Alco Road Switchers - RS1, RS2, RS3, RSD4, RSD5, RS11, RS32, RS3
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I don't know about you, but I can't get enough of this 70 yr old Alco RS1 hauling revenue freight. So here is another....despite the less than perfect skies I'm sure glad I went!
Due to the normally assigned GMTX geep being down for maintenance the Vermont Railway pressed their ancient Green Mountain Railroad Alco RS1 into freight service on the Bellows Falls switcher all this week. Normally this unit only sees service on the VRS' passenger excursion trains and perhaps use on revenue freights once or twice a year at most. So this week was exceptional, and I'm hard pressed to think of anywhere else in the country an RS1 is used to haul freight anymore.
What is even more special is that this unit is very much on home rails having been built for the Rutland in November 1951. So that means she is approaching her 70th birthday in a few months and has never left the Green Mountain state!
Here she is westbound pulling into Riverside Yard approaching Riverside Road at MP B2.5 on modern day VRS' Falls Running Track of the Bellows Falls Subdivision which is the original Rutland Railway Green Mountain mainline.
Rockingham, Vermont
Friday June 11, 2021
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..
An Alco RS1 pulling revenue freight in 2021? What's more on target than that?!
After VTR 263's crew turned back west toward Rutland with 264 the DASW job got right back to work at Riverside. Here they are spotting up the Dead River Propane racks in this view looking east from Riverside Road at MP B2.3 on modern day VRS' Falls Running Track of the Bellows Falls Subdivision which is the original Rutland Railway Green Mountain mainline.
Due to the normally assigned GMTX geep being down for maintenance the Vermont Railway pressed their ancient Green Mountain Railroad Alco RS1 into freight service on the Bellows Falls switcher all this week. Normally this unit only sees service on the VRS' passenger excursion trains and perhaps use on revenue freights once or twice a year at most. So this week was exceptional, and I'm hard pressed to think of anywhere else in the country an RS1 is used to haul freight anymore.
What is even more special is that this unit is very much on home rails having been built for the Rutland in November 1951. So that means she is approaching her 70th birthday in a few months and has never left the Green Mountain state!
Rockingham, Vermont
Friday June 11, 2021
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.
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.
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.
7-30-1978
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.
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.