Alco Road Switchers - RS1, RS2, RS3, RSD4, RSD5, RS11, RS32, RS3
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A patched CR RS2 in LV paint is working at Meadows Yard. This unit was originally LV 214. Some Tropicana cars off of the Juice train are on the right.
1-1-1978
The Ann Arbor RR - Michigan Interstate - Ann Arbor turn is passing the south signal at Milan, Michigan with RS2 303 doing the work this day - March 29, 1984.
A Michigan Interstate - Ann Arbor railroad freight is seen southbound, just south of Cohoctah, Michigan behind former Green Bay & Western RS2's 303 & 301 in September, 1981.
Michigan Interstate RS2s 301 and 301 are southbound with a short train on the Ann Arbor at Cohoctah, MI, on 5/16/1980. Michigan Interstate was the designated operator of the Ann Arbor RR at the time, and purchased these RS2s from Green Bay & Western in 1976-1977 to supplement the AA’s fleet of worn Alcos and GP35s. Relations with the Interstate and the state of Michigan would eventually go south, and the state would revoke their operating rights for everything north of the city of Ann Arbor in 1983. Michigan Interstate adopted the Ann Arbor Railroad name, and continued to operate Ann Arbor to Toledo, OH, for the next 3 decades. A scanned slide from my collection, originally taken by B Carlson.
My first encounter with the Detroit & Mackinac was at Tawas City, MI back in September of 1979. I found the RS2 469 switching out the business train, a matching set in beautiful Pullman green. The all Alco short line instantly made my Michigan journey a great one, as I shot the D&M in several Michigan locales.
Fort Wayne Jct was a awesome place to catch trains .It was very busy place.Were here wating to catch Amtrak E-units but a former Penn Central RS-2 will do fine.He's pulling its train over to the Santa Fe Chinatown car wash for cleaning
The Octoraro Railway ran an excursion over the former Reading Wilmington & Northern branch from Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania to Montchanin, Delaware and return. Once back in Chadds Ford, the mixed train traversed the connection to the former PRR Octoraro branch, and travelled the remaining length of the branch to the state line at Sylmar, Maryland, then returning to Chadds Ford. Here the power, two RS2’s from the Toledo, Peoria, & Western, has cut off from the train and enters a siding in Oxford, Pennsylvania. Talking to a crewman on the pilot is trip organizer Kermit Geary, Jr. (blue shirt).
Elgin, Joliet and Eastern RS2 802 idles at Gary, Indiana, on October 14, 1967.
Owen Leander photo, Joe Lewnard collection.
Gathered around the former Pere Marquette turntable in Saginaw are Lake State Railway C425M-AC #181, C425M #281, GP38M #371, RS3M #974, and RS2 #469. The Alco era on the LSRC had ended only a few days before my visit with the final retirement of C425M-AC #1280. Unfortunately, the #181, #281, #974, and all of the other Alcos still on the property (other than the #469) would be scrapped later that year. #371 would languish here for a few more years before being shipped to Metro East Industries for conversion into a road slug. Today it is LSRC #303.
Here is a rare Alco RS2 lensed near Rogers City, MI on 04-27-1979 at the Michigan Limestone Division of U.S. Steel Corp. We photographed several other Alco's that day.
STROBIST - NIKON SB-28 at 1/32 power, to left of frame. Fired by pocket wizards and through an umbrella.
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Caramulo Motorfestival 2019.
This concludes the set of photos from the festival, of course i have much much more but this is what i can show for now.
One of the most iconic sports estates ever, and Audi's first "RS" model.
Personally it's not my most liked Audi model but it has a place in my heart as the stepping stone to two of my all time favourite cars, the '99 RS4 & '02 RS6.