Alco Road Switchers - RS1, RS2, RS3, RSD4, RSD5, RS11, RS32, RS3
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One more for this run at the Erie Lackawanna. An RS3 has local in tow by the yard in Akron in June 1973. The 1036 was built for the Erie. We were fortunate that the EL stationed RS3's in Ohio for local duty during the last years. I hardly never saw a GP7 or GP9. I forget the story but it was unusual to see road power over by the engine house. I think there was an unplanned repair.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Lake State Railway 976 was a former Long Island Railroad high nose C420. The "homemade" low nose was added by the Detroit & Mackinac after they purchased the unit in 1976. The result was...less than attractive. However, it was still an Alco and would eventually be repainted into Lake State Railway's blue and white livery. Unfortunately, it suffered a fire and was scrapped in 2005, a few years before all Alcos would be purged from the LSRC roster. Coupled to 976 is 975, a former Boston & Maine RS-3 rebuilt by MK as a TE56-4A, better known as an RS3m. Both units still wore D&M paint at this late date. The location is Lake State's locomotive facility adjacent to the yard in Bay City, MI.
LSRC 976 C420 (ex-LI 208, DM 976)
LSRC 975 RS3m (ex-BM 1517 RS-3, DM 975 RS3m)
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.
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.
Seen high above the Little Schuylkill River valley, CNJ RS3 1554 pulls an excursion train over the high bridge at Hometown, Pennsylvania.
Three Alcos for three covered hoppers, with Kankakee Beaverville & Southern RS3m 308 (ex GB&W) leading RS11 324 (ex Cal Western/SP) and C420 315 (ex L&N) southbound on former Milwaukee Road (CTH&SE) rails approaching Webster IL, Jan 19 2001.
We'll go from orange leader on the 'sabber to orange leader at a more populated location, the beautiful hamlet of Cambridge, NY.
Last fall Mr. Twombly and I made out like bandits following a full round trip on the Battenkill. The southbound spent time playing with clouds but as usual with a ten mph train it was possible to find gaps. I think the next day was 2102 in the rain at Tamaqua Tunnel. In fact this was part of the epic 46 hour run I've brought up a couple times.
Also, this was the time they took a while to leave the banana and the six axle flat behind in the woods so I strolled up the street to an antique shop looking for lanterns. I walked out and the gates were already going down so I had to make an ass outta myself to get back in position for this shot. Worth it.