For this week’s Erie Lackawanna Monday we’re going to go with a rather colorful Alco RS3 sitting near the engine house in Akron on Jan. 21. 1973. Obviously old man winter got here before us.
Posts Tagged ‘Alco RS-3’
Some Color for an EL Monday
June 22, 2020Leaving the Kent Yard
February 17, 2018Railroading as it Once Was: CR Rarity
January 11, 2017Certainly one of the rarer units on Conrail, this former Lehigh Valley Alco RS-3 with a high short hood rests at the Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, engine service facility in October 1977. Built for the Pennsylvania Railroad with a steam generator in that tall hood, it went to the LV as its 211. It would be the only unit of its kind on both the LV and CR roster, and would even retain this car body after it’s conversion in the RS-3 mod program. I believe this unit survives today, although with an EMD prime mover.
Article and Photograph by Roger Durfee
Railroading as it Once Was: Some Strange Bedfellows Showed up in Early Conrail Days
August 18, 2016There were some strange bedfellows in Conrail’s first year or two as the newly merged railroad was leasing anything it could beg, borrow, or even steal for a day or two.
In this August 1976 example we see a former Erie Lackawanna caboose being moved by a former Spokane, Portland, and Seattle Alco RS-3 (renumbered as BN 4065) at Brier Hill Yard, a former EL facility, in Youngstown.
West Coast meets East Coast in the shadow of the YS&T steel mill. In a few short years, Conrail would get its act together and these SP&S/BN units would make their way back to Washington State.