The MLW RS-18 was an 1800 hp (1340 kW) diesel-electric locomotive built by Montreal Locomotive Works between December 1956 and August 1968. It replaced the RS-10 in MLW’s catalogue and production totalled 351 locomotives to eight customers. It was the Canadian version of the ALCO RS-11 although MLW did manufacture the RS-11 for Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México.Canadian National Railway by far the largest buyer of the RS-18 continued to specify the long hood as the front.
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