ALCO C-855 Apollo

File:Image-ALCO C-855 Apollo.png	Statistics
Type	[[:Category:Unrecognised input "d" Recheck! Locomotives\|Unrecognised input "d" Recheck!]] (140%)
Set	Lunar Program I (+15%)
	Award Information
	Museum
	The ALCO Century 855 was ALCO's most powerful diesel-electric locomotive and, at the time, the most powerful diesel locomotive ever built. Powered by a pair of ALCO 251C diesel engines, and rated at 5,500 horsepower, it was ALCO's answer to the EMD DD35 and the GE U50. The trucks and bolsters of the 855 were similar to those under UP's earlier turbine locomotives. Only two A units and one B unit were built, all for Union Pacific Railroad, which had also requested double-engined locomotives from EMD and GE in order to replace the turbines, which had become uneconomical to operate. They spent their lives in the genereal freight pool at North Platte, however poor performance led to their early retirement and eventual scrapping by February 1972.; Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALCO_Century_855

Unrecognised input "d" Recheck! [[Category:Unrecognised input "d" Recheck! Locomotives]] [[Category:Unrecognised input "d" Recheck! Locomotives (Reward)]]

	ALCO C-855 Apollo			Unrecognised input "d" Recheck!
File:Image-ALCO C-855 Apollo.png		Statistics
		Type	[[:Category:Unrecognised input "d" Recheck! Locomotives\|Unrecognised input "d" Recheck!]] (140%)
		Power	30
		Slots	1
		Tax	300	Undefined
		Dispatch XP	195
		Set	Lunar Program I (+15%)
Award Information
Award From	SO Sep. 2012		Limit
Museum
The ALCO Century 855 was ALCO's most powerful diesel-electric locomotive and, at the time, the most powerful diesel locomotive ever built. Powered by a pair of ALCO 251C diesel engines, and rated at 5,500 horsepower, it was ALCO's answer to the EMD DD35 and the GE U50. The trucks and bolsters of the 855 were similar to those under UP's earlier turbine locomotives. Only two A units and one B unit were built, all for Union Pacific Railroad, which had also requested double-engined locomotives from EMD and GE in order to replace the turbines, which had become uneconomical to operate. They spent their lives in the genereal freight pool at North Platte, however poor performance led to their early retirement and eventual scrapping by February 1972. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALCO_Century_855