#3906
ALCO Century 636
🇺🇸 United States ·built by American Locomotive Company· from 1967· class of diesel locomotives
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what is it?
The ALCO Century 636 was the most powerful single-engine diesel-electric locomotive constructed by the American Locomotive Company (ALCo). It used their 251 prime mover. The locomotive had a C-C wheel arrangement and 3,600 horsepower (2,700 kW).
who runs it
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 59 years ago, in 1967.
- 2.7 MW is about 32 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
- 1967–1970
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 63
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- American Locomotive Company, A. E. Goodwin
- operators
- American Locomotive Company, Illinois Central Railroad, Pennsylvania Railroad, Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway
- top speed
- —
- power
- 2.7 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 Q4652270, Wikipedia: ALCO Century 636 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.