Company. The last Brooks locomotive, serial number 3883, built for the Lake Shore Railroad, was completed on June 22, 1901. Horatio Brooks died in April 1887; he was succeeded as president of the company by his son-in-law, Edward Nichols. Nichols died on January 7, 1892, and was succeeded by then vice president Marshall L. Hinman. Hinman resigned from the presidency in December 1896 to be succeeded by another of H.G. Brooks's sons-in-law, Frederick H. Stevens. Stevens led the company until the merger with Alco in 1901. Following the merger, the Brooks plant built one of the first orders booked by ALCO, consisting of fifteen 2-8-0 locomotives for Mexican Central Railroad. ALCO produced locomotives at this facility until 1934 when the shop was renamed ALCO Thermal Products Division. Locomotives produced at the former Brooks plant after ALCO's formation came to be known as ALCO-Brooks locomotives. Although new locomotives were no longer being produced at the former Brooks shops in Dunkirk, shop forces were kept busy for some time building spare parts for ALCO locomotives. Production had shifted from locomotives to heat exchangers, high-pressure vessels and pipes of all sizes. After World War II, production at the Dunkirk plant never got back to its prewar levels. ALCO finally closed the facility in 1962. Timeline November 11, 1869: Horatio Brooks leases the shops facility in Dunkirk and officially opens the Brooks Locomotive Works 1883: Brooks locomotives are named the Best in Show locomotives at the National Railway Appliance Exhibition in Chicago. February 22, 1884: Brooks completes its 1,000th new locomotive. November 30, 1891: Brooks completes its 2,000th new locomotive. July 23, 1898: Brooks completes its 3,000th new locomotive. 1901: Brooks and several other locomotive manufacturers are merged into the American Locomotive Company 1934: New locomotive construction at the Brooks plant ends as the plant is renamed ALCO Thermal Products Division. 1962: ALCO closes the former Brooks plant in Dunkirk, laying off the remaining 750 laborers at the facility. Preserved Brooks locomotives Brooks Locomotive Works sold locomotives to all of the major railroads of the late 19th century. Following is a partial list (in serial number order) of Brooks-built locomotives that have been spared the scrapper's torch. References Defunct locomotive manufacturers of the United States History of Buffalo, New York Manufacturing companies established in 1869 Manufacturing companies disestablished in 1901 1869 establishments in New York (state) 1901 disestablishments in New York (state) 1901 mergers