A Year Of Demonstrations A Half Century Of Service

ALCO’s DL-640 Locomotive

by Christopher MacDermot and Richard Steinbrenner.

Cloth with dust jacket, 178 pages, 11x8.5 horizontal format, color and b&w photos (150 in color), publicity releases, maps, plans, technical reports.

"Beginning with the 1960 demonstration tours, this book looks back onalmost a half-century history of this often underestimated locomotive design that managed to sell only 26 units, but:

• Led to several of ALCO’s most successful designs in the Century Series.
• Despite a nomadic existence, has achieved a remarkable longevity, led by 2 units that remain in operation today.

• Chris MacDermot chronicles with great insight and rare wit his year riding and technically supporting the demonstrator units.
• Dick Steinbrenner documents the migrations of each of the individual units during the course of their lifetimes.
• The authors and the railroaders engaged in operation and maintenance of the DL-640s provide a technical analysis of those factors that contributed to their longevity.