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ALCO Century 628

Preserved Hamersley Iron 2000 at 7 Mile Yard, Dampier, Western Australia in July 2003

Type and origin
Power type	Diesel-electric
Builder	ALCO
Model	DL628
Build date	December 1963 - December 1968
Total produced	186

Specifications
Configuration:
• AAR	C-C
Gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)
Prime mover	Alco 16-251C
Generator	586A4 or 586C1R
Traction motors	752E6A

Performance figures
Power output	2,750 hp (2,051 kW)

The ALCO Century 628 was a six-axle, 2,750 hp (2,051 kW) diesel-electric locomotive. A total of 186 C628s were built between December 1963 and December 1968. There were 135 C628s built for US railroads, 46 C628s built for Mexican railroads, and five C628s for Australia.

The C628 replaced the C624 (DL600C/RSD-41) as a part of ALCO's 'Century' line of locomotives. The C624 was intended to replace the earlier RSD-15 model, but was never built. The C628 was offered instead in August 1963.

Hamersley Iron purchased five to haul iron ore services in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Two were built in Schenectady and three by AE Goodwin in Sydney. All had been retired by 1982, with one preserved on a plinth in Dampier.^[1]

The Southern Pacific purchased the four demonstrators in 1964, and an additional 25 C628s were delivered in 1965.

Preserved

Australia

No. 2000 preserved by the Pilbara Railways Historical Society^[2]

North America

Nacionales de Mexico 610, formerly Delaware and Hudson 610, preserved at the Yucatán Railway Museum in Mexico
Ferrocarriles Nacionales de Mexico 606, formerly Ferrocarril de Pacifico 606, preserved at the Yucatán Railway museum in Mexico

References

^ Oberg, Leon (2010). Locomotives of Australia 1850s-2010s. Kenthurst: Rosenberg Publishing. pp. 337–338. ISBN 9781921719011.
^ Exhibits Pilbara Railway Historical Society

Alco Century 628 Study by Win Cuisnier (Preston Cook) Extra 2200 South Issue #54 Oct-Dec 1975 p. 21.
Alco Century (and predecessors) Spec-Profile by Don Dover Extra 2200 South Issue #54 Oct-Dec 1975 p. 22

External links

Media related to ALCO C628 locomotives at Wikimedia Commons

Sarberenyi, Robert. Alco C628 Original Owners.

v t e Diesel–electric locomotives built by ALCO
Switchers	ALCO 300 ALCO 600 HH600 HH660 HH900 HH1000 S-1 S-2 S-3 S-4 DL420 S-5 S-6 T-6 SB-8/SSB-9
RS, RSC and RSD series	RS-1 RS-2 RS-3 (RS-3M) RS-11 RS-27 RS-32 RS-36 RSC-1 RSC-2 RSC-3 RSD-1 MRS-1 RSD-4 RSD-5 RSD-7 RSD-12 RSD-15
Cab units	Rebel power car DL-103b DL-105 DL-107 DL-108 DL-109 DL-110 DL-202 DL-203 FA FB PA PB
Century series	C415 C420 C424 C425 C430 C628 C630 C636 C855
Diesel–hydraulics	DH643
Export locomotives	DL560C RSD-39
Unproduced locomotives	C428 C620 C624 C636F C636P C650DH
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