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ALCO Century 628
🇺🇸 United States ·built by American Locomotive Company· from 1963· model of American 2800hp Co′Co′ diesel-electric locomotives
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2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Hamersley Iron 2000 locomotive, Dampier: Nachoman-au· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. Lehigh Valley 630 (Century 628) at Newark, NJ yards, November 8, 1969 (25454218284): railfan 44· Public domain
what is it?
The ALCO Century 628 is a six-axle, 2,750 hp (2,051 kW) diesel-electric locomotive. A total of 186 C628s were built between December 1963 and December 1968. Of these, 135 were for US railroads, 46 for Mexican railroads, and five for Australia.
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.
- 2.1 MW is about 24 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
- 1963–1968
- number built
- 186
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- American Locomotive Company, A. E. Goodwin
- top speed
- —
- power
- 2.1 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- C-C
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q4652267, Wikipedia: ALCO Century 628 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.