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A first generation diesel, designed and built in the 1940's, the Alco PA was a powerful, and some say beautiful, monster of a locomotive. It's a locomotive th's long gone.but, on it's way back !
ALCO Heritage Museum Director Jim Cesare, foreground, stands in the driver's seat of a 1952 Patton Tank, on display in the new musem on Tuesday May 22, 2012 in Schenectady, NY.
The Abilene & Smoky Valley Railroad has reactivated one of its vintage diesel locomotives for the first time in over 20 years. No. 34, a GE 44-ton center-cab switcher, was unveiled on Sunday (June 8, ...
Lionel has reissued the U28C diesel locomotive for the first time since 2012. The model was announced in the 2024 Volume 1 catalog. This six-axle unit was not that common on prototype railroads ...
The Lackawanna 409 switcher, which Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad purchased new from the American Locomotive Co. in 1940, is one of the nation’s oldest Alco diesel locomotives.
SCRANTON, Pa. — An iconic diesel locomotive made its return to Scranton Friday. The American Locomotive Company (ALCO) PA Passenger locomotive known as the Nickel Plate (NKP) 190 has spent the ...
Five diesel locos from the city to roar on Sri Lankan tracks as India sends 22 power-packed engines across the sea; these WDM3A Alco-class locomotives have been workhorses, powering top-tier ...
Five diesel locos from the city to roar on Sri Lankan tracks as India sends 22 power-packed engines across the sea; these WDM3A Alco-class locomotives have been workhorses, powering top-tier ...
“The Sri Lankan government requested a supply of 22 diesel locos. They will be sent in excellent working condition. The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), through the Railway Board’s infrastructure ...