ALCO Century 424

Century 424
Type and origin
Power type Diesel-electric
Builder Alco Products
Montreal Locomotive Works
Model Century 424
Build date April 1963 – May 1967
Total produced 190
Specifications
Configuration:
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 • AAR B-B
Gauge 4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Prime mover Alco 16-251B
Performance figures
Power output 2,400 hp (1,790 kW)
Career
Locale North America

The Century 424 was a four-axle, 2,400 hp (1,790 kW) diesel-electric locomotive of the road switcher type. 190 were built between April 1963 and May 1967. Cataloged as a part of Alco's Century line of locomotives, the C424 was intended to replace the earlier RS-27 model and offered as a lower-priced alternative to the C425. Montreal Locomotive Works also built this locomotive as MLW Century 424.

Original Owners

Reading Railroad ALCO C424 5202 at Rutherford Yard in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in 1970

Locomotives built by Alco

Owner Quantity Numbers Notes
Belt Railway of Chicago
6
600–605
Erie Lackawanna Railway
15
2401–2415
Erie Mining Company
1
500
Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México
45
8100–8144
Green Bay and Western Railroad
4
311–314
Pennsylvania Railroad
1
2415 rebuilt from RS27 demonstrator 640-1
Reading Company
10
5201–5210
Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway
7
300–306
Toledo, Peoria and Western Railway
2
800–801 now Morristown & Erie Railway #18 and 19. 19 preserved by Tri-State Railway Historical Society.
Wabash Railroad
7
B900-B906 Built to NDM specifications, prohibited from being used as lead unit
Total 98

Locomotives built by MLW

Owner Quantity Numbers Notes
Canadian National Railway
41
3200–3240
Canadian Pacific Railway
51
8300, 4201–4250 8300 renumbered 4200
Total 92

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