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<p>[quote user="DSchmitt"]</p> <div class="quote-header"> </div> <blockquote class="quote"> <div class="quote-user">ACY</div> <div class="quote-content"> <p>She's an Alco. RS's used AAR trucks, but these trucks are Blunt style, which means S-1 or S-2. The radiator looks to me like the short version, which would make her an S-1.</p> <p>Tom</p> <div style="clear:both;"> </div> <p> </p> </div> </blockquote> <div class="quote-footer"> </div> <p> </p> <p>From the photo, hard to tell about the radiator, but the stack looks like an S2 or S4 to me. I am not absolutly sure after looking at it again.</p> <div style="clear:both;"> </div> <p>[/quote]</p> <p>It is an S-2.  It has the exhaust stack of the S-2/S-4. The bell is not visible on top of the hood (the S-2s bell is located on the right hand or engineers side right behind the front or long hood side truck).  The trucks appear to be "Blunt trucks" (hard to tell).  The photo description says it was taken in 1950.  Alco did not start US production of the S-4 until August of that year (this is from wikipedia, so grain of salt here), making it unlikely that this is an S-4.  The photo is rather poor in quality so it is hard to tell.</p>
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