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FM Consolidation Line
🇨🇦 Canada ·built by Fairbanks-Morse· from 1950· series of American locomotive models
what is it?
The Consolidation Line was a series of diesel-electric railway locomotive designs produced by Fairbanks-Morse and its Canadian licensee, the Canadian Locomotive Company. Railfans have dubbed these locomotives C-liners, but F-M referred to the models collectively as the C-Line. A combined total of 165 units (123 cab-equipped lead A units and 42 cabless booster B units) were produced by F-M and the CLC between 1950 and 1955.
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 76 years ago, in 1950.
- 1.8 MW is about 21 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- 17.1 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1950–1955
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 165
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇨🇦 Canada
- builders
- Fairbanks-Morse, Canadian Locomotive Company
- operators
- Canadian Pacific Railway, Canadian National Railway, Long Island Rail Road, Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, Pennsylvania Railroad, New York Central Railroad, Fairbanks-Morse
- top speed
- —
- power
- 1.8 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- B-B or B-A1A
- length
- 17.1 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5426708, Wikipedia: FM Consolidation Line (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.