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  1. Under the hood

    Under the hood

    Inside the forward end of the 529 are visible... main air compressor at right with engine air intake filters above and turbocharger intake pipe, turbocharger at top center with intake air conduit, the large pipe curving down from the turbo and back to the prime mover, exhaust manifold pipes...
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    • alco rs-3
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  2. Under the hood

    Under the hood

    The 529's 12 cylinder 244 prime mover with crankcase inspection covers removed.
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  3. Under the hood

    Under the hood

    A slightly closer view of NH 529 with all the side doors open for inspection.
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  4. Under the hood

    Under the hood

    The Railroad Museum of New England's New Haven RS-3 with "her pants down" at the museum's Chase yard in Waterville, CT.
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  5. LV 414

    LV 414

    Restored C420 on the SRNJ coupled up to CNJ painted F7B.
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  6. Heritage scheme?

    Heritage scheme?

    Southern RR of NJ owner likes the NYO&W, here is one of their M420s shortly after painting!
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  7. End of the line

    End of the line

    West Chester weekend passenger train waits to head back to West Chester
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    • Category: Special Trains, Charters and PV's
  8. FCA 6118

    FCA 6118

    A close on the cab and front truck of FCA 6118. The unit is a Alco/Bombardier MX620 and still using old RFFSA painting. This is really a rare view!
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    • alco bombardier brazil fca mx620
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    • Category: International Locomotives and Rolling Stock
  9. FCA 6131 and 6132

    FCA 6131 and 6132

    FCA 6131 and 6132 crossing a road near Sete Lagoas car shops.
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  10. Southern Pacific Alco switcher #1210

    Southern Pacific Alco switcher #1210

    Southern Pacific Alco switcher #1210 at an unknown location. Photographer unknown, Brian Sopke collection. Date is probably around the late 1960's as some of the other photos in the group were of GN Sky blue boxcars.
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    • 1210 alco pacific southern switcher
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    • Category: Vintage Freight Train Photos - Diesel Era
  11. Goat Meets Goat

    Goat Meets Goat

    The San Francisco Belt Railroad employs two kinds of goats. One for kicking cars, the other kind for eating the weeds between the rails. They operate a waste transloading operation out of one of the piers and have a small yard on the southeast side of town. Built for the railroad in 1946, Alco...
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    • alco city francisco san south switcher
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  12. Survivor

    Survivor

    "Big Al" prods the Railroad Museum of New England's ex New Haven RS-3 529 in a runby at Jericho bridge on Sept. 9, 2001. The 529 worked for Amtrak as it's #138 before "coming home" to the RMNE's Naugatuck RR. Photographic records show that the 529 actually worked on the...
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  13. Survivor

    Survivor

    The Railroad Museum of New England's "baby" makes a spirited runby across Jericho bridge in Thomaston, CT. on Sept. 9, 2001 during one of the RMNE's Railfan's Days. Built in August, 1950, the 529 is the sole survivor of a group of 45 (517-561) Alco RS-3's owned by the New Haven Railroad.
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  14. Lumbering along the D-L main

    Lumbering along the D-L main

    Vintage Alco leads a short lumber train up the mountain at Analomink PA.
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    • alco analomink delaware-lackawanna rs32
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    • Category: Eastern United States
  15. On the pocono main

    On the pocono main

    Delaware Lackawanna RS32 at Analomink, PA
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  16. Living Dinosaur

    Living Dinosaur

    LB Railco, a waste hauler based out of the Port of San Francisco, owns two Alco S-2 switchers for shuttling cars around their facility. #25 is seen working today to make up a train for the outbound South City Switcher, the daily UP job that serves industries in San Francisco. The power for the...
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    • Category: Industrial and critters
  17. Old Warrior

    Old Warrior

    Alco C-636 Born as SP&S 330 in December 1967. It was renumbered in the BN merger as 4360. Purchased in the declining years of Alco production the 3600 HP unit was not a popular item with BN's mechanical department & was retired in Nov. 1980. Railfans loved them & it was a sad day...
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  18. An emasculated Alco rests between grain loading assignments.

    An emasculated Alco rests between grain loading assignments.

    One of several repowered Alco switchers in northwest Ohio, this one was at the Farmers Commission Company elevator at Kenton.
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  19. SP Mikado 794

    SP Mikado 794

    SP 794, sister of Austin Steam Train's 786 at Sunset Station in San Antonio...the siding she's on is still concted to the main (with some asphalt over it)!
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    • 2-8-2 alco mikado sp
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  20. Alcos in the Rain

    Alcos in the Rain

    A trio of Delaware-Lackawanna Alcos sit in the rain in Scranton.
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    • Category: Eastern United States


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