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I was just wondering if this is an Alco locomotive or an Alco power plant? If it is a locomotive could you post a photo. Thankskwk100,A Diesel drinking, piston clankin', air pollutin', smoke belchin' ten wheel buggy, from Seattle WA...
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Perhaps a C424 is what you had in mind?
Here's the first one ever built:
John Roth
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KWK, My screen name has nothing to do with railroads. The Century part is the manufacturer of my favorite towing apparatus and the 242 came from what used to be my favorite band, Front242. If I had to choose an Alco locomotive, it would be the
Century-643, only 3 were built and all went to the Espee at a cost of $475,290 each. They were 7' longer than the C-628.
They had 2 12-cylinder 251 engines of 2,150 tractive power apiece.
Delivered weight was 400,900 or 66,816 pounds per axle.
The only part that was not manufactured in the US was the transmission, these were built by Voith of Germany.
The engines were numbered 9018-9020 and delivered to the SP on September 25 1964.
The engines operated out of Roseville, but normally were confined to the Roseville-Bayshore-Bakersfield orbit.
SP originally classified them as DF-802s, but a year after delivery they reclassified them as AF640-1 and renumbered them to 9150-9152.
In June of 1969 they were renumbered once again to make way for the large number of EMD SD45s, #9800-9802.
SP formally retired them on April 6th 1973 and sold them to locomotive dealer Chrome Crankshaft. They sat on Espee's Sacramento property while the dealer robbed useful parts off of them and then in September 1973 they were moved to Associated Metals yard in Sacramento where they were instantly cut up.
The only parts that were saved went to the California State RR Museum and these were 1 Voith Transmission and one truck."Keep on Trucking by Train"Erik Pierson
Sacramento, Ca
www.sacramentolocomotiveworks.comBringing 1940s Southern Pacific to the digital age.
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Oh okay - the story of the C643 is pretty interresting!kwk100,A Diesel drinking, piston clankin', air pollutin', smoke belchin' ten wheel buggy, from Seattle WA...
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I will look into building one if I can scrounge up some plans."Keep on Trucking by Train"Erik Pierson
Sacramento, Ca
www.sacramentolocomotiveworks.comBringing 1940s Southern Pacific to the digital age.
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