Argentinan ALCo Power

Thanks to the database provided by Mario Mariotti, here's a quick overview about the Argentinan ALCo-powered locomotives, most of them introduced by the former Ferrocarriles Argentinos.

Note: additions and corrections welcome!

GE Shovel-noses

Quite a number of them received an ALCo 6-251D (rated at 1000HP) motor after 1986: 5701,-02,-07,-10,-25,-27,-35,-36,-40,-41,-42,-44,-47,-51,-60,-62,-65,-67,-68,-69.
5725, 5747, 5765 and 5767 received double-cabs and look thus close to those of AFE (Uruguay).
Retired: none (although some of them are waiting orders to enter shops).

GE Shovel-noses

Three of them received a 6-251D (rated at 1000HP) in 1986: 6701,-03,-05, all of them currently awaiting orders to repairs.

ALCo FPD-7 MLW-built BAP 8417 at Haedo yard, April 1998. Pedro Pablo Lacoste photo

8402,-06,-10,-14,-17 are active at BAP. 8403,-20,-24 in repairs. * originally 5551-5575.

ALCo RSD-16 The 8482 is a unit that belonged to the line San Martin. It possesses the second outline of painting of the F.A. The picture was taken in the Kilometer 1 Deposit of Locomotives of the of the line San Martin in Retiro. Marcelo López photo.

8241 received a FIAT A230 motor but returned to ALCo power. Some units received 12-251C during the 80s. Only 18 locos were retired. Some of them received new numbers when transferred to TMS (B801-B831).

GE U13C

6022 recieved in 1993 a (12?)-251 ALCo motor, still in service today. To put the big ALCo in, the roof of the loco was moved up, making it look like a camel.

RSD35

Only seven retired.

RSD35

Only five retired, and 17 for spare-parts.

GAIA 1300 FEMESA 6205, a unit built by GAIA, with a local train to Retiro station on August 17th, 1992. Carlos Sisto photo

Argentinian locos. 6205,-17,-39,-55,-56,-63,-81,-96,-99,-302 (?),-28,-32,-42,-46 recieved ALCo 12-251B in 89/90.
Renumbered in the new companies:
TMS B601-604
B601- renumbered from 6205
B602 - renumbered from 6255
B603 - renumbered from 6296
B604 - renumbered from 6328

TBA D601-605 and C601-605, in service most of them.
C601- renumbered from 6299
C602 - renumbered from 6302
C603 - renumbered from 6332
C604 - renumbered from 6342
C605 - renumbered from 6346
D601 - renumbered from 6217
D602 - renumbered from 6239
D603 - renumbered from 6256
D604 - renumbered from 6263
D605 - renumbered from 6281

The following units went to the Buenos Aires al Pacifico (re-engined with Alco 251):
5272, 5287. Units 5286 and 5289 also went to the BAP, but are still using the original FIAT engines.

RSD39

They were originally RENFE 313 series acquired by TBA.

* Spain

RENFE to TBA re# scheme follows

ALCo DL500S

They were originally RENFE 321 series acquired by BAP and retained their old number. No consecutive number blocks at BAP, see below!

On May 28th 1994 the first 5 ex-321 (old class 2100, to which the here given numbers refer - because the old numberboards were never changed...) came to Argentina. These were: 2106, 2109, 2125, 2155 and 2177.

The 15 units of the second batch (old RENFE nos.): 2107, 2110, 2119, 2120, 2122, 2123, 2126, 2134, 2141, 2147, 2161, 2165, 2167, 2171 and 2178. The units were overhauled bei ATEINSA, Madrid, and repainted to BAP specifications in Spain during the summer of 1995, almost a year before their shipment to Argentina. They arrived in Buenos Aires onboard the freighter "Mascot" on June 7th, 1996 and were immediately taken to BAP's central workshop in Mendoza before entering service.

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