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The four licensees for ALCo products were the following:
This company was a merger of several ship construction and engineering
companies all over Spain. It was founded on Dec. 1st, 1969. Two of the
nine plants produced rolling stock for domestic and foreign railroads. One
of them, the so-called Villaverde Works at Madrid completed 10
diesel-electrics under model designation DM535B for the State Railways of
Ecuador, these were similar to the ALCo model DL535S/series 313 which the
RENFE rostered 50 units.
Around 1974/75 the Villaverde Works (adjacent to the RENFE station
Villaverda Bajo) got independent and was now called Aplicaciones Tecnicas
Industriales S.A., or short: ATEINSA. Their recent involvement with ALCo
products were overhauls of 36 ex RENFE series 313's due to sales to
Portugal (18 units) and Argentina/Trenes de Buenos Aires (18 units).
CAF built several DL500S/series 321 (end cab World Locomotives) for the
RENFE.
40 of the 50 DL535S's were built at Euskalduna, the other 10 were
assembled in Schenectady, NY.
Apparently dealing otherwise with ship construction, a number of the 80
DL500S was built at the SECN.
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