Alco PAs in action in Mexico

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Hello all ;

Here are some videos depicting Alco’s glamour Girl in action in Mexico. I love it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1n-PjFRvrA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xYUR1ZPA8E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BML0X5O3V8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEdQ2qT_L3U

These engines are preserved, and in operational condition, being switched on from time to time. Their house is now Mexico’s Railway Museum, in Puebla. Here’s the complete adress

Mexico’s National Railway Museum Museo National de los Ferrocarriles Mexicanos,

11 None 1005 esq. 10 Poniente, Centro Histórico, Puebla, Puebla CP 72000, Mexico.

Phone + 52 222 232 4988 or 246 0395, e-mail musferro@prodigy.net.mx,

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Two of the 4 that made it to Mexico are back in the US now. At least one of the remaining two in Mexico was ‘stuffed & mounted’; and the other may hve been restored. Of the two back in the US; one is going to the Smithsonian, and the other will be kept by by a private party.

Interesting video…looks like some commercial stuff from 10-20 years ago

Jim Bernier

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Great videos. Is the prime mover original (rebuilt)?

Can anyone tell me how to save videos on “YOU TUBE and Photobucket” on my hard drive?

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The PA’s that went to Mexico were all rebuilt with 251 engines while they were still on D&H.

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What happened to those NYC 4-8-4 S-1 Niagaras that allegedly went to Mexico?

Roger Williams, longtime TRAINS subscriber

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I don’t know if any NYC Niagaras went to Mexico, but the NdeM called its 4-8-4s Niagaras and they were a lot smaller than the NYC ones, so they couldn’t be the same. You might be thinking of those. There could have been some NYC ones sent there too though.

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If you’re thinking of the QR-1 4-8-4’s that were the last big steam in Mexico, they were bought new by NdeM.