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ALCO Century 415
🇺🇸 United States ·built by American Locomotive Company· from 1966· class of diesel locomotives
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1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. CRIP 415 (Alco C415) location unknown, probably Chicago, June 1972 (22405483831): railfan 44· Public domain
what is it?
The ALCO Century 415 is a diesel-electric locomotive of B-B wheel arrangement produced by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) as part of their Century Series of locomotives.
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 60 years ago, in 1966.
- 1.1 MW is about 13 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1966–1968
- number built
- 26
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- American Locomotive Company
- top speed
- —
- power
- 1.1 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- B-B
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q4652264, Wikipedia: ALCO Century 415 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.