Just started scanning my slides from Tennessee this morning, which was Alco heaven on the L&N in the late '70s. These shots are from 1978 and 1979 in Knoxville, where many C-420s seemed to congregate. The Centuries were flogged in whatever service they found themselves in, yet they stood strong and shouldered whatever the L&N threw their way.
Thank you. If I'd have had a car on campus, I'd have never graduated. I wish I'd have been able to visit eastern Kentucky at the time, as that region was flush with Alcos as well.
I never had much luck getting good pictures of the six-axle Centuries. They were mostly on through trains, so were hard to catch in a good spot in good light. The L&N even ran some former SAL RS-11s that were equally elusive.
wow..... I have a bunch of ALCO models but unfortunately here in europe, never seen one live. Really appreciate the pictures. And the D&L are the ones featured in the Locos 2019 edition from Kalmbach, with a special on ALCOs?
If I am not mistaken, most military units of USATC had been built with the smallest loading gauge: the British one. That explains the weird looks.
I was wrong, there are (or were I do not really know) some ALCOs in Greece https://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=551216 this one is also Narrow (metre) gauge https://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=138758 Happy ALCOs....
Maurizio, you should go to Spain when containment is over... They have still a bunch of operating DL500 over there (looks like a sort of european gauged PA1 ). Saw one in San Sebastian depot in 2003, infortunately at idle or shut down, so no black smoke belching... Dom
Wow, actually spain is broad gauge, something more than 5 feet i reckon. That is probably why these look broad like the US ones as the loading gauge here on the standard gauge is smaller than yours, in spain is broader.
New Jersey's Black River & Western ran several Alcos. Here's their RS-1 #57, ex-Washington Terminal in May 1983 at Ringoes, NJ.
