Editing Cooke Locomotive and Machine Works

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{{Infobox company
| name = Cooke Locomotive and Machine Works
| logo = 
| image = Cooke Locomotive & Machine Company.jpg
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| image_alt = 
| image_caption = Aerial view of the Cooke Locomotive and Machine Company in Paterson, New Jersey.
| type = 
| industry = Rail transport
| fate = Merged 
| predecessor = 
| successor = [[American Locomotive Company]]
| founded = 1852 (as Danforth, Cooke, and Company)
| founders = John Cooke<br/>Charles Danforth<br/>John Edwards<br/>Edwin T. Prall
| defunct = 1901
| hq_location_city = [[Paterson, New Jersey]]
| hq_location_country = United States
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| key_people = 
| products = [[Steam locomotive]]s and rolling stock, cotton machinery<ref name=Trumball/>
| owner = <!-- or: | owners = -->
| num_employees = 
| num_employees_year = <!-- Year of num_employees data (if known) -->
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}}
[[File:1877 ad Paterson NJ Poors Manual of Railroads.png|thumb|right|1877 advertisement of Danforth Locomotive and Machine Company]]
The '''Cooke Locomotive and Machine Works''', located in [[Paterson, New Jersey]], manufactured steam [[railroad]] [[locomotive]]s from 1852 until it was merged with seven other manufacturers to form [[American Locomotive Company]] (ALCO) in 1901.

==History==
The firm was established in 1852 by former [[Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works]] superintendent (and son-in-law of [[William Swinburne (locomotive builder)|William Swinburne]] of [[Swinburne, Smith and Company]]) John Cooke and former [[Montreal]] resident Charles Danforth as the '''Danforth, Cooke, and Company''', as a manufacturer of steam locomotives as well as cotton machinery.<ref name=Trumball>Trumbull, L R. A History of Industrial Paterson : Being a Compendium of the Establishment, Growth and Present Status in Paterson, N.J., of the Silk, Cotton, Flax, Locomotive, Iron and Miscellaneous Industries : Together with Outlines of State, County and Local History, Corporate Records, Biographical Sketches, Incidents of Manufacture, Interesting Facts and Valuable Statistics. Salem, Mass., Higginson Book Co, 2016.</ref>  The company was renamed '''Danforth Locomotive and Machine Company''' in 1865, with Danforth serving as president until 1871, four years before his death in 1875.  Cooke succeeded Danforth as president in 1871, continuing in such capacity until his own death in 1882, after which Cooke's sons,  John, Frederick, and Charles reorganized the firm as the '''Cooke Locomotive and Machine Works''', and continued operating the company as such until the merger in 1901.[[File:Alco-Cooke builder's plate.jpg|thumb|ALCO-Cooke [[builder's plate]], 1910]]
In 1901, Cooke and several other locomotive manufacturers merged to form the [[American Locomotive Company]]; Cooke's plant becomes the Alco-Cooke Works, and locomotive production continued at the plant until 1926.  Approximately 2600 locomotives were built by Cooke from 1852 to 1901,<ref>Lucas, W. A. “Locomotive Builders of Paterson.” The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin, no. 11, 1926, pp. 22–30. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/43516818. Accessed 9 Dec. 2020.</ref> among the most notable engines produced by the firm are the [[C. P. Huntington]], and the [[The Texas (locomotive)|Western & Atlantic Railroad "Texas"]].

==Exports==
In addition to providing motive power for North American railroads, Cooke has also produced many locomotives for Central and South America as well as other parts of the world.  Examples of exported locomotives include two [[Port Talbot Railway 0-8-2T (Cooke)|0-8-2 tank locomotives]] for the [[Port Talbot Railway and Docks Company]], [[South Wales]], in 1899, as well as [[Barry Railway]]'s five [[Barry Railway Class K|class K]] [[0-6-2T]] locomotives the same year.  The firm also produced [[2-6-2T]] locomotives for the [[War Department Light Railways]] to be used in [[France]] during [[World War I]], preserved examples of which can be found on the [[Froissy Dompierre Light Railway]] and [[Ffestiniog Railway]].

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==Preserved Cooke locomotives==
The following is a list of preserved locomotives built by Cooke before the ALCO merger in 1901. They are listed here in serial number order.<ref>{{cite web| author=Sunshine Software| url=http://www.steamlocomotive.info/| title=Steam Locomotive Information| accessdate=October 30, 2005}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
! Serial number
! Wheel arrangement<br><small>([[Whyte notation]])</small>
! Build date
! Name
! Disposition
|-
| unknown
| [[4-4-0]]
| October 1856
| [[Western and Atlantic Railroad]] 49 ''[[The Texas (locomotive)|Texas]]''
| [[Atlanta History Center]], [[Atlanta, Georgia]]
|-
| 277
|[[4-2-4 (locomotive)|4-2-4T]]
|October 1863
|[[Central Pacific Railroad]] #3 ''[[C. P. Huntington]]'', [[Southern Pacific Railroad]] 1
|[[California State Railroad Museum]], [[Sacramento, California]]<ref>{{cite book|author1=Diebert, Timothy S.  |author2=Strapac, Joseph A.| title=Southern Pacific Company Steam Locomotive Conpendium| publisher=Shade Tree Books| year=1987| isbn=0-930742-12-5}}</ref>
|-
| 1555
| [[2-6-0]]
| February 1884
| [[Colorado and Southern Railway]] 9
| [[Georgetown Loop|Highline Park]], [[Breckinridge, Colorado]]
|-
| 1861
| 4-4-0
| February 1888
| [[Dardanelle and Russelville]] 8
| [[Nevada State Railroad Museum]], [[Carson City, Nevada]]
|-
| 2053
| [[4-6-0]]
| October, 1890
| [[Union Pacific Railroad]] 1242
| Lion's Park, [[Cheyenne, Wyoming]]
|-
| 2054
| 4-6-0
| October, 1890
| [[Union Pacific 1243|Union Pacific Railroad 1243]]
| Durham Western Heritage Museum, [[Omaha, Nebraska]]
|-
| 2197
| 4-6-0
| April 1892
| [[Texas and New Orleans Railroad]] 314
| Center for Transportation and Commerce, [[Galveston, Texas]]
|-
| 2202
| 4-6-0
| April 1892
| Texas and New Orleans Railroad 319
| [[Riverdale, Georgia]]
|-
| 2341
| 4-6-0
| July 1896
| [[Southern Pacific Railroad]] 2248
| [[Grapevine Vintage Railroad]], [[Grapevine, Texas]]
|-
| 2360
| 4-6-0
| March 1897
| Southern Pacific Railroad 2252
| Overlooking the Union Pacific [[classification yard]], [[Roseville, California]]<ref>{{cite web| work=Rocklin and Roseville Today| date=August 5, 2005| url=http://www.rocklintoday.com/news/templates/community_news.asp?articleid=2328&zoneid=4| title=Mighty 2252 Relocation Complete| accessdate=August 5, 2005}}</ref>
|-
| 2408
| 4-6-0
| October 1898
| [[Missouri Pacific Railroad]] 2522
| Paris City Park, [[Paris, Arkansas]]
|}

In addition to the above locomotives, the White Pass and Yukon Route railroad [[WP&YR]] owns and maintains a steam-powered snowplow built by Cooke in 1899. This unit is on static display in Skagway, Alaska (see [[Rotary snowplow]] for a photo).

The following is a list of preserved locomotives built at the Cooke factory after the ALCO merger.
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Serial number
!Wheel arrangement<br><small>(Whyte notation)</small>
!Build date
!Name
!Disposition
|-
|28686
|[[2-8-0]]
|September 1903
|[[Illinois Central 790]]
|[[Steamtown National Historic Site]], [[Scranton, Pennsylvania]]
|-
|55847
|2-6-0 
|May 1916
|Waynesburg & Washington 4
|Greene County Historical Museum, Waynesburg, Pennsylvania
|-
|57156
|2-6-2T
|1916
|[[War Department Light Railways]] No. LR 10003
|[[Ffestiniog Railway]], [[Porthmadog, Wales]]
|-
|57978
|[[2-10-2]]
|January 1918
|[[Southern Pacific 975]]
|[[Illinois Railway Museum]], [[Union, Illinois]]
|-
|62624
|2-8-0
|November 1920
|[[Arcade and Attica 18]]
|[[Arcade and Attica Railroad]], [[Attica (village), New York|Attica]], [[New York (state)|New York]]
|}

[[File:Galveston Railroad Museum March 2022 27 (Southern Pacific Railroad 1892 Cooke 4-6-0 No. 314).jpg|thumb|Southern Pacific 1892 Cooke 4-6-0 No. 314 at the [[Galveston Railroad Museum]]]]

== References ==
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== External links ==
{{Commons category|Danforth Locomotive & Machine Works}}
*{{HAER |survey=NJ-8 |id=nj0184 |title=Danforth Locomotive & Machine Company}}
*{{HAER |survey=NJ-8-A |id=nj0182 |title=Danforth Locomotive & Machine Company, Erecting Shop |link=no}}
*{{HAER |survey=NJ-8-B |id=nj0183 |title=Danforth Locomotive & Machine Company, Blacksmith Shop |link=no}}
* [http://www.steamlocomotive.com/builders/ Steam Locomotive Builders]
* [http://www.steamlocomotive.info/locobrowse.cfm?bn=Cooke%20Locomotive%20&%20Machine%20Co. Steam locomotive preservation information]

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[[Category:Historic American Engineering Record in New Jersey]]
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