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Please excuse the naivete, but did not Australian State owned railway workshops effectively build their own engines at times? Are we caught up with the issue of where 'company' is a limiting term - because I am sure that in Western Australia the WAGR (Western Australian Government Railways) built engines. Where/how do we list "in-house" construction? I am very interested in how we get around this one.User:SatuSuro 14:59, 8 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see why the Australian State Railways shouldn't be included as a locomotive (or other) builder. After all, Wikipedia is full of locos built by British Railways Chevin 17:59, 8 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Seems fine to me, but I'm wondering why Siemens aren't included in the list of Locotive manufacturers.
Probably because nobody's added them to the list yet. slambo 15:51, 14 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- I have added Ipswich workshops, Queensland Railways. Biscuittin (talk) 08:02, 28 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Number ever built.[edit]

Trains magazine had a article estimating the number of locomotives ever built worldwide. It was about, IIRC, 500,000.

Tabletop (talk) 06:29, 29 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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In this article, should manufacturers only be listed once in the country where their headquarters are located, or should there be a separate entry for each country that the manufacturer builds locomotives in? What is the criteria for listing subsidiaries? What is the proper way to indicate that a manufacturer is now a subsidiary of another manufacturer? Do manufacturers of track machines and DMUs/EMUs qualify for this list? Sorry for my ignorance and the list of questions, and thank you for any replies. HONDAGUY (talk) 02:17, 18 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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I do apologize for this, but I feel as though the 5AT Project doesn’t deserve to be on this list. My reasoning is that throughout the project existence, to my knowledge, it never produced a single locomotive. Therefore, by my train of thought (forgive the pun), they don’t classify as a locomotive builder. I wish to put this up for debate and see how people feel on this topic before I or anyone else changed it. If you have an opinion on this, please either write below or on my talk page. Thank you for your time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Locomotive 150 (talk • contribs) 03:52, 16 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]