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What locomotive is this?
Posted by cat992c on Monday, September 26, 2011 1:16 PM

Found this @ Heritage Cooperative in  Mechanicsburg,Ohio this past Friday

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Posted by silicon212 on Monday, September 26, 2011 9:29 PM

That's a good question.  It might get a good answer if we could see a picture of it.

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Posted by mudchicken on Thursday, September 29, 2011 7:25 PM

details,details.....

There used to be an old Alco S-1 with Blount trucks still labelled for Champaign (IL) Landmark Grain Elevator there....could be anything in Relco's lease fleet there by now.

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Posted by cat992c on Monday, October 3, 2011 4:26 PM

I am talking about the picture to the left in my profile

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Posted by Andrew Falconer on Monday, October 3, 2011 10:28 PM

It looks like the ALCo S-1 to S-4.

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Posted by Stourbridge Lion on Monday, October 3, 2011 10:45 PM

I agree with Andrew, something in the "S" Class from ALCo such as this one

 

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Posted by CSSHEGEWISCH on Tuesday, October 4, 2011 10:01 AM

Judging by the Blunt trucks, the locomotive in question is an S1 or S2.

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Posted by edbenton on Tuesday, October 4, 2011 4:40 PM

S2 looks to be Turbocharged an S1 would have a Straight Round Stack on it not an Angled stack on it. 

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Posted by Stourbridge Lion on Tuesday, October 4, 2011 5:13 PM

Man, how do you see so much detail in such a small image?

 

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Posted by big steve on Saturday, November 12, 2011 4:29 PM

It is an S-2, note the full size radiator shutters, the S-1 would have shutters about half the size.

 

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Posted by samfp1943 on Sunday, November 13, 2011 8:37 AM

mudchicken

details,details.....

There used to be an old Alco S-1 with Blount trucks still labelled for Champaign (IL) Landmark Grain Elevator there....could be anything in Relco's lease fleet there by now.

I believe I would  go along with Mudchicken on this one!  His instincts seem to be pretty correct..

Stourbridge Lion replied on 10-03-2011 10:45 PM Reply More

I agree with Andrew, something in the "S" Class from ALCo such as this one

 

http://www.trainweb.org/dhvm/images/dhrr_diesel/ALCO_S-2/UNKNOWN/3023-1.jpg

Seems like Mudchicken had it spotted correctly, and Stourbridge Lion (darren) nailed it!

 

 

 


 

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