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Date: 11/17/14 09:02
MLW/ALCO Monday, that Ugly RS-3
Author: tsokolan

From my collection, photographer unknown. Montreal PQ March 24 1982

-Trevor

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Date: 11/17/14 09:08
Re: MLW/ALCO Monday, that Ugly RS-3
Author: kgmontreal

Even more tragic is that CP did more than one like that. At one point the St Luc hump set was a pair of them. Oh, the shame!

KG

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Date: 11/17/14 14:37
Re: MLW/ALCO Monday, that Ugly RS-3
Author: mcfflyer

How...just how could they do that? Lordy, that is just simply butt ugly.

Just sayin'.

Lee Hower - Sacramento

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Date: 11/17/14 16:52
Re: MLW/ALCO Monday, that Ugly RS-3
Author: eminence_grise

Interesting sub lettering under the number, "pulldown", probably to distinguish it from a "hump" locomotive which had slow speed controls and cab signals.

Big hump yards had distinct yard assignments such as "hump", "trimmer" and "pulldown" performing distinct tasks related to the hump yard.

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Date: 11/17/14 19:56
Re: MLW/ALCO Monday, that Ugly RS-3
Author: LKeithR

Aawww.....I think it's kinda cute....ya know, sorta like a studebaker...

Keith Robertson
Langley, BC

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Date: 11/17/14 20:51
Re: MLW/ALCO Monday, that Ugly RS-3
Author: thehighwayman

Didn't one of these wind up at Crown Zellerbach in Ladysmith ... and then go to the Alberni Pacific in Port Alberni?

Will MacKenzie
Dundas, ON

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Date: 11/17/14 21:51
Re: MLW/ALCO Monday, that Ugly RS-3
Author: rschonfelder

thehighwayman Wrote:
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> Didn't one of these wind up at Crown Zellerbach in
> Ladysmith ... and then go to the Alberni Pacific
> in Port Alberni?


I believe CZ did their own thing to their own RS-3; maybe even before CP. Can anyone confirm this?

Rick

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Date: 11/20/14 10:58
Re: MLW/ALCO Monday, that Ugly RS-3
Author: DrLoco

Excellent view for the engineer on the pulldowns, for sure!

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Date: 11/21/14 12:56
Re: MLW/ALCO Monday, that Ugly RS-3
Author: eminence_grise

rschonfelder Wrote:
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> >
> I believe CZ did their own thing to their own
> RS-3; maybe even before CP. Can anyone confirm
> this?
>
> Rick


Ex. CP 8427, built March 1953, acquired by Crown Forest Products, 1986 already rebuilt.

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