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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 in 1901 until it ceased manufacture in 1969. This is a list of ALCO locomotive classes. For individually notable locomotives, please see List of locomotives. There are numerous individual ...
The American Locomotive Company (often shortened to ALCO, ALCo or Alco) was an American manufacturer that operated from 1901 to 1969, initially specializing in the production of locomotives but later diversifying and fabricating at various times diesel generators, automobiles, steel, tanks, munitions, oil-production equipment, as well as heat exchangers for nuclear power plants.
ALCO MRS-1 #244 (Yreka Western Railroad). The locomotive was scrapped in 2011. Thirteen of the locomotives were sold to the Alaska Railroad—six in 1974, and seven in 1975. Alaska retired its last ALCO MRS-1s in 1984. [3] Two locomotives were sold to the Uruguayan Administración de Ferrocarriles del Estado, numbered 1611, 1612. One suffered a ...
New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad No. 206 is a preserved S-2 class diesel switcher locomotive on display in at the Maywood Station Museum in Maywood, New Jersey.No. 206 was built by ALCO in 1942 for the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad (NYS&W), as part of their process to dieselize their locomotive roster.
ALCO S-1 and S-3; ALCO S-2 and S-4; ALCO S-5; ALCO S-6; Savannah and Atlanta 750; ALCO SB-8/SSB-9; SEK class Ια; SEK Class Θγ; Sentetsu Amei-class locomotives; Sentetsu Mikani-class locomotive; Sentetsu Pashini-class locomotive; Sentetsu Tehoko-class locomotive; Sentetsu Tehosa-class locomotive; SNCB Type 29; SNCF Class 141R; Soo Line 353 ...
The ALCO boxcabs were diesel-electric switcher locomotives, otherwise known as AGEIR boxcabs as a contraction of the names of the builders. Produced by a partnership of three companies, ALCO (American Locomotive Company) built the chassis and running gear, General Electric the generator, motors and controls, and Ingersoll Rand the diesel engine.
The ALCO PA was a family of A1A-A1A diesel locomotives built to haul passenger trains. The locomotives were built in Schenectady, New York , in the United States , by a partnership of the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) and General Electric (GE) between June, 1946 and December, 1953.
The three L-1 0-8-8-0 Mallet steam locomotives of the Erie Railroad, built in July 1907 by ALCO, and numbered 2600, 2601 and 2602 (ALCo construction numbers 42269, 42270 and 42271 respectively); were unique in that they were the only articulated camelback locomotives ever built.