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Lima-Hamilton 2500HP Transfer Locomotive
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Lima Locomotive Works· from 1950· model of twin-engined diesel locomotive
what is it?
The A-3177 (LT-2500) was a diesel-electric transfer-unit locomotive, built by the Lima-Hamilton Corporation between 1950 and 1951. The A-3177 was the final locomotive model produced by Lima-Hamilton before the company merged with the Baldwin Locomotive Works in September 1951 to form the Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corporation (BLH). All twenty-two units were ordered by the Pennsylvania Railroad, with the last one, #5683, completed on September 12, 1951, the day after BLH was formed.
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.
- 1.9 MW is about 22 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- 22.3 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1950–1951
- status
- retired
- number built
- 22
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Lima Locomotive Works
- operators
- Pennsylvania Railroad
- top speed
- —
- power
- 1.9 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co′Co′
- length
- 22.3 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q6548787, Wikipedia: Lima-Hamilton 2500HP Transfer Locomotive (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.