LoL,glad it's not as busy as the two NR in Aboriginal Livery!!! http://www.trainboard.com/ultimatebb.php/ubb/get_topic/f/9/t/006687/p/1.html#000009 </font>[/QUOTE]Oops I spoke too soon, Harold,BHP currently has 8 AC6000's more were on order but as Sten stated there could be SD70ACE's on the horizon. I'd prefer more -9's though.........
useless fact. BHP's AC6000s were the first ordered, although anytime you read the who got them first books it says CSX........ because they rolled out of the plant and onto home rails instead of being shipped halfway around the world. All of BHP's AC6000's are 6000hp and were the units involved in the world record haulage train.
Throughout history? Every continent but Antartica. Some of the very first 2-8-2 steam engines were built by Baldwin for Japan. That's why they're called Mikados. In the early years if the diesel age, both ALCO and EMD exported aggressively, and Whitcombs and Davenports were popular all over too. GE has exported diesels large and small. ALCO exported a few to India, and last I heard, India still license-builds variations of the design, complete with 251 model V-16 engines. Here's some nearly sixty year old EMDs still running in Cuba... http://www.pilotguides.com/tv-shows/tough-trains/cuba/
Here some pictures of two still surviving USATC S160 in Italy, one of the two largest groups of US built locos in Italy. Both related to World Wars. https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locomotiva_FS_736 (in Italian) This one is in an open air museum in Turin. And the other, is in the National Railway museum in the Naples area. As you can see, the first one still bears the USATC markings, under the faded Italian paint. There were also US (ALCO) built steamers during WWI, to Italian specs in the group 735 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FS_Class_735 (English) No electric and no diesels, as we produced our own designs, just until about 2000. both were consolidations with about 1000hp and 15 tons axle load, as you can see the 735 looks quite different from the S160 (mostly due to the S160 being designed to fit the smaller UK loading gauge) very much more as Italian steamers of the time, especially on the firebox door and cabin. 736 were mostly scrapped or sold to Greece few years after the war, mostly due to their differences from the italian steamers and the fact that were almost all oilburners (they were used until the war damaged Italian steamers were repaired) the 735 lasted from the late 1910 to the early seventies and were much appreciated by engineers and mechanics.
