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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.
In 2017 bestelde Arriva bij het Zwitserse Stadler 18 treinstellen van het nieuwe type WINK (Wandelbarer Innovativer Naverkers-Kurzzug) voor de nieuwe concessie in het noorden die loopt in de periode 2020-2035.
De eerste planning was dat de stellen per december 2020 ingezet gingen worden met de start van de nieuwe concessie, maar door het huidige crisis liep de aflevering en opleiding vertraging op. Hierdoor werd de startdatum verlegd naar 12 april 2021.
Vanaf die datum zijn de stellen ingestroomd en doen ze vanuit Leeuwarden dienst naar Sneek/Stavoren, Harlingen en op enkele ritten ook naar Groningen.
Op de zonovergoten zaterdag 17 april 2021 werd vroeg van huis vertrokken met een strakke planning om de nieuwkomers te fotograferen, als eerste op de lijn naar Stavoren.
Voor de tweede foto werd richting het gehucht Pikesyl gereden net ten zuidwesten van IJlst richting Workum. Daar hoefde niet lang gewacht te worden toen het stel eenmaal in zicht kwam.
Als RS3 37132 van Stavoren naar Leeuwarden passeert Arriva WINK 618 "Snitser Mar" de eenzame fotograaf bij Pikesyl als het stel verderop een stop gaat maken op het station van IJlst.
Datum: 17-4-2021 8:38.
Locatie: Pikedyk te Pikesyl.
Foto: © Ruben Schots.
A rainy April day finds a Jersey Central RS3 visiting one of its old haunts, pausing at the west end of Allentown Yard.
After a late start to the day, the Batten Kill finally gathered up their cars for the Pan Am interchange, and headed south for Eagle Bridge, with RS-3 4116 hauling the eleven empties without any issues. They're seen here framed by the Rexleigh covered bridge, a 1874 vintage Howe design. Due to the late start, the Batten Kill will only make it as far as Eagle Bridge on this night, and will run north the next morning.
Three C&NW RS3s roll west with train 495 at Eyota, Minn. on Dec. 11, 1976. Wait you say, that lead unit doesn't looks like an RS3! Indeed, No. 1613 was re-engined by Alco in March 1960 using a 251-engine and an RS11 style hood and was dubbed an "RS3M." One unit will be dropped in Rochester to use as a switcher, with the other two units taking train 495 on to Waseca.
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.
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.
A Sunday extra SC-7 splits the power at the Delaware-Lackawanna's South Scranton shops. The RS11s to the right are parts sources until GVT's CMO Don Colangelo decides they are worthy of a return to service. When I was a kid I saw the former W&W 351 in sand service in Virginia, while the former KB&S 324 I saw out in Illinois before GP38-3 rebuilds eliminated their small ALCO fleet. To the left is THE C636, looking mighty fine after a week in the shop getting electrical work done. Monday morning it'll lead PO-74 to the Delaware Water Gap with the three other serviceable "BIG ALCOs". Today's heritage trio is former Erie-Lackawanna C425 2452, Lehigh Valley C420 414, and Central of New Jersey RS3 1554, moving sand up the former Delaware & Hudson to Carbondale.
Western Maryland RS3 189 looks swell leading an F7A, GP7 and GP9 at the WM Bayard, West Virginia engine terminal as it shuffles power before returning back to Elkins on May 22, 1976.
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 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.
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.
Seen high above the Little Schuylkill River valley, CNJ RS3 1554 pulls an excursion train over the high bridge at Hometown, Pennsylvania.