I am looking for information on the Talgo Trains of the 40's. I am doing a feature at Forgotten Delaware about the remaining American Car and Foundry (Jackson & Sharp) buildings, I will be featuring maps, old photos, and present day photos. I want to include information about the Talgo but I have had conflicting information about the Talgo's being built in Wilmington or Berwick.

Also any other Jackson and Sharp/ACF Wilmington information or photos anyone might want to contribute are welcome.

Thanks,

Tom

Forgotten Delaware
tom@forgottendelaware.com

There's a complete ACF Talgo train set preserved at the Spanish National Railway Museum in Madrid. I'll have to research at which ACF factory it was built.

denmeg_hogan@msn.com

They were built at Berwick. I have seen photos of the test runs on the DL&W's "Bloom" line and newspaper accounts of same.

K4s1361@hotmail.com

Yep, I do recall reading early test runs were made over the DL&W.
Where is Berwick, by the way?

> They were built at Berwick. I have seen
> photos of the test runs on the DL&W's
> "Bloom" line and newspaper
> accounts of same.


denmeg_hogan@msn.com

There's another ACF Talgo train set preserved at the Railway Museum in Villanueva Y Geltru, about 25 miles south of Barcelona, along the coast.

Museum of Transportation
rdgoldfede@aol.com

Berwick is in central Pennsylvania, not far from Interstate 80 and along the north branch of the Susquehanna River. Maybe 35 miles from Scranton. Much of the old industrial plant that was ACF is still intact as an industrial park, though largely vacant at this time. It is accessed by a short branch that climbs the river escarpment and then traverses a couple of blocks of street running. The plant was once served by the Lackawanna and the Pennsy, but the PRR's been gone since 1978. A local shortline, North Shore Railroad, provides service on the former Lackawanna line using EMD switchers painted in the E-L gray and maroon scheme. ACF left town in 1961, but did build railcars in a leased portion of the buildings in the early 90's. ACF also has a plant at Milton, PA, about 35 miles west of Berwick, that is purely 19th century -- dark, smoky, noisy. They build tank cars and covered hoppers.

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