Producer: Pentrex
Locations: USA, Canada, Mexico
Timeframe: 1986-1997
Length: 1 hour 58 minutee
The final installment of this series. Each features Alco diesel locomotives. Later models appropriate to the time progression. Big Century road power is featured. Schenectady built to Montreal Locomotive Works.
These engines are seen on a variety of railroads. Mainline, Shortlines and Industrial service. Contains some previously released film.
A single DVD. Main Chapter Menu by locomotive types. Billboards with locomotive specifications. No maps. Narration by Dave Drui.
Schenectady built designations. C-425 example. C for Century type. 4 is the four axles. 25 shows 2500 horsepower.
By the way. The old rule of thumb on Alco versus Electromotive of LaGrange engines. The Alcos blow black smoke. The EMDs blow blue.
To the Trains..
Montreal built RS-27/C424 types with CP Rail 4217/ 4250. Brownsville Jct, Maine, a freight from Canada to the Banger and Aroostook.
Two Centuries to New Brighton, Minnesota. C-424M is Delaware and Hudson. Old number was 462. Cheap paint over marks it as 62 now. The D&H was rebuilt. GBW 313 trails.
Susquehanna 2010 with a high hood. Hamburg, New York. A C-420. 251 powered and was originally on Long Island.
C-420M operate at Holbrook, Arizona, on the Apache Railway. The 5 units pull into the yard. This being located off the Santa Fe mainline.
C-628. The last Survivors were working for FCP in Mexico. Number 606 was built in 1966. Pentrex Mexico’s Pacifico Railroad the source for this footage.
C-425. Erie Lackawanna had the first order. Former BCOL 603 is on Mohawk, Adirondack and Northern at Rome, New York.
A trio of Alco diesels at Browns, Illinois. Lead is ex: L&N. The former BN was previously on KYLE.
C-630 5308 is restored in Reading Lines- Beeline Service scheme. This is on Reading and Northern. A 3000 horsepower diesel. Owned by Reading Technical and Historical Society. Working on a Special Excursion Train with an ex: GBW engine, nee Reading Lines.
C-630M trio on Cape Breton. Trains operating in Nova Scotia. Impressive to see these hauling freight at track speed. Additional units in BC Rail paint are viewed in Mexico, working for FNM.
Cartier still operating C-636 and M-636 models. They haul ore predominantly.
Continues with a variety of Bombardier built units. HR-616 was a modernized Century.
Those Incredible Alcos Volume 3
An intriguing show packed with hard to find Alco and Montreal Locomotive Works power. Visits multiple countries to document the assorted examples. No vintage footage. Seems to have been shot in the 1990s.
There is much more to see. Obviously, the review format just has highlights.
The usual high quality Pentrex production.
Alcophiles need this program. Plenty of surprises and perhaps unknown diesels. Any Model Railroader od Railfan should find this wide-ranging show interesting.
Rating: 5 Stars
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