why did it close down?
Stiff competition and an inability to increase its own capacity.
Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works
Faced with stiff competition and an inability to increase its own capacity, Rogers Locomotive Works was purchased by ALCO
who started rogers locomotive and machine works? Thomas Rogers, Morris Ketchum and Jasper Grosvenor. when? 1832 where was this company started? 1856 does the company still exist? No do you know when it closed down? 1920s
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Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works [SEP] 1905 to present: absorbed into ALCO
Faced with stiff competition and an inability to increase its own capacity, Rogers Locomotive Works was purchased by ALCO in 1905. Rogers' last independently built locomotive was serial number 6271, a 0-6-0 tank locomotive built for W. R. Grace & Company in February 1905. ALCO continued building locomotives at the Rogers plant until 1913 when manufacturing at the plant ceased permanently. Locomotives built at the Rogers plant under ALCO are generally referred to as locomotives built by ALCO-Rogers. ALCO used the Rogers plant buildings as warehouses well into the 1920s, but eventually sold off all of the property. The original Rogers erecting shop was converted into office space and was still in use in that manner as late as 1992.