Ferrocarril de Langreo
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Ferrocarril de Langreo or FC de Langreo was a Spanish railway company which operated a standard gauge line, in the Autonomous Community of Asturias, in northern Spain. It was the third train constructed in Spain, at 1850 decade.
A private 50 km (31 mi) railway focused on Coal and Iron Ore from the mines of Laviana, Langreo... and the factory of La Felguera to Gijon, it was the only non-urban Spanish railway built to 1,435 mm (4 ft 8½ in) standard gauge, which often led it to look for second-hand rolling-stock, mainly from the United States. This included the purchase of:
- Four USATC S160 Class steam locomotives in 1959 from the Alaska Railroad[1][2]
- Talgo passenger coach sets built for the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad in 1964.[3]
- Four ALCO RS-3 diesel electric units in 1964, from the Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis. A fifth unit, numbered 1604, was purchased in 1971 from the Burlington Northern Railroad, a piece of surplus Great Northern Railway stock from the 1970 merger that formed the Burlington Northern.[4]
In 1973, the FC de Langreo was absorbed by FEVE, which rebuilt the Gijon-Laviana line to metre gauge in 1983.
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