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In this new book of the
work DIESEL LOCOMOTIVES we treat the
 characteristics
and the offers presented to that we name
Renfe's Diesel The Third Contest of Locomotives. In this
contest finally Renfe decided to
acquire in a massive way the locomotives diesel necessary to
confront the changes in the traction to steam that still they were
hanging. The foreseen endowment was 120 locomotives diesel. In the
resolution of the contest there turned out to be winning the
American companies ALCO and for the
first time, General Motors with 60 units each one. Of
ALCO the series was born 2100,
continuing of the series 1600 and 1800. Of General Motors the series
was born 1900, a few locomotives derived from those of the mythical
model F of the United States who with variants was constructed
under license in Australia and in Europe adopting the aerodynamic
aesthetics or original "Streamlined".
In spite of offering
the same type of locomotive, Renfe
prefer to adopt a variant of a model of
exportation, type G-16 monocabin but with two cabins, which were
still the aesthetic model of the ALCO 2100.
1900 of
Renfe they were installed in
València, location in which new
facilities and workshops were enabled.
València's endowment was busy with replacing the steam
locomotives of the former lines of the company of the North (Almansa-València-Tarragona,
Tarragona to Lleida, Saragossa to
Lleida and Manresa, Saragossa to
Elevated place of Ebro and Pamplona) and of the Head office of
Aragon (València to Saragossa),
besides other lines of the former MZA
(line of Madrid to Alcazar, Albacete,
Alacant, Murcia, Cartagena, etc).
With the
advance of the electrifications the series continued distributing
for other lines but every time to realize services of load and
auxiliary. In the year 1992 the last units of the series stopped
giving service and some of them were reformed taking advantage of
some of his elements to form a part of the "new" series 319, but
this already is another history that we will report in another
future book of the collection.
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