Dash 9?

[M636C]

No,

At least, not as the same organisation! Montreal stopped building locomotives more than ten years ago, the last Canadian units being the VIA LRCs (I think).

Montreal was very successful in the export market, and many African countries still use MX series locomotives, from Morocco to Kenya and Uganda. A number of them are still used in Spain and Greece as well, but possibly not for much longer. There were a number of new locomotives built for Mexico and there were TWO units sold new to the Providence and Worcester (which used US-built Alco engines and GE electrical equipment, so they only had to import the bare shell as far as US Customs was concerned).

GE took over MLW and built the 84 Dash8 40CM units there between 1990 and 1996. Changes in trade laws meant they they no longer needed to build locomotives in Canada, and they closed the plant.

I'm not sure, but I think AMT now uses the facility for rebuilding EMD and DD-GM locomotives - can anyone confirm that?

[Anonymous]

Peter your right!

The LRC´s being the last MLW´s. And the plant is now Alsthom´s facility.

But you will see many Montreal built M420´s, former CN`s with the canadian style wide cab, now running on secondary lines.

[M636C]

As Ulrich has said, there are now a number of ex CN M420W units operating in the USA (as are some ex CN GP40s, some converted to passenger units for Boston suburban service). This reflects the effects of NAFTA. But MLW only sold the P&W units new in the USA, and even P&W bought new GE units later!

Peter