We don’t know the name of the photographer who made this photograph. We do know it was created on July 22, 1973, and shows Erie Lackawanna 521, an Alco S2 with a Baldwin cab, working in Akron.
Collection of Robert Farkas
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EL Monday: Part Alco, Part Baldwin
May 9, 2022EL Monday: Alco Switcher With a Noted History
February 21, 2022
Erie Lackawanna Alco S2 No. 518 works in Marion on July 29, 1972. The former Erie switcher was built in November 1948. It would later work for Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company where it was given a U.S. bicentennial livery. It would then later join the motive roster of short line Ashtbula, Carson & Jefferson.
Photograph by Robert Farkas
Shuffling a C&O Business Car
January 8, 2022
In an unusual move, Baltimore & Ohio S2 switcher No. 9062 is removing Chesapeake & Ohio business car No. 2 from or adding it to the westbound Diplomat in Akron in the late 1960s. The business car would have been kept as long as it was in town on a set out track next to the platform at Akron Union Depot.
Photograph by Robert Farkas
Acquisition of Historic Locomotive Completed
November 3, 2021The Railroad & Industrial Preservation Society has completed its acquisition of the sole surviving former Lehigh & New England diesel locomotive.
The Society plans to restore the Alco S2 to operating condition. It carries roster number 611.
The unit last operated for an Indiana grain elevator and was moved to Pennsylvania in 2016.
It is now on the Allentown & Auburn Railroad. The Lehigh Valley Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society also assisted with the move of the 611.
The L&NE operated in eastern Pennsylvania and was abandoned 60 years ago. It once
coal, slate and cement producers.
The R&IPS said it is seeking to raise $150,000 to fund restoration of No. 611. More information is available at riptrack.org.
EL Monday: Double Dip of Switcher 507
October 4, 2021
These two photos of the Alco S2 switcher No. 507 were taken only a few years apart. In the top image, No. 507 is shown in Akron 1967 or 1968 still wearing its Erie markings. The bottom image shows the unit in Marion on July 29 1972.
Photographs by Robert Farkas
Alco S2s Around Every Corner
July 14, 2021
Marty Surdyk and I had a few more adventures before and after our ride and lunch stop last Sunday as we ventured to Titusville, Pennsylvania, to ride the Oil Creek & Titusville.
On a siding in Titusville were two Alco S2’s. For many years No. 75 was the passenger power for the OC&T.
Back in the 1980s we rode behind and photographed it on the New York & Lake Erie out of Gowanda, New York. It was formerly South Buffalo Railroad. No. 85 was used by the OC&T as standby power.
Erie S2 No. 518 was donated to the French Creek Valley Railroad Historical Society by the Ashtabula, Carson & Jefferson.
Prior to being on the AC&J roster it was owned by the Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company for use at its Ashtabula facility.
Before that it was used by Erie Lackawanna and the Erie. It is now on display in Meadville, Pennsylvania.
Article and Photographs by Edward Ribinskas
The Best I Could Do With It
May 26, 2021
The original slide from which this was taken was non-Kodak processed, underexposed, and had a strong purple color to it. Still, this may be of interest to some. Norfolk & Western Alco S2 switcher No. 105 (ex-Akron, Canton & Youngsrtown) is still in full AC&Y paint in Akron in December 1966 or January 1967.
Photograph by Robert Farkas
Alco Switcher Donated to W.Va. Roundhouse
March 17, 2021A former Baltimore & Ohio Alco S-2 switcher has been donated to the Berkeley County Roundhouse Authority in Martinsburg, West Virginia.
The authority is now seeking to raise money to pay to transport the engine from its current location in West Chester, Pennsylvania.
The switcher must be moved by truck rather than by rail at an estimated cost of $700,000.
Once it arrives in Martinsburg, the switcher will be displayed at the former B&O roundhouse there.
Built in 1949 as B&O 9115, the roundhouse authority plans to restore the unit to its as-built appearance.
The Martinsburg shops complex, which includes the roundhouse, has one of the last fully-enclosed roundhouses in existence, as well as the adjacent bridge and machine shop, frog and switch shop and blacksmith shop.
It was built between 1866 and 1872 and once included a second enclosed roundhouse that was destroyed by fire in 1990.
Contributions may be sent to the Berkeley County Roundhouse Authority, c/o Jeff Hollis, 56 Corning Way, Martinbsurg, WV 25405.
Steam Saturday: Viscose No. 6 on the AC&J
March 6, 2021
Here are some of my favorites of Viscose 0-4-4 saddletank No. 6 and Ashtabula, Carson & Jefferson No. 107 during the steam excursion event of Aug. 30 and 31, 2008.
No. 6 was built by Baldwin in September 1924 for the American Viscose Company of Roanoke, Virginia.
In 1960 it was sold to the Gem City Iron & Metal Company of Pulaski, Virginia. In September 2004 it was purchased my Scott Symans of Dunkirk, New York, and restored to operating condition.
AC&J 107 is an Alco S2 switcher built in June 1950 as Nickel Plate Road No. 45. It became Norfolk & Western No. 2045 after the 1964 merger of the NKP and N&W.
The Fairport, Painesville & Eastern purchased it in February 1968 and it became their No. 107. The AC&J acquired it in June 1984.
Photographs by Edward Ribinskas
EL Monday in Akron
August 10, 2020
We’ve got an Erie Lackawanna Alco S2 switcher for EL Monday today.
No. 518 is working with a train in Akron in 1968 in front of the passenger station.
McCoy Street Yard was a short distance out of sight to the left.
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