CLMW FA-1

CLMW FA-1

The ALCO FA-1 is a 1,500 horsepower (later uprated to 1,600 horsepower) diesel electric cab unit, built for road freight service. First offered in 1946, the FA-1 found several customers, including the nascent Cleveland and Midwestern, who bought several FA-1s in 1946 to use as their first generation of road power. The FA-1s proved rather unimpressive to the Cleveland and Midwestern, and quickly found themselves stored when EMD F7s arrived on the railroad, ordered in greater numbers. The eight CLMW FA-1s would sit on a storage track for over seventy years, only occasionally being ran and visiting the shops to keep them in one piece. Despite their EMD counterparts receiving significant rebuilds including a brand new prime mover, the FA-1s would see no such upgrades. However, the FA-1s would be pulled from the storage track in June of 2026, and all eight for would be placed on an indefinite, no-cost lease with the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad, with the intent of lowering costs on the CVSR by alleviating the need to lease power from leasing services. The FA-1s find themselves among brethren ALCO/MLW at the CVSR, and the CLMW stockpile of ALCO spare parts has been made available to both its own FA-1s on excursion service as well as the CVSR's FPA-4s and sole FPB-4, ensuring that these historic locomotives will be around for years to come.

CLMW FA-1
alco_alpha_numbers
alphanumber_0a.tga 4.04KB
alphanumber_0b.tga 4.04KB
alphanumber_1a.tga 4.04KB
alphanumber_1b.tga 4.04KB
alphanumber_2a.tga 4.04KB
alphanumber_2b.tga 4.04KB
alphanumber_3a.tga 4.04KB
alphanumber_3b.tga 4.04KB
alphanumber_4a.tga 4.04KB
alphanumber_4b.tga 4.04KB
alphanumber_5a.tga 4.04KB
alphanumber_5b.tga 4.04KB
alphanumber_6a.tga 4.04KB
alphanumber_6b.tga 4.04KB
alphanumber_7a.tga 4.04KB
alphanumber_7b.tga 4.04KB
alphanumber_8a.tga 4.04KB
alphanumber_8b.tga 4.04KB
alphanumber_9a.tga 4.04KB
alphanumber_9b.tga 4.04KB
alco_art
alco_art_512.texture.txt 65 bytes
alco_art_icon.texture.txt 65 bytes
consist.bmp 9.05KB
consist_a.bmp 9.05KB
preview.bmp 257.05KB
preview_a.bmp 257.05KB
alco_body
alco_body.im 250.15KB
digit_1a.texture.txt 31 bytes
digit_1a.tga 812 bytes
digit_1b.texture.txt 31 bytes
digit_1b.tga 812 bytes
digit_2a.texture.txt 31 bytes
digit_2a.tga 812 bytes
digit_2b.texture.txt 31 bytes
digit_2b.tga 812 bytes
digit_3a.texture.txt 31 bytes
digit_3a.tga 812 bytes
digit_3b.texture.txt 31 bytes
digit_3b.tga 812 bytes
digit_4a.texture.txt 31 bytes
digit_4a.tga 812 bytes
digit_4b.texture.txt 31 bytes
digit_4b.tga 812 bytes
digit_5a.texture.txt 31 bytes
digit_5a.tga 812 bytes
digit_5b.texture.txt 31 bytes
digit_5b.tga 812 bytes
digit_6a.texture.txt 31 bytes
digit_6a.tga 812 bytes
digit_6b.texture.txt 31 bytes
digit_6b.tga 812 bytes
env_glass.bmp 12.05KB
env_glass.texture.txt 32 bytes
env_metal.bmp 12.05KB
env_metal.texture.txt 32 bytes
main.bmp 768.05KB
main.texture.txt 27 bytes
alco_shadow
alco_shadow.im 51.74KB
black.texture.txt 28 bytes
black.tga 812 bytes
• config.txt 3.74KB
• icon_0.texture.txt 86 bytes
• icon_0.tga 32.02KB
• icon_1.texture.txt 86 bytes
• icon_1.tga 32.02KB
• icon_2.texture.txt 86 bytes
• icon_2.tga 32.02KB
• thumbnail_0.jpg 9.47KB