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MLW RSC-24
🇨🇦 Canada ·built by Montreal Locomotive Works· from 1959· model of 4 Canadian diesel-electric locomotives
what is it?
The MLW RSC-24 was a type of diesel-electric locomotive built by Montreal Locomotive Works for use on the Canadian National Railway (CN). Only four RSC-24s were built – all in 1959. They were numbered 1800–1803 by CN. The locomotives were conceived by MLW as a way to use the 12-cylinder 244 diesel engines removed from MLW FPA-2s that were receiving the more-capable Alco 251 engine (making them similar to the MLW FPA-4 locomotive).
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 67 years ago, in 1959.
- 1 MW is about 12 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
- 1959
- status
- retired
- number built
- 4
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇨🇦 Canada
- builders
- Montreal Locomotive Works
- operators
- Canadian National Railway
- top speed
- —
- power
- 1 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- A1A'A1A'
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q6716683, Wikipedia: MLW RSC-24 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.