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ALCO Century 424
🇨🇦 Canada ·built by American Locomotive Company· from 1963· model of US/Canadian diesel locomotive
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. CVSR4241: Chesapeake at en.wikipedia· Public domain
what is it?
The Century 424 is a four-axle, 2,400 hp (1,790 kW) diesel-electric locomotive. 183 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.
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 63 years ago, in 1963.
- 1.8 MW is about 21 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
- 1963–1967
- status
- in service
- number built
- 190
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇨🇦 Canada
- builders
- American Locomotive Company, Montreal Locomotive Works
- top speed
- —
- power
- 1.8 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 Q432664, Wikipedia: ALCO Century 424 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.