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Western Railroad Discussion > Great deal if you have an Alco in need of a prime mover!Date: 01/10/25 17:48 Great deal if you have an Alco in need of a prime mover! Author: Alco251 Date: 01/10/25 18:18 Re: Great deal if you have an Alco in need of a prime mover! Author: DD40 Local pick-up only is deal breaker for me.
Date: 01/10/25 18:40 Re: Great deal if you have an Alco in need of a prime mover! Author: Gonut1 Wow, I don't see the problem, I have a pick-em-up truck and Texas is only 1000 miles away. But then again what i do with?. Can't squeeze that into my Z Scale locos.
gonut Date: 01/10/25 18:45 Re: Great deal if you have an Alco in need of a prime mover! Author: ts1457 What locomotive model would this engine be a drop in for?
Date: 01/10/25 18:57 Re: Great deal if you have an Alco in need of a prime mover! Author: callum_out C424, C425, slighly underpower a C628.
out Date: 01/10/25 19:24 Re: Great deal if you have an Alco in need of a prime mover! Author: rrman6 What did this guy standing there say? Was it, "Git' this danged piece out of my hut so I can get my pickup truck in here!!!"
Date: 01/10/25 20:18 Re: Great deal if you have an Alco in need of a prime mover! Author: krm152 Date: 01/10/25 20:28 Re: Great deal if you have an Alco in need of a prime mover! Author: ts1457 krm152 Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALCO_251 I wonder if it is a good deal for stationary power? I'm guessing the locomotives that could use that particular engine are few in number. Of course, if you have one of those locomotives, it could be a fortunate find. Date: 01/10/25 23:46 Re: Great deal if you have an Alco in need of a prime mover! Author: coach Wow--will the D-L go after this eBay offer for their all-ALCO fleet???
Date: 01/11/25 02:48 Re: Great deal if you have an Alco in need of a prime mover! Author: Railbaron What's interesting is that reading the description further one notes the following:
"TWO identical units are available." Interesting that 2 are available. Date: 01/11/25 06:02 Re: Great deal if you have an Alco in need of a prime mover! Author: AndyBrown ts1457 Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > What locomotive model would this engine be a drop > in for? I don't know about "drop in" but I think the M420s are V-12s also. Andy Date: 01/11/25 06:13 Re: Great deal if you have an Alco in need of a prime mover! Author: WrongWayMurphy The Texas & Gulf Rwy just purchased them both
 Date: 01/11/25 06:22 Re: Great deal if you have an Alco in need of a prime mover! Author: engineerinvirginia The generator is still attached....and it's a 12 cylinder!....if you had a body to put it in, you'd have to play with where everything would go...since the carbody would be set up for a 16-251!
Date: 01/11/25 06:32 Re: Great deal if you have an Alco in need of a prime mover! Author: RSD5 Perfect for the group restoring the Alco PA
Dave Date: 01/11/25 06:39 Re: Great deal if you have an Alco in need of a prime mover! Author: RailRat rrman6 Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > What did this guy standing there say? Was it, > "Git' this danged piece out of my hut so I can get > my pickup truck in here!!!" Or The ages old salesman's saying: "Take it away, I'm tired of lookin at it" Jim Baker Riverside, CA Date: 01/11/25 07:31 Re: Great deal if you have an Alco in need of a prime mover! Author: march_hare Likely could be used in a marine application. Lots of bots out there w Alco power.
Date: 01/11/25 07:48 Re: Great deal if you have an Alco in need of a prime mover! Author: Alco251 These were apparently originally purchased by the US Coast Guard, still a big user of Alco and F-M diesels.
Posted from iPhone Date: 01/11/25 09:10 Re: Great deal if you have an Alco in need of a prime mover! Author: Evan_Werkema Did Alco ever sell an entire diesel locomotive for $375,000 in the dollars of the time? Maybe one of their double diesels?
Date: 01/11/25 09:28 Re: Great deal if you have an Alco in need of a prime mover! Author: tomstp WWM must still be under the spell of a sedative.
Date: 01/11/25 10:53 Re: Great deal if you have an Alco in need of a prime mover! Author: NYSWSD70M Evan_Werkema Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Did Alco ever sell an entire diesel locomotive for > $375,000 in the dollars of the time? Maybe one of > their double diesels? Yeah I was thinking the same thing. By comparrison our (MK's) cost to buy a 16V-645E3 or a 16V-710G in 1990 was $120,000 to 140,000 in 1990. |