New Haven RS-3 558 rests at Waterbury, CT, in the company of an Alco switcher as it awaits its next assignment. RS-3s dominated both road freight and local jobs out of Waterbury in the 1960s. The ... (more)
ex-SP&S 79 A Roger Puta Photograph
Missouri Pacific Alco RS-3 982, and MP GP7 235 at Lees Summit, Missouri in September 1964. No photographer's name on slide.
A sunny March day finds former Omaha Road RS-3, CNW 167, idling between chores on industrial trackage along the Mississippi River in Winona, MN. The CNW and highway bridges over the river are visi... (more)
A Roger Puta Photograph
New Haven was the maintenance base for many of Amtrak’s RS3’s. Here three of them idle in front of the former NYNH&H shops.
Delaware Lackawanna's Jersey Central RS-3 spent the day powering the Scranton Limited short excursion at Steamtown.
LV RS Allentown engine facility
Rio Grande Alco RS-3 5201 basks in the late afternoon sun at Denver’s Burnham roundhouse. One of five delivered to the road in the summer of 1951, by January, 1962, the 1600-hp road switcher can... (more)
LV 212 idles in Bethlehem engine terminal. This tired unit came to the LV from the Penn Central in 1972 as a trade for the original 212, an even more tired RS2. The PC, which controlled the LV, us... (more)
Note the turntable to the left.
RS-3M EMD. The MKT 142 still in use today for the Midland Railway in Baldwin City, KS. www.midlandrailway.org
From my slide collection by BILL NIXON.
Yeah, yeah, the weather's lousy in Peoria, so what's new? And that plastic surgeon, yes you should sue him for the nose job, but you know, you were no great beauty to start with!
The 28th St. bridge spanned service tracks that hosted commuter power. Today this is parking lots and the Busway at this spot.