Train Simulator Classic Train Simulator: C-424

Train Simulator Classic Train Simulator: C-424 adds the Alco Century 424, a 2,400-horsepower, four-axle diesel road-switcher, in Burlington Northern and Spokane, Portland & Seattle liveries. The locomotive is recreated with authentic performance, sounds, cab and engineer controls, and operating features. The pack also includes 50-foot boxcars in multiple BN and SP&S livery variations.

The Alco C424

Alco introduced the Century line in 1963 during North America’s diesel horsepower race. The C424 was designed to compete with Electro-Motive’s “Geep” series and General Electric’s U25B. Built at Alco’s Schenectady, New York plant from March 1963 to May 1967, it used the builder’s 251-series 16-cylinder, four-cycle power plant. Alco also built the similar C425, with an extra 100 horsepower.

A dozen original buyers in the United States, Canada and Mexico ordered 190 C424s. Alco subsidiary Montreal Locomotive Works built 92 for Canadian National and Canadian Pacific. Spokane, Portland & Seattle, a 920-mile railroad that favored Alco diesels, acquired seven in 1964, numbered SP&S 300–306.

When the SP&S became part of Burlington Northern in the 1970 merger of the “Hill Lines,” its C424s received BN road numbers 4240–4246 and the railroad’s Cascade Green colors. Burlington Northern operated the locomotives for about a decade, mostly in or near their original Pacific Northwest territory. They often helped power the joint Burlington Northern–Western Pacific “Inside Gateway” trains between the Pacific Northwest and Central California, and were seen on the Inside Gateway and the Western Pacific’s Feather River Canyon main line from Keddie to Oroville.

Scenarios and driving

The pack includes three Career scenarios for the Feather River Canyon Enhanced route, which is available separately:

• Down from Crescent
• Lumber & Box
• Up and Go!

The C-424 is also compatible with Quick Drive.