The RS1 was an Alco built Diesel produced between 1941 and 1953. This was one of the first ones purchased by the Rock Island Railroad and is on display at the Oklahoma Railroad Museum

Solite, a sand/aggregates plant in Sealston, Virginia, had this RS1 working at their quarry. The only identification, including in the number boards, was the word “Solite”. The Alco was formerly Washington Terminal 50, and now languishes at the Central New England.

A Black River & Western work train rolls into the siding at Flemington, New Jersey. RS1 57 began life on the Washington Terminal, and now languishes on the East Penn in Quakertown, Pennsylvania.

One of four RS1’s to appear on the Tioga Central Roster, Tioga Transportation Museum 59 came from the Washington Terminal. It was only around for a few years, ending up on the Southern Railroad of New Jersey.

Morristown & Erie RS1 number 15 is ready to go to work at the road’s engine house at Morristown, New Jersey. It looks like both the Alco and its house are in the middle of paint projects.

1945 Washington Terminal RS1 number 48 sits on a weed-grown siding at the Solite aggregates plant in Sealston, Virginia.

In a scene that looked much like it had since 1951, a green and yellow RS1 leads a train westbound over the trestle at Cuttingsville, Vermont. Originally the RS1’s belonged to the Rutland, but since the mid-1960’s, the Alcos travelling this route bore the name of Green Mountain Railroad. While one GMRC RS1 was a Rutland holdover, this one started life on the Illinois Terminal.

In Oberschwaben finden sich zahlreiche Bildstöcke entlang der Flure und Wege als Ausdruck der Voksfrömmigkeit. Zwischen Kißlegg und Wolfegg lässt sich die Regionalbahn perfekt ins Motiv einfassen.

The engineer of RS-1 heads into the cab of 3106 as he changes ends of his power consist in Silver Springs, NY before heading back North to Rochester on January 9, 2011.

SOO had a number of RS1's but most were gone in the 60's. A handful survived into the 70's with the last one being retired in June 1975. Paul Hunnell shot 353 at Stevens Point on April 4, 1972. It was retired and scrapped in June 1974. Chuck Schwesinger collection..

Amtrak's Ethan Allen Express arrives Middlebury, VT on its southbound journey to New York. The train is meeting GMRC 405 with a Trains Magazine photo special. Due to some poor planning, the special waited here for 2 hours for the on-time Amtrak train.

In August of 1992, we find Bay Colony Alco RS1 #1064 busy working the small yard in Millis, MA which serviced the GAF shingle factory, visible at right.

650 652 (VT 17) + 650 655 (VT 20) + 650 654 (VT 19) + 650 661 (VT 26) als WBA1 nach Bayerisch Eisenstein am 10.05.2014 auf der Ohebrücke bei Regen.

A Chicago & Western Indiana RS1 is heading into Dearborn Station at 14th St. in 1968.

Ann Arbor RS1 #21 rests in the shop in Owosso, Michigan following a shopping and re-paint on August 19, 1975

Hurbetusviadukt 17.10.2022

Am 17.10.2022 kämpft sich ein RS1 von Transdev über den Hurbetusviadukt bergabwärts durch den Herbstwald gen Buchholz.

R&S train RS-1 rumbles across the bridge over Spring Creek inside the Caledonia Fish Hatchery at Mumford, NY on September 18, 2010. The dog on the bank seems more interested in the train than in the guy wading in the creek.

Typical at the time is this dogs breakfast of power on Rochester & Southern train RS-1 as it works at Silver Springs, NY on January 9, 2011. BPRR 3000. G&W 50, BPRR 3101 & 3106 make up the set of power on this cold January day. The 3106, still in Kyle blue, will lead the Northbound train to Brooks Yard.

WRRX RS1 39-5310 is at Oak Ridge, Tennessee on April 2, 2020. WRRX rosters two rebuilt RS1s that originally came from the Savannah River Site Nuclear Reservation. When the DOE replaced the pair with a GP60 and B40-8 which were purchased new, the pair of RS1s migrated to K25, in modern terms, East Tennessee Technology Park at Oak Ridge.

A pair of WT Alco RS1's are doing their thing on a milky day in the nation's capitol. Amtrak 1454 was built from a US Army hospital car into a crew dorm, and eventually into an HEP car.

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Ricoh Rs1, Kodak Portra

Agera RS

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Blue seats?

Vermont Rail System's Trains Magazine Charter crosses the bridge at Cuttingsville on a sunny late-September afternoon in 2024. Leading the way up to Rutland was GMRC 405, an ALCO RS1 decked-out in Rutland Railroad decals for the event.

DUNOON Pier

RS1 on duty. Vacant yard space. Got Roundup? Wash DC. 1967.

The 14-mile-long salt hauling Genesee & Wyoming Railroad dieselized in the 1950’s with a small fleet of Alco RS1’s and S4’s. Later, a few secondhand RS1’s were added to the roster, including this 1948 New Haven alumnus. Otherwise, operations serving the huge salt mine continued as usual into the 1980’s. Change is in the air, however, with two new MP15’s in a different paint scheme with a new logo sitting out of sight beyond the 42. In two years, acquisition and expansion will begin, starting the metamorphosis from an obscure short line to a global industry leader.