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.
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