Are there enough 3rl "C" Series Alcos available on the 3rail market today? Would you like to see more?
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Paul
I am assuming you are asking about the Alcos Century series 420/628/630?
There will never be enough c series. Would love to see c636 and c415
No. Need this:
I would be very interested if someone (preferably Lionel or a Lionel-friend for command control) would produce the little-known, modern and most powerful unit that Alco ever made: the Century 636.
Built 1967 and 1968, right before ALCo left the loco business. Illinois Central and Penn Central owned them, as well as SP&S.
Some others were sold to Australian mining companies.
The Last ALCo, so far as I know. Big.
Never enough Alcos. I agree 636 being produced would be good. What I would like to see are the MTH C628/630 in the premiere line with 2/3 rail capablablity and a high nose N&W/CNW units made.
@suzukovich Yes, you are correct.
I'm with Ben...never enough of them! Especially versions with a higher level of detail and features. I'm thinking along the lines of MTH Premier, Lionel Legacy or Atlas Master Line.
And while we're at it, how about accurate prime mover and other engine sounds, too? Capturing these sounds should be no problem, even in the year 2015. Heck, a visit to the Delaware-Lackawanna RR (with it's almost-all ALCo Motive power roster) would provide any of the manufacturers/ importers with just about everything they would need!
And while we're at it, how about accurate prime mover and other engine sounds, too? Capturing these sounds should be no problem, even in the year 2015. Heck, a visit to the Delaware-Lackawanna RR (with it's almost-all ALCo Motive power roster) would provide any of the manufacturers/ importers with just about everything they would need!
Like bluelinec4 and others stated:
- ALCo C636 : Demo , PC[Ordered by PRR] SP&S, IC, Quebec Cartier
Secondary owners [CR, NYSW, BN, Morrison Knudson]
- ALCo C430: Demo, NYC, Reading, Seaboard Coast Line, GB&W
Secondary owners [CR, NYSW, M&E, Morrison Knudson]
- ALCo C415 : Demo, Hamersely Iron, Monongahela Connecting RR, CRI&P, SP, SP&S-BN
- ALCo S5/6 : Demo, B&M, ARmco Steel, Belt Rwy, NP[BN], Republic Steel, Sheffield Steel, SP, South Buffalo, US Pipe & Foundry, WM.
- ALCo T6: PRR, N&W, A&M, Mononghela, Ohio Central
need to be made!
I saw these two Alco Centuries parked in Emporium, PA last week.
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I would love a C415 and C636 in SP&S, and would also buy a C636 in Alco Demonstrator colors. GN leased the Alco C636 demos for awhile (before they went to M-K) and ran them on the Inside Gateway (Oregon Trunk & GN connection to WP at Bieber, CA), basing them at Klamath Falls but contracting with SP&S for heavy maintenance in Vancouver, WA when required.
The C415's were popular in the Pacific Northwest. In addition to SP&S, the Columbia and Cowlitz and the Chehalis Western both had them. (Both roads served Weyerhaeuser and the CW was owned by them. I believe C&C only had one.)
