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Business collapsed suddenly after the death of President Noch in 1890 and the financial panic of the early 1890s dried up new orders. The company shut down in June 1891 and was reorganized as the Rome Locomotive and Machine Company. The new company announced its focus would be rebuilding steam
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Rome built 695 steam locomotives in a decade, a significant number in a highly competitive field, the seventeenth largest total among 19th century North American locomotive builders. Three NYLW locomotives survive. Northern Pacific 4-4-0 684 was built in 1884 and is preserved at Fargo, ND.
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which traded under the same name in the 1850s. The company was organized in 1881 with T. G Noch, a prominent local businessman as president. J. A. Durgan, a well known designer of steam locomotives was appointed superintendent, a position he had previously held at the
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were constructed by the new company but only two new steam locomotives were built after the reorganization, the last in 1911. RL&MC merged into the Rome Manufacturing Company in 1916. Rome Manufacturing built
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and continued rebuilding steam locomotives into the 1920s.
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The New York Locomotive Works, sometimes known as the
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Defunct locomotive manufacturers of the United States
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and a line of heavy construction equipment including
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