American Locomotive Company

But in July 1960, the United States Merchant Marine ships USNS Marine Fiddler arrived at Camp Tuto, carrying the components of the PM-2A nuclear reactor.

Developed for the Army by American Locomotive Company, or ALCO, the PM-2 was powered by 20 kilograms of highly enriched uranium and had a maximum rated power output of two megawatts of electricity and heat, and was designed to power Camp Century for up to 10 years and replace more than 3 million liters of diesel fuel.

While described by the Army as semi-portable, the reactor and its related equipment weighed over 400 tons.

However, each component was designed to fit inside the cargo bay of a Lockheed C-130 Hercules transport aircraft, theoretically allowing the unit to be transported anywhere in the world.

and now it's the other one that gets to operate so what is the the the two existing engines in canada number one and two what are their relationships to being able to run

yeah so the two the two current locomotives they actually celebrated their 100th anniversary this week uh there's a you know uh banner and birthday hats and a full celebration uh So they were built by the Montreal Locomotive Works, which was associated with ALCO in 1926.

And there were also 040 industrial tank engines, saddle tanks.

The saddle tank was key for a lot of industrial applications, but also for the original portage railway.

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you don't think of but of course you know they got to keep an eye on these things as well as their entire uh executive train was there yeah yeah so and that was neat to see too some really nice cars yeah um Being a big diesel fan of myself, one of the highlights of the trip was watching, I can't remember the name of the short line that runs out of there that uses all the big Alco M630s.

Actually, they're Montreal locomotives.

Yeah, they're Montreal.

And that was sitting on the turntable.

And I watched that get fired up and roll off.

So that was kind of fun to watch because you don't get to see big Alcos very often anymore.

I watched there was a YouTube video, a couple YouTube videos about the 250 gathering of all as many of the 250 locomotives that they could get together.