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MLW RS-10
🇨🇦 Canada ·built by Montreal Locomotive Works· from 1954· model of 129 Canadian 1600 hp roadswitchers
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Ontario Northland MLW RS-10 no 1400: Alasdair McLellan· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. CP RS10 8564 with the Cornwall Swing westbound at Brucy, QC in September 1979: railfan 44· Public domain
what is it?
The Montreal Locomotive Works RS-10 was a 1,600 horsepower (1,200 kW) diesel locomotive built for the Canadian market. It was essentially an ALCO RS-3 in a redesigned carbody. It retained the RS-3's 12-cylinder Alco 244 engine.
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 72 years ago, in 1954.
- 1.2 MW is about 14 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 18 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 16.2 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
- 1954–1957
- number built
- 129
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇨🇦 Canada
- builders
- Montreal Locomotive Works
- operators
- Canadian National Railway, Canadian Pacific Railway, BC Rail, Ontario Northland Railway
- top speed
- 105 km/h
- power
- 1.2 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Bo′Bo′
- length
- 16.2 m
- weight
- 110 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q6716675, Wikipedia: MLW RS-10 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.