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Locomotive #201 is a model RSD-4 constructed by the American Locomotive Company in 1951. This road locomotive has 1,600 horsepower, is geared for a top speed of 60 miles per hour, and has a total weight of 286,000 pounds. It is fully operational and often pulls excursion trains on the Museum's Snoqualmie Valley Railroad. The #201 is a diesel-electric locomotive: a diesel engine turns an electric generator and electric motors turn each axle. It has an air compressor to supply air for the air brake system and seating for two crew members. When purchased new by Kennecott, the #201 was used in the company's Nevada and Utah operations to pull trains of ore to the smelter. The #201 is very similar to locomotives used by the Northern Pacific Railway, Great Northern Railway, and the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway throughout the northwest. The #201 was donated to the Northwest Railway Museum in 1984.
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