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Alco Locomotives
Posted by southernalco on Wednesday, April 13, 2022 9:56 AM

Does anyone have photos of the Alco factory paint scheme for the  RSD4 or RSD5?

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Posted by Backshop on Wednesday, April 13, 2022 10:38 AM

Here's a B&W photo.  It looks like it could just be unlettered Santa Fe.

1606FM.JPG (701×542) (calclassic.com)

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Posted by rixflix on Wednesday, April 13, 2022 1:27 PM

Might be a combined Alco-GE logo on the cab side. Looks like the Alco script over GE round logos. Demonstrating?

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Posted by Overmod on Wednesday, April 13, 2022 7:05 PM

rixflix
Might be a combined Alco-GE logo on the cab side. Looks like the Alco script over GE round logos. Demonstrating?

That's exactly what is there... but I'm used to seeing the Alco script and GE logo overlapping.  Here they are very separate.  I suspect this would help date this.

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Posted by rixflix on Wednesday, April 13, 2022 8:03 PM

A premonition? "Down-doobee-do-down-down, breaking up is hard to do". But there's your factory paint.

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Posted by Paul of Covington on Wednesday, April 13, 2022 8:45 PM

   What's with all that steam?

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Posted by rixflix on Thursday, April 14, 2022 12:20 PM

Judging by the Milwaukee Erie-built in the photo and that the road rostered six of the Alco RSD5 model, they might have bought this one and hadn't painted it yet.

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Posted by Backshop on Thursday, April 14, 2022 2:36 PM

Demo 1606 was bought by the Santa Fe.

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