dashloc (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Your welcome Tamaslammer.

Tamaslammer (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I'm a casual train buff and more of an airplane guy... but it seems to me that a lot of RR buffs really love these Alco's.... Way cool.. thanks for posting...

AndreiTupolev (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

There's still a few thousand, probably, of them around in the former USSR, as the TEM-2 is virtually a copy of a wartime Alco design.

DRcaprice (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

lol, walk in room for the engine.

finfred (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

F-M used opposed-piston diesels in their locomotives, a rather different animal from what Alco used. Engines were Alco's weak point, they simply weren't as good as what EMD and GE used. Some railroads even went as far as repowering their Alco locomotives with EMD 567 units replacing the original Alco engine.

sirengeek (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

that thing is long and loud!!!!!!! im used to -9s and u30s

douro20 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

You could still get parts from F-M for these engines; they still make them!

CountVonBoco (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Because the availiblity of parts ceased from ALCo Shutting down, and railroads favoring the EMD and GE designs better, even though a C630 could outpull a EMD SD40-2 or GE C30-7 anyday(atleast in my belief)

DetroitDiesel671 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

"Best Brand?" That must be why we (and all other U.S. class 1 railroads) scrapped all our Alcos in the 1970s...

choirboyfromhell (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Yes, the only diesel I ever encountered that didn't use head gaskets or was a one-piece liner/head. Power packs? What power packs?