ALCO T-6
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The Alco T6 was a diesel-electric locomotive of the switcher
Switcher
A switcher or shunter is a small railroad locomotive intended not for moving trains over long distances but rather for assembling trains ready for a road locomotive to take over, disassembling a train that has been...

 type rated at 1000 hp, that rode on two-axle trucks
Bogie
A bogie is a wheeled wagon or trolley. In mechanics terms, a bogie is a chassis or framework carrying wheels, attached to a vehicle. It can be fixed in place, as on a cargo truck, mounted on a swivel, as on a railway carriage/car or locomotive, or sprung as in the suspension of a caterpillar...

, having a B-B wheel arrangement.

The 'T' stood for 'Transfer', meaning this locomotive was capable of faster transition and higher sustained speeds than the regular 'S' - type yard switcher series.

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Railroad Quantity Road numbers Notes
Altos Hornos de Mexico
Altos Hornos de México
Altos Hornos de México , is the largest steel mining corporation in Mexico with installed capacity of 4.2 million metric tons of liquid steel.-History:AHMSA was founded in Mexico by American Harold R. Pape in 1942...

, S.A.
2
126–127
Brewster Phospahtes 
2
16–17
Kaiser Steel
Kaiser Steel
Kaiser Ventures is an American corporation, headquartered in Ontario, California. It was founded by Henry J. Kaiser to provide steel plate for the Pacific Coast shipbuilding industry, which expanded during World War II, then shrank, then expanded again during the Korean War...

 
2
1022–1023
Monongahela Connecting Railroad
Monongahela Connecting Railroad
The Monongahela Connecting Railroad or Mon Conn was a small industrial railroad in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, now part of the Allegheny Valley Railroad. It was a subsidiary of the Jones & Laughlin Steel Company and a large portion of its work was for its parent company, though it also served other...

 
1
400
Newburgh and South Shore Railroad
Newburgh and South Shore Railroad
The Newburg & South Shore Railroad is a railroad that operates in Cleveland, Ohio. The line operates on 13 miles of railroad track. It was originally built to service U.S. Steel mills in Cleveland. The line is owned by Omnitrax....

 
2
1016–1017 Last locomotives built by Alco
Norfolk and Western Railroad 
40
10–49 10–11 to Chesapeake Western Railway
Chesapeake Western Railway
The Chesapeake Western Railway is an intrastate railroad operating subsidiary of the Norfolk Southern Railway in west-central Virginia. It extended from Elkton on the South Fork of the Shenandoah River in Rockingham County to Stokesville in Augusta Country at the foot of the Allegheny Mountains. ...

Pennsylvania Railroad
Pennsylvania Railroad
The Pennsylvania Railroad was an American Class I railroad, founded in 1846. Commonly referred to as the "Pennsy", the PRR was headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania....

 
6
8424–8429
Portland Terminal Railroad (formerly Northern Pacific Terminal) (Oregon)
2
46–47

The Delaware Coast Line Railway, the Ohio Central Railway and the Arkansas & Missouri operate the T-6. The OHC's is unique because it was built with Alco's special Hi-Ad trucks, the only one built with those trucks.
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