Ateliers de la Meuse

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legal form	Corporation
founding	1850/1872
Seat	Sclessin and Seraing , Belgium
Number of employees	84 (including 19 salaried employees and 65 workers)
sales	€ 10,488,000
Branch	Boiler construction
Website	www.alm.be
	Status: 2017

The Ateliers de la Meuse (short: La Meuse , formerly Societe Anonyme des Ateliers de Construction de la Meuse , French for workshops on the Meuse ) are a metalworking company specializing in mechanical welding technology in Sclessin and Seraing in Belgium .

history

Advertising poster for the SA of the Ateliers de Construction de la Meuse , 1905

SA share of Ateliers de Construction de la Meuse , March 27, 1920

The history of the workshops goes back to the 16th century. They were moved to Liège in 1835, founded in 1850 and called Ateliers de construction de La Meuse from 1872 under the direction of Charles Marcellis .

The company built a total of 5350 steam locomotives from 1888 to 1949, most of which were used on factory trains. It also supplied the Belgian state railways , including steam locomotives of types 8, 9, 10, 23 and 36.

Today it focuses on boiler construction, mechanics and the assembly of large assemblies, whose main markets are nuclear technology, medical technology, heavy engineering and space travel.

List of preserved steam locomotives

Factory no.	Construction year	design type	Gauge	Remarks
1631	1900	B n2t	600 mm	No. 11 of the Estrada de Ferro Central do Brasil , preserved in the Museu do Trem do Engenho de Dentro in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil
1812	1908	B n2t	1000 mm	Société de Construction du Port de Bahia SA , later works locomotive No. 5 of the Companhia Paraíba de Cimento Portland . Obtained from LP Assessoria Industrial in Votorantim , Brazil
1828	1903	C n2t	1435 mm	From 1903 to 1957 Mines d ' Auchel ( Department Pas-de-Calais ), later CENPA (Papeterie de Bègles ). Preserved at the Ecomusée de la Grande Lande in Marquèze .
1971	1905	C n2t	1000 mm	Initially at the Estrada de Ferro do Paraná , later at the Estrada de Ferro São Paulo - Rio Grande , from 1935 as No. 101 at the Rede de Viação Paraná - Santa Catarina . Exhibited without tender on the Praça Tomi Nakagawa in Londrina , Paraná , Brazil
1972	1905	C n2t	1000 mm	Initially at the Estrada de Ferro do Paraná , later at the Estrada de Ferro São Paulo - Rio Grande , from 1935 as No. 102 at the Rede de Viação Paraná - Santa Catarina . One of the few steam locomotives that was retained in 1958 when Rede Ferroviária Federal (RFFSA) ended steam operations in Brazil. Museum railway operation by the Associação Brasileira de Preservação Ferroviária (ABPF) in Piratuba , Brazil .
2215	1909	C n2t	1000 mm	Presumably until 1912 as No. 21 of the Port Authority of Rio Grande , Brazil . Today in the port museum.
2216	1909	C n2t	1000 mm	Ranked # 21 in the Port Authority of Rio Grande , Brazil . Later Estrada de Ferro Carlos Barbosa - Alfredo Chaves , then as No. 6 on Viação Férrea do Rio Grande do Sul . Today exhibited at Largo Evandro Behr in Santa Maria , Brazil
2216	1909	C n2t	1000 mm	Initially presumably as No. 22 with the Port Authority of Rio Grande , Brazil .
2217	1909	C n2t	1000 mm	Initially presumably as No. 23 in the port administration of Rio Grande , Brazil . Later at Estrada de Ferro Carlos Barbosa - Alfredo Chaves , and as No. 32 at Viação Férrea do Rio Grande do Sul . Issued at Canela Railway Station in Rio Grande do Sul , Brazil .
2218	1909	C n2t	1000 mm	Initially presumably as No. 24 in the port administration of Rio Grande , Brazil . Later at the Estrada de Ferro Carlos Barbosa - Alfredo Chaves , then as No. 8 at Viação Férrea do Rio Grande do Sul . Get in the depot of Rio Grande , Rio Grande do Sul , Brazil .
2224	1911	C n2t	950 mm	Received as FCE 14 from Ferrovia Circumetnea in Catania , Italy.
2330	1911	C n2t	1000 mm	Initially as No. 15 with the Port Authority of Rio Grande , Brazil . Get in the depot of Rio Grande , Rio Grande do Sul , Brazil .
2395	1911	C n2t	1000 mm	Initially with the port administration of Rio Grande , Brazil . In the Centro Administrativo Leopoldo Petry in Novo Hamburgo , Rio Grande do Sul , Brazil issued.
2402	1912	C n2t	1000 mm	Initially as No. 19 with the Port Authority of Rio Grande , Brazil . Get in the depot of Rio Grande , Rio Grande do Sul , Brazil .
2403	1912	C n2t	1000 mm	Initially as No. 21 with the Port Authority of Rio Grande , Brazil . Preserved in Capão do Leão , Rio Grande do Sul , Brazil .
2658	1912	C n2t	1435 mm	Built for the Compagnie des chemins de fer secondaires du Nord-Est Received at the Train Thur Doller Alsace .
2804	1916	C n2t	1435 mm	Originally Hainaut . As MF 83 at the Chemin de fer à vapeur des 3 vallées .
2828	1922	B n2t	600 mm	Presumably without a number at a factory in São José dos Pinhais , Paraná , Brazil . From there it came to the Riesemberg family farm in União da Vitória , Paraná , Brazil , where it is still located today.
3107	1924	C n2t	1435 mm	Initially in a factory in Bouchain , France . Obtained from the Train touristique de Guîtres à Marcenais .
3176		C n2t	1000/1435 mm	Until 1932 as a meter gauge locomotive with the Chemin de Fer d'Artois . In 1944 the United States Army Transportation Corps (USATC) relocated it as a standard gauge shunter . Then in operation in the port of Antwerp . Later at the Sas van Gent sugar factory. 1971–1977 at the Museumstoomtram Hoorn – Medemblik . Since then in the Museum Buurtspoorweg .
3223	1926	C n2t	1435 mm	Built for the Belgian coal mine Charbonnages de Werister . Received ready for service at the Stoomtrein Maldegem-Eeklo .
3242	1929	B n2t	762 mm	Originally at SA Hoboken in Antwerp , Belgium . Later on as No. 6 Winston on the Statfold Barn Railway . With the St. Nicholas Abbey Heritage Railway on the island of Barbados since 2020 . Operational.
3252	1929	C n2t	1435 mm	Built for the nitrogen factory in Sluiskil . 1972 Taken over from the Museum Buurtspoorweg as SHM 5 Enkhuizen .
3362	1929	B n2t	1000 mm	Originally ARBED- Stahlwerke Esch Belval . Exhibited at Niederpallen station on the former Nördingen – Martelingen narrow-gauge railway
3252	1929	C n2t	1435 mm	Formerly Dutch Nitrogen ( Netherlands ). Preserved in the Buurtspoorweg Museum .
3907	1924	B n2t	1435 mm	Train touristique de Guîtres à Marcenais .
3292	1928	C n2t	1435 mm	No. 16 of the Oranje Nassaumijnen in Heerlen , the Netherlands . Received as SGB 3 Bison from Stoomtrein Goes-Borsele .
3931	1938	C n2t	600 mm	Formerly Sucrerie de Maizy (Aisne) . Preserved in the Musée des transports de Pithiviers .
3932	1938	1'C n2t	600 mm	Formerly Sucrerie de Maizy (Aisne) . Obtained from the Chemin de fer de la vallée de l'Ouche .
4057	1953	D n2t	1435 mm	Initially at the André Dumont coal mine in Waterschei . Today as AD 08 at the Chemin de fer à vapeur des 3 vallées
4147	1942	C n2t	1100 mm	Originally the Bobrek coal mine in Bytom . Today in the Warsaw Railway Museum .
4480	1951	D n2t	1435 mm	Initially at the André Dumont coal mine in Waterschei . Today as AD 09 at the Chemin de fer à vapeur des 3 vallées
4672	1951