Although only 6 Lehigh and Hudson River Alco C420 units were conveyed to Conrail, 3 of them survive today on the Arkansas and Missouri RR. One in particular, A&M 58, seems to have 9 lives. It started life as L&HR #29 and became property of Conrail 04-01-1976 and was renumbered to CR 2077. By 1980 it was off the roster, and the Delaware and Hudson picked it up for parts to keep their other C420's going. Apparently the Allentown shop folks had kept it in pretty good shape as the D&H decided it was good enough to use and renumbered it #401 (as seen here) and sent it out to earn it's keep. A good runner, it would survive into the Guilford era where yet another number and paint job would be applied, this time as #420 in the Guilford gray scheme. Guilford would retire it after a few years, but life wasn't over yet- the A&M would purchase it and it would run for a while down there still in the "G" scheme. Today this unit wears A&M red and often locks couplers with the other ex CR/L&HR C420's- long may she run!
