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Locomotive profile: Alco’s C630 diesel electric locomotive

By Angela Cotey | March 16, 2020

| Last updated on November 3, 2020


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Norfolk & Western C630 No. 1134 at Roanoke, Virginia.
Norfolk & Western C630 No. 1134 at Roanoke, Virginia.
Rick Johnson
C630

•YEARS BUILT: 1965-1969

•MANUFACTURERS: Alco, Montreal

•OPERATED ON: Atlantic Coast Line, Canadian National, Canadian Pacific, Chesapeake & Ohio, Louisville & Nashville, Norfolk & Western, Pacific Great Eastern,
Pennsylvania Railroad, Reading, Southern Pacific, others

•NAMES: C630, M630

•QUANTITY: 133

•HORSEPOWER: 3,000

•KNOWN FOR: The first A.C. transmission sold by an American manufacturer

•STATUS: Union Pacific 2907, N&W 1135, and Reading 5308, preserved. Western New York & Pennsylvania 630 still active

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