Nostalgia & History > Alco Road Switchers (RS-1, -2, and -3) -- Rick Burn

1. Chicago & Western Indiana RS-1 260 in Chicago, IL. (date missing)

2. Consumers Power 401 (RS-1, ex-Rutland) at Bay City, MI in October 1990.

3. EJ&E RS-2 808 near NYC MS Tower, Whiting, IN in February 1963.


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4. MONON RS-2 56, Hammond, IN in Dcember 1965.

5. Northern Pacific RS-3 861, Duluth, MN in September 1962.

6. Toledo Peoria & Western RS-3 207 at U.S. 24 Crossing in East Peoria, IL in June 1968.


En joy,
Marty Bernard



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/22/18 20:36 by MartyBernard.

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Marty,  Is/was there a Pic-Number Four here that you missed?

James R.(Jim) Baker
Whittier, CA

Fixed it.   Marty

Who's Baldwin is that making friends with the Monon RS-2?

I am in Poland right now and have seen a number of ex rsd1 locos hauling various freight and coal trains near krakow will,post some videos when I return home in a few weeks I think they were ex Russian locos or meant to be used in russia

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Great set of photos and a special thank you for the J picture in Whiting, Indiana.
Anything at or near MS Tower is priceless to me, as my first railroad job was 
there as an operator 50 years ago.
 
Note the crossing has only a crossbuck; 10 or 11 tracks crossed 117th Street
near MS and there were no automatic gates nor flashers until about 1967.
Just a few feet to the right, out of the picture, was a gateman's shanty.

Note also the third J track, along the Whiting Park wall.  Soon after it crossed
117th Street behind Rick Burn, it disappeared into the beach sand.  Years ago
I recall seeing some of it further west along Lake MIchigan, and possibly it
went all the way to the Hammond Water Filtration Plant.