Western Railroad Discussion > Milwaukee Road RS1, RS3 and RSD5 Locomotives

I am working on painting a group of Alco Road Switchers into the Milwaukee's orange and black scheme. A few pictures would be appreciated.

St Paul, MN 6/75

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Nice pics! When were the RSD's retired/scrapped? 1980/81?

The color separation on MILW road switchers was set by the height of the bottom of the windows on the ends of the cabs. That is consistant across all makers and models the MILW had. Good luck, we need more MILW models running now.

1st photo, 579, is one of the rare RSC-2's, this one especially rare
as nose was rebuilt (I think by alco) with later RS-32 style low nose.

There were only 70 RSC-2's built, of which I know of only 2 (I think)

that were rebiult with the RS-32 nose.

pdt

fbe Wrote:
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> The color separation on MILW road switchers was
> set by the height of the bottom of the windows on
> the ends of the cabs. That is consistant across
> all makers and models the MILW had. Good luck, we
> need more MILW models running now.


Thanks, fbe, for pointing that out. I had always thought it was 48 inches, which seems to work right on the GP9's and VO-1000's I've modelled, and appears also to be correct on the box cabs. But these pix sure show it to be a narrower band on the Alco's.

I don't think I ever actually saw any of the Milwaukees Alco's in service in the Twin Cities - this was Baldwin country - but photos show they were well employed on the 60 lb rail of southern Minnesota. E-21's pix seem to be of the Alco's and Baldwin 911 on the deadline at Pig's Eye.

MTMEngineer Wrote:
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> I don't think I ever actually saw any of the
> Milwaukees Alco's in service in the Twin Cities -
> this was Baldwin country - but photos show they
> were well employed on the 60 lb rail of southern
> Minnesota. E-21's pix seem to be of the Alco's and
> Baldwin 911 on the deadline at Pig's Eye.

MTM is correct as to where I found this collection of interesting equipment. Baldwins and FM's were there as well.

E-21 Wrote:
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> MTM is correct as to where I found this collection
> of interesting equipment. Baldwins and FM's were
> there as well.
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I LOVE orange and black. Ya got any more????

This 1945 Alco ad may help you with the RS-1 paint scheme.

JMW

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MTMEngineer Wrote:
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> E-21 Wrote:
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> > MTM is correct as to where I found this
> collection
> > of interesting equipment. Baldwins and FM's
> were
> > there as well.
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> I LOVE orange and black. Ya got any more????
>
A Baldwin

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A Fairbanks Morse.

PS, that Alco ad looks more like a UP paint scheme to me than a Milwaukee scheme.

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E-21 Wrote:
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> PS, that Alco ad looks more like a UP paint scheme
> to me than a Milwaukee scheme.

The paint diagram was the same, but, of course, the colors were different:

Orange instead of yellow

Maroon striping instead of red

And I believe the gray might've been lighter than Harbor Mist, but I'm not sure.

E-21 Wrote:
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> MTMEngineer Wrote:
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> > I LOVE orange and black. Ya got any
> more????
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> A Baldwin
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Is that the 925 behind the 922? 925 was the very first engine I ever rode.

Thanks for all the help.