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Nostalgia & History > Conrail RS3'sDate: 02/19/18 11:18 Conrail RS3's Author: back_track_bob Don't have the date, location probably Syracuse and/or Binghamton NY..
BTB    Date: 02/19/18 11:21 Re: Conrail RS3's Author: train1275 Probably Syracuse or possibly Utica area. The 5325, 5326, 5546 and I think 5327 were regulars at those places circa 1977 / 1978.
Backgrounds look more like Syracuse area than Utica. Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 02/19/18 11:29 by train1275. Date: 02/19/18 11:24 Re: Conrail RS3's Author: MC6853 Wonder what happened to the hopper in #3?
Posted from Android Date: 02/19/18 12:05 Re: Conrail RS3's Author: nydepot The vent pipe in #1 is also on #2 but in #2, it has a radio wheel on it. I thought maybe a caboose behind the unit but it appears it's a hopper. I never saw an RS with the wagon wheel on it.
Date: 02/19/18 13:30 Re: Conrail RS3's Author: train1275 The vent pipe in photo #1 is the crank case exhauster. The 5546 is an ex - ERIE engine with the wagon wheel style radio antenna. That is the antenna you are looking at. The crank case exhauster was piped downward on those units instead of vertically upwards like on the PC 5325.
Date: 02/19/18 14:58 Re: Conrail RS3's Author: SamRae The crankcase exhauster, without the extension, tended to have the crankcase fumes blow back into the cab, making the engineer breath the fumes, all day. Extending it up so the exhaust would blow back over the cab roof made life much more pleasant in the cab.
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