The ALCO PA was a family of A1A-A1A diesel locomotives built to haul passenger trains. The locomotives were built in Schenectady, New York, in the United States, by a partnership of the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) and General Electric (GE) between June, 1946 and December, 1953.

2025年2月21日 · The Smithsonian's Alco PA, former AT&SF #59-L, has since been donated to the Museum of the American Railroad in Texas. The goal now of the museum is to fully, cosmetically restore the locomotive (currently only an empty shell as well) back into its original AT&SF "Warbonnet" livery as #59-L.

Obtained from the Santa Fe in December of 1967 and painted in a blue version of the Santa Fe’s "Warbonnet" scheme, the four famous ALCo PA-1s were used to upgrade the power on passenger trains between Albany and Montreal. The D&H owned a fifth PA, the ex-New Haven #0783, which was used for spare parts.

2023年4月19日 · The arrival of four former Santa Fe Alco PAs in 1967 ushered in a decade of colorful Delaware & Hudson passenger operations.

The first PA-1 and PB-1 were released by ALCO for testing on the Lehigh Valley on June 26, 1946. Photos of the first PA-1 and PB-1 testing on the Lehigh Valley in Black Demo paint are in Richard Steinbrenner's ALCO A Centennial Remembrance pp255-258.

2020年6月14日 · Surviving ALCO PAs; Discussion of the past and present operations of the Long Island Rail Road.

The Alco PA: A Very Pretty Lady . On September of 1946, in an elaborate ceremony at the Alco plant at Schenectady, New York, a shiny new diesel passenger locomotive was revealed to the world. It was the first production-run version of the PA-1.

2009年10月4日 · ALCo PAs; Discussion about the Union Pacific operations past and present. Official site can be found here: UPRR.COM.

2016年3月7日 · Yesterday, I purchased a beautiful "N-Scale" NYC passenger train consist with an ALCO PA-1 and PA-2 followed by six cars: two RPO's, with six passenger cars following, all in the two-tone grey paint scheme, the end car is a "Creek" series rounded end observation car.....Would this consist be typical of any of the New York Central's many ...

Introduced in 1946 (which is presumably the date of this brochure), the PA’s squarish lines clearly distinguished it from the GM E-series locomotives, and its throaty sounds led Trains magazine editor rail historian George Hilton to title it an “ honorary steam locomotive.”