Cleveland/Akron: New ALCO capital of the country?

Trains Magazine Steam & Preservation
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Look out Schenectady!

Good news from the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad:

https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/news/2024/06/23/cuyahoga-valley-scenic-railroad-acquires-2-new-historic-train-engines/74169379007/

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Not even close. India is the Alco capital of the world. Admittedly, the vast majority were built in India under license agreements, but they do have 251 engines.

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Great point, my friend, so I changed the original post thread because of it. Thank you.

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The article doesn’t mention any specifics. Are these Schenectady Alco’s or Montreal MLW’s like the FPA’s CVSR already owns?

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And still earning their keep on mainline express trains occasonally:

https://railpictures.net/photo/855937/

https://railpictures.net/photo/848971/

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Yes Cuyohoga Valley Scenic is certainly going to have a large fleet.

They will be neck and neck with the Delaware-Lackawanna, for sure.

https://railpictures.net/photo/859642/

https://railpictures.net/photo/859544/

https://railpictures.net/photo/859554/

https://railpictures.net/photo/859496/

https://railpictures.net/photo/859877/

https://railpictures.net/photo/859811/

https://railpictures.net/photo/857839/

https://railpictures.net/photo/856694/

https://railpictures.net/photo/856767/

Here is the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad’s fleet of locomotives before the acquisition of the Grand Canyon locomotives - impressive:

https://www.cvsr.org/history/our-fleet

Here is the Delaware-Lackawanna locomotive fleet:

https://www.thedieselshop.us/Del-Lack.HTML

Looks like CVSR will have the largest fleet of Alco FA locomotives for sure.

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I guess they like loud diesels in the national park [;)] and so do I! [bow]