ALCO 300

The ALCO 300 was an early example of a diesel-electric switcher locomotive that was built by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) of Schenectady, New York between 1931 and 1938.
Following purchase of the engine manufacturer McIntosh & Seymour in 1929, ALCO built a 300 hp (220 kW) boxcab locomotive. This boxcab locomotive was numbered as #300, and it was built as an ALCO demonstrator. Another demonstrator #300 was built as an end cab switcher in July 1931 also using General Electric electrical equipment. This unit was sold to the Lehigh Valley Railroad as its #102. A subsequent 300 horsepower (220 kW) end cab switcher was sold to the Lehigh Valley Railroad as its #103 in December 1931. A McIntosh and Seymour Box cab Lehigh Valley Railroad #125 which was rebuilt with an ALCO 330 engine in 1931 and then renumbered as Lehigh Valley #101.
None have been preserved, All of them were scrapped, thus rendering them extinct.
Category:Diesel locomotives
Category:Electric locomotives
Category:Diesel-electric locomotives
Category:ALCO locomotives
Category:Switcher locomotives
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Category:Four-axled diesel locomotives
Category:Lehigh Valley Locomotives
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Category:ALCO diesel locomotives