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    The ALCO RS-27 (specification DL-640) was a diesel-electric locomotive built by ALCO between December 1959 and October 1962. Only 27 examples were manufactured...
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    ALCO RS-1 is a 4-axle diesel-electric locomotive built by Alco-GE between 1941 and 1953 and the American Locomotive Company from 1953 to 1960. ALCO subsidiary...
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    The ALCO RS-2 is a 1,500–1,600 horsepower (1,100–1,200 kW) B-B diesel-electric locomotive built by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) from 1946 to...
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  • The American Locomotive Company (often shortened to ALCO, ALCo or Alco) was an American manufacturer that operated from 1901 to 1969, initially specializing...
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  • switch engines and the ALCO RS-1 road switcher. Like the 539, it was produced in Auburn, New York. In August 1951, Alco built the ALCO DL420 test unit with...
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    was often used in much the same manner as its four-axle counterpart, the ALCO RS-1, though the six-motor design allowed better tractive effort at lower...
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    August 1968. Cataloged as a part of ALCO's "Century" line of locomotives, the C420 was intended to replace the earlier RS-32 model. Since 2005, roughly 30%...
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    plus 8 from the DSS&A (100–107) ALCO RSC-2: 4 locomotives (368–371) ALCO RSC-3: 4 locomotives (372–374, 2380) ALCO RS-27: 2 locomotives (415–416) Baldwin...
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  • The American Locomotive Company (ALCO), based in Schenectady, New York, United States produced a wide range of diesel-electric locomotives from its opening...
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    May 1967. Cataloged as a part of Alco's Century line of locomotives, the C424 was intended to replace the earlier RS-27 model and offered as a lower-priced...
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    passenger locomotives built in September 1940. Alco locomotives using this engine include the S-2, S-4, RS-1, RSC-1, RSD-1, DL-105, DL-107, DL-108, DL-109...
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    The ALCO Century 415 is a diesel-electric locomotive of B-B wheel arrangement produced by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) as part of their Century...
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    The ALCO Century 628 was a six-axle, 2,750 hp (2,051 kW) diesel-electric locomotive. A total of 186 C628s were built between December 1963 and December...
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    operated with some of the railroad's ALCO RS-1s in mainline freight service. By the early 1960s, most of the NYS&W's ALCO locomotives began to suffer from...
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  • Delaware and Hudson ALCO RS-3 diesel locomotives. Shaughnessy (1997), pp. 118, 121. Shaughnessy (1997), p. 129. Goodspeed, Susan (June 27, 1996). "Legal Hurdle...
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  • the popular RS-1 road switcher, but by 1950 Alco-GE was struggling to keep up with EMD. In 1953, GE dissolved their partnership with ALCo and took over...
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  • Maine Central diesel locomotives (category ALCO locomotives)
    substituting forest green for the B&M maroon background color. Only two ALCO RS-3s, two ALCO RS-11s, a single EMD SW9 and the last four EMD GP7s were delivered...
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    It has an ALCo 251B / 6 diesel engine with combined power of 772 kW and reaches speeds up to 96 kilometers per hour. They belong to the RS-8 DL-532 type...
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  • for service. Additionally, the MIRC also operated three ALCO S-3s, two ALCO RS-1s, and two ALCO RS-2s. Railways portal Lewis, Edward A. (1991). American...
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    switcher the BL2. The RS-3 was the best known of the Alco RS road switchers and was produced in more numbers than the RS-1 and RS-2 designs combined.[citation...
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    with TCRR markings. Scrapped at Wellsboro in 2014. 506—An ALCO RS-3. First built as an ALCO RS3 for the Delaware & Hudson RR in 1952. Rebuilt in 1975...
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    steam generator. This was fundamentally identical to what ALCO had done to create the successful RS-1 design—fitting a switcher long hood and cab on a stretched...
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    orders—from the railroads that tested them. Meanwhile, ALCO had been producing the 2,400 hp (1,800 kW) RS-27 since 1959, though it had not sold well. EMD's engineering...
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  • and listed by original road number, unless specified. ALCO C424 #5204 ALCO C630 #5308 ALCO RS-3 #485 Baldwin DS-4-4-1000 #702 Budd RDC-1 #9152- Last...
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  • Road class EP-1 - 12 2-unit boxcab sets (24 locomotives) built in 1915 by ALCO/GE. Converted to freight class EF-1 in 1920. In 1950, two boxcab two-unit...
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    to the weight-bearing frame of a true road switcher locomotive like the Alco RS-1) with the body cut away behind the cab to provide visibility to the rear...
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  • designs, as offered by the competition in the form of the EMD GP7 or the Alco RS-3 and even the Baldwin DRS-4-4-1500. Robert Aldag Jr., who would eventually...
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  • presented to Glenn Miller for Chattanooga Choo Choo. March – Alco-GE build the first ALCO RS-1 road switcher. This model will have the longest production...
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  • Comments ALCO RS-3 B-B 92–99 1955–1956 8 Renumbered 307–300 in 1956 ALCO RS-11 B-B 308–406 1956–1961 99 ALCO RS-36 B-B 407–412 1962 6 ALCO T-6 B-B 10–49...
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    Archive – FAQ". Archived from the original on 2009-03-10. Retrieved 2008-12-27. "Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway Archive – Diesel Locomotive Roster: 200"...
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