The locomotives diesel
for long services had an impulse and an implantation almost
 definitive
in the 40s and 50 in the railroads of the United States. The one
that at the time was a new technology re-turned the railway American
system of exploitation. Even, the locomotives diesel – American
electricity companies were a political instrument that were
indicating the economic and military level of the USA and his areas
of influence in the epoch of the cold war.
The technology of the
locomotive diesel came to the Spanish railroads in the 50s, as to
many European countries. The principal problem was to finance the
purchase and construction under license of this new type of
technology. These years, the massive construction of steam
locomotives still was allowing to have a relatively new park of
traction. In addition, the politics of renovation in the network of
broad route was orientated in the electrification of the principal
lines and to replace structural deficiencies in general. The arrival
of the first locomotives diesel American and French to
RENFE created the situation of which
RENFE chose for the Americans of
direct import and the Department of Public Works, in his plans for
narrow gauge, chose for French locomotives constructed in Spain.
RENFE's option for locomotives
acquired diesel of line Americans was the same that that of other
countries without aptitude to construct them. The Americans in
addition were offering financial helps for his acquisition, unlike
the Frenchmen.
First diesel of line in
RENFE, the series of
ALCO 1600 and 1800 opened a new style
of explotation
in the network
but only they opened the door the massive
dieselización that took place in the
PDM in 1964.
The previous studies,
the French prototypes and the slight trains proceeding from the USA
(TALGO II) realize of
RENFE's intentions to adapt to the
new railway currents, more of the USA that to the European zone,
fruit of two policies proceeding from the neutrality in the World
War II that allowed the development of the Swiss and different
industry fruit of a politics of competition to offset the American
dependence in Europe after the World War II.
The locomotives 318 and
316 initiated an epoch that continued with other acquisitions
America as the 313, 321, 308 and 319. |
