Certainly can't mistake that ALCO "face.' Recognize it world-wide. Curiously, 278, in turn, looks rather Baldwin-esque.
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| Posted by Triplex on March 26, 2017 | |
Well, they have Westinghouse electrics, anyway, so I wouldn't be surprised if the design was from Baldwin.
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About Renfe series 318, in 1957, RENFE received from the Export Import Bank a loan of 8 million dollars for the acquisition of 22 diesel locomotives. One of the conditions of the credit was that these locomotives were bought in the USA. Manufactured by ALCO, the locomotives arrived in Spain, decorated in white and green stripes.
The 278 series was based on a locomotive designed in the USA by the companies Baldwin (mechanical component) and Westinghouse (electrical part) but built in Spain by the Spanish Society of Naval Construction from equipment sent from the USA.
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