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ALCO RS-36
🇺🇸 United States ·built by American Locomotive Company· from 1962· diesel-electric locomotive
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. D&U D&H RS36 5017: Cacv12000 ( talk )· CC BY 3.0
- 2. Alco-rs36-diesel-locomotive north-creek-new-york 2019-05-08: Mobilus In Mobili· CC BY-SA 2.0
what is it?
The ALCO RS-36 (DL 701) is a 1,800 horsepower (1,300 kW) diesel-electric locomotive of which 40 were produced by ALCO between February 1962 and August 1963 for seven railroads.
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 64 years ago, in 1962.
- 1.3 MW is about 16 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 19 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 17.4 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1962–1963
- number built
- 40
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- American Locomotive Company
- top speed
- —
- power
- 1.3 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- B-B
- length
- 17.4 m
- weight
- 112 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q4652287, Wikipedia: ALCO RS-36 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.