY's City Hall. The majority of the photographic negatives are "builders photographs" of locomotives built by ALCO and its predecessor companies. Also available are negatives of erecting drawings (elevation and sections), rotary snowplows, and ALCO automobiles, trucks and race cars. Micellaneous negatives include construction and demolition of various plant buildings, activities of workers during the er****on of locomotives, and employee activites such as War Bond drives, blood donation drives, and apprentice class pictures. Also included are ALCO's wartime building of tanks and gun carriages. The collection represents over 100 years of locomotive building from 1865 to 1969. It is also a history of photography from large format glass plates through nitrate and safety film.

05/14/2026

miSci President and historian Chris Hunter has died at 54. A lifelong Schenectady resident, Hunter was the world's leading authority on GE and tech history.

04/03/2026
08/19/2023
06/02/2023

*** Limited tickets available ***

Head out on an ALCO Adventure this Saturday, June 3rd on the Saratoga, Corinth & Hudson Railway!!!!

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$40: AHTS Members
$45: Non-members
$20: Kids (4-12 yrs)

⬇️: FOR TICKETS

📞: Call Debi at 518-461-5180

ALCO Historical & Technical Society
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Discover Saratoga NY
Saratoga County Chamber of Commerce
Capital Region Chamber
Lake George Regional Chamber of Commerce

10/15/2022

We are locked in for tomorrow's "Rails Along the Mohawk" train show with 60 vendor tables and four operating layouts. Hope to you all there.

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