ALCO Century 420
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The ALCO Century 420 is a four-axle, 2,000 horsepower (1,491 kW) diesel-electric locomotive. 131 were built between June 1963 and August 1968. Cataloged as a part of ALCO's "Century" line of locomotives, the C420 was intended to replace the earlier RS-32 model.
Original owners
[edit]Since 2005, roughly 30% of C420 production exists. All units ordered by Mississippi Export, New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad ("Nickel Plate"), and Piedmont & Northern Railway have been scrapped.
The two units delivered to the Piedmont & Northern were the first of the Phase II units.
Surviving examples
[edit]Several C420s survive today.
- Ferrocarrill del Sureste #5700 is preserved as NdeM #5700 at the Museo de los Ferrocarriles de Yucatán in Mérida, Yucatán
- Lehigh Valley Railroad #405 and #414 are operational on the Delaware Lackawanna Railroad in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
- Lehigh Valley Railroad #408 is preserved as VLIX #2064 at the Southern Appalachia Railway Museum in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
- Long Island Rail Road #200 is operational in active freight service on the Livonia, Avon and Lakeville Railroad in New York.
- Long Island Rail Road #213 is owned by the Arkansas & Missouri as A&M #69. It was previously active until 2021 on the Dakota Southern Railway in Mitchell, South Dakota as DS #213.
- Long Island Rail Road #220 is preserved as NdeM #220 at the Museo de los Ferrocarriles de Yucatán in Mérida, Yucatán.
- Louisville & Nashville Railroad #1310 and #1315 are preserved at the Southern Appalachia Railway Museum in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
- Seaboard Air Line Railroad #124 is operational as CVSR #365 on the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad in Independence, Ohio.
- Tennessee Central Railway #400 is operational on the Apache Railway as their #82.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- Preserved Alco and MLW-Built Centuries. Retrieved on August 25, 2009
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to ALCO C420 locomotives.
- Sarberenyi, Robert. Alco C420 Original Owners.
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