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Any ALCO RSC-2's still in service?

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Posted by cprted on Friday, May 2, 2008 12:11 PM
 Boomer Red wrote:

          There is a restored former Pacific Great Eastern unit in British Columbia but I don't know if it runs.

RSC-3 PGE 561 is at the West Coast Railway Museum in Squamish, BC (home to the Royal Hudson 2860), and--to the best of my knowledge--is in running order.

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, May 1, 2008 10:02 PM
The Danbury Railroad Museum in Connecticut has one stored, I think it's a former NewHope&Ivyland unit. No plans to get it running, but it's in pretty good shape and in a safe place
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Posted by CSSHEGEWISCH on Tuesday, August 7, 2007 12:10 PM

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Yeah!! [yeah]i think there is one on the a&m r.r. all they operate is alco power.Big Smile [:D]

Arkansas & Missouri does have an all-Alco roster, mostly C420's, an RS1 and some other models  but no RSC2.

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, August 7, 2007 8:42 AM
Yeah!! [yeah]i think there is one on the a&m r.r. all they operate is alco power.Big Smile [:D]
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Posted by WSOR 3801 on Thursday, August 2, 2007 4:52 PM
There is one in North Freedom, at the Mid-Continent Railway Museum.  http://www.midcontinent.org/  Might be the one you were referring to.  It ma not be running at the present time, but is supposed to be running soon.

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Posted by CSSHEGEWISCH on Thursday, August 2, 2007 12:10 PM

Finding anything with a 244 engine and still in service would amaze me greatly.

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Posted by SSW9389 on Thursday, August 2, 2007 8:51 AM

Caboose63: The Brillion & Forest Junction unit was the one sold to Peter Smykla in 1986.

 caboose63 wrote:
are there any RSC-2's still in operation in the usa or canada? last one i knew in service was on wisconsin shortline Brillion & Forest Junction Railway till about 1985. Are they all scrapped?

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Posted by SSW9389 on Thursday, August 2, 2007 8:33 AM

Peter Smykla has one on his Paperton Junction Southern Railroad #5 near Pine Bluff, Arkansas. It is not a pure RSC-2 having been rebuilt by ALCO for the Milwaukee Road in 1965 with a chop nose and new 250 engine.

See Ken Ziegenbein's webpage at http://www.trainweather.com/090603PJS.html for information on this unit. Peter keeps his other ALCO interests at the Arkansas Railroad Museum in Pine Bluff where he is a director of the Cotton Belt Rail Historical Society.  

 

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Posted by Boomer Red on Thursday, August 2, 2007 12:42 AM

          There is a restored former Pacific Great Eastern unit in British Columbia but I don't know if it runs. I also found a picture of one on the Adirondack RWY in New York state that I believe is used in Excursion service. Heres a link for a picture

 

http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/misc-a/adrr25adc.jpg

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Any ALCO RSC-2's still in service?
Posted by caboose63 on Wednesday, August 1, 2007 9:41 PM
are there any RSC-2's still in operation in the usa or canada? last one i knew in service was on wisconsin shortline Brillion & Forest Junction Railway till about 1985. Are they all scrapped?

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