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Published: 2014-03-04 12:39:48 +0000 UTC; Views: 676; Favourites: 42; Downloads: 6
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Arkansas and Missouri has been known for years by the railfan community for it being a exclusively all Alco railroad running 4-6 combinations of C420s on their daily road freight. When word got out they placed an order for 3 EMD ACes, the writing was on the wall. The Alcos would disappear from the road freights. Within a month of that happening, a friend and myself made our way over to capture the C420s before they would be replaced.Here, 5 C420s roar up a grade outside of Monett, MO.
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It's sad that many of these engines are disappearing from the world, but luckily there are some railroads that are either buying them up to run on their lines, or refusing to get rid of them.
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I think they're pretty well gone at this point. Haven't heard much about them lately.
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Funny you mention this since A&M just toasted their ACes in a washout!
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I guess I'm lucky as one of the railroads near me runs ALCos almost exclusively. They even have several in regular service painted for fallen flags including an RS3 painted for Reading, another RS3 painted for Central RR of New Jersey, and another ALCo (not sure what type) painted for the Lehigh Valley. I hope at least some of these are preserved.
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Delaware and Lackawanna??
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Yes, the Delaware Lackawanna.
Also, the Lehigh Valley diesel is a C420. I am in the process of posting a picture of both the Reading and Lehigh Valley units along with ex-Adirondack C424 #2403.
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A sad situation that will soon be replaying itself a number of times across the country simply due to the fact that supplies of "new old stock" for ALCO replacement parts have simply been exhausted. The ALCO engines running today may have a few more years left if the groups that own them have a couple of sacrafice engines to cannabilize for parts but those too will eventually be exhausted.
We have a shortline here in Kentucky that ran ALCO S-1's exclusively until a couple of years ago when the cost of replacement parts simply got too high and hey had to buy an EMD SW-8. Now they just run one ALCO for special occasions and keep another as a parts engine for it.
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