ACE 3000 Steam Locomotive

The ACE 3000 was an early 1980s proposal by American Coal Enterprises to develop a modern steam locomotive, with computerized controls allowing for much easier operations than the "classic" steam types, development of which had stopped three decades previously. The ACE 3000 configuration was to consist of a 4-8-2 main unit coupled to a support unit riding C-C trucks containing the water and containerized coal packs. Both units would have had control cabs.


Coal-fired steam locomotive Livio D. Porta et al

A magnficent brass ACE 3000 model