MLW RS-18

MLW RS-18

Type and origin
Power type Diesel-electric
Builder Montreal Locomotive Works
Model RS-18
Build date December 1956 to August 1968
Total produced 351
Specifications
AAR wheel arr B-B
UIC class Bo'Bo'
Gauge 4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)
Prime mover ALCO 251B
RPM range 1000 (max)
Engine type Four-stroke diesel
Displacement 8,016 cu in (131.36 L)
Generator DC generator
Traction motors 4 DC traction motors
Cylinders V12
Cylinder size 9 in × 10.5 in (229 mm × 267 mm)
Transmission Electric
Loco brake Air, optional dynamic
Train brakes Air
Performance figures
Power output 1,800 hp (1,340 kW)
Career
Locale Canada

The MLW RS-18 was an 1,800 hp (1,340 kW) diesel-electric locomotive built by Montreal Locomotive Works between December 1956 and August 1968. It replaced the RS-10 in MLW's catalogue, and production totalled 351 locomotives, to eight customers.

It was the Canadian version of the ALCO RS-11, although MLW did manufacture the RS-11 for Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México.

Canadian National Railway, by far the largest buyer of the RS-18, continued to specify the long hood as the front. By contrast, while all of Canadian Pacific Railway's RS-10s were long-hood-forward, all of their RS-18s were short-hood forward. All of CN and CP's locomotives were delivered with full-height short hoods, as were the first four Pacific Great Eastern Railway, and first Roberval and Saguenay Railway unit. The remaining production was for locomotives with a low short-hood, giving the train crew much better forward vision.

Original owners

Railway Quantity Road number Notes
Canadian National Railway 225 3615–3745, 3830–3893, 3100–3129
Canadian Pacific Railway 72 8729–8800
Cartier Railway 8 101–108
International Nickel Company of Canada 3 208-2 – 208-4
Pacific Great Eastern Railway 29 587–599, 614–626, 628–630 578–599 renumbered 601–613; to British Columbia Railway 601–630
Quebec Iron and Titanium 1 6 Renumbered 16
Roberval and Saguenay Railway 2 24, 25
Wabush Lake Railway / Arnaud Railway 11 901–911
Totals 351

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