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Returned to Chessie by the Gettysburg railway after GETY acquired its own power, Western Maryland RS3’s 189, 186, and 198 have been set aside at the B&O shops in Cumberland, Maryland.
A rainy April day finds a Jersey Central RS3 visiting one of its old haunts, pausing at the west end of Allentown Yard.
The line up this morning showed Erie Lackawanna hotshot piggyback PB100 with E8's 831, 809, 817 and 826 arriving at 09:30. It was pretty close as distant RS3's worked the yard, unfortunately the E's came off and power was changed. Looking back along the train one can see the white ballast where the mainline has been leveled and raised. These units are however tip-towing through some sketchy trackage as the units twist side to side on uneven settled rails. This was the very busy EL in Marion, Ohio on March 6, 1976, with roughly a month before disappearing as part of Conrail.
BNSF 1663 sports a bright new orange and black scheme which was pretty bummer inducing as the last time I laid eyes on it was my favorite Cascade Green 40, I had seen. Stripped of its BN RS3 and character, the E-Bell and sharp K3 ring away as they blow the socks off an old GN signal on their way to work in Cloquet, Minnesota.
In the fall of 1981, friends Tom Seiler, Denny Nehrenz, and I took a week long trip to New England and did some neat stuff in Maine on the MEC. But on the way home we spent a day on the Lamoille Valley. Denny and I had tried to do them on a spring trip but had pretty lousy weather. We were mostly having the same in the fall except for this one spot at Sheldon Jct on the way back from St Albans. I was so excited that the sun came out for the farther across-the-field coming shot (www.flickr.com/photos/crr200/8584847034/in/photolist-e5Bz...) that when it stayed out for the broadside, the motor drive had left only one shot in the camera. And it wasn't even a whole frame of film. But a little digital cropping salvaged it. And now you know the rest of the story. Glad I don't have to think about that anymore.
Nevada Northern RS3 109 passes one of the many original Nevada Northern buildings in Ely, NV back in 2008. A trip to this museum is like a trip back in time, as almost all the equipment is original to this operation.
Probably the understatement of the century, Erie Western RS3 1602 gives visual proof. I guess the ERES didn't have enough time to correct their mistake and repaint these old warriors. Short lived, but it was a great show while it lasted. Here's the 1602 at Griffith, IN.
After serving the Black River & Western for a decade, former Jersey Central RS3 1554 was acquired by the Hawk Mountain Chapter, NRHS and restored to its original appearance. The RS3 spent some time on the Blue Mountains & Reading, as seen here at Temple, Pennsylvania.
The Adirondack railway operated passenger service from Utica to Lake Placid, New York between 1979 and 1981. The Adirondack served the Lake Placid Winter Olympic Games (remember the Miracle on Ice?) and was the biggest alternative to automobile/bus transportation to the games. After the Susquehanna acquired what became its Northern Division, it purchased former Adirondack RS-3 29. Here it is, with NYS&W lettering on the cab, but still displaying its Adirondack roots through a weak patch job on the long hood
Many photos of Jersey Central RS3 1554 have appeared on this site as it serves the Delaware-Lackawanna. Here the 1953 Alco is in its original paint on the rails of new owner Black River and Western. A few months after this photo, the 1554 will be repainted in the CNJ “Red Baron” scheme, although I don’t think it was still a CNJ asset. After wearing two BR&W schemes, the RS3 will be acquired by the Hawk Mountain Chapter, NRHS, and returned to its original scheme in 1985.
Most of Western Maryland’s RS3’s were retired by 1976, but four were leased by the Gettysburg Railroad when it was formed to operate the line from Gettysburg to Mount Holly Springs, Pennsylvania. After the new short line acquired its own power, the four Alcos were returned, and placed in storage at the B&O shops in Cumberland, Maryland, as seen here. This particular unit escaped the torch when it was donated to the B&O Museum in 1979.
After the Delaware & Hudson’s expansion as a result of the Conrail merger, the D&H was short of power, and looked in all directions for additional locomotives. One solution came in the form of a group of ex-Long Island high hood C420’s that had outlived their lease to the LIRR. Although they were patched as D&H assets, I don’t believe that they were around for very long. Here two of them are sandwiched between an ex-LV C420 and an M-K RS3 rebuild on a northbound train (westbound on this line) departing Allentown, Pennsylvania.
After shooting the San Manuel Arizona road train with the RS3 near Hayden, I gave chase and was able to bag this shot of the train on the trestle at Mammoth. I thought I was hot stuff with this until I saw JJL's Flicker shot taken three years earlier with two RS3s on this bridge!
News came this week that Magma Copper/San Manuel Arizona RS3 No. 3 is being preserved at the Arizona Railway Museum in Williams. RS3s were primarily used on mine runs in SMA service, and occasionally on the road train up to the connection with SP/Copper Basin in Hayden to San Manuel.
I was lucky on May 10, 1989 when RS3 No. 13 lead the road train south, seen here leaving Hayden. Interestingly this RS3 is still around too, stored at the Nevada Northern Railway Museum in Ely.
The Lackawanna’s electrified commuter territory in Northern New Jersey was not the exclusive domain of electrified MU cars. Locomotive-hauled trains reach many points located beyond the farthest reach of the catenary. Steam power for these trains gave way to E8’s, GP7/9’s and RS3’s. In the early 1970’s, new trainsets with GE U34CH power displaced the earlier technology. Here one of those trainsets enters Hoboken Terminal.
VLIX RS3 512 is in the dead line at Oak Ridge, Tennessee on April 2, 2020. The unit was built for the Reading Railroad July 1952.
Olgebay-Norton Alco’s stand in the rain at the company’s Ashland, Kentucky yard. RS3 512 began life as Reading 495, and is now part of the Vintage Locomotives, Inc. collection in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. I haven’t found the origin or disposition of S2 511.