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Classic ALCO/MLW/GE fan club

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Trainmaster.Curt
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Classic ALCO/MLW/GE fan club
Posted by Trainmaster.Curt on Friday, February 9, 2007 12:36 PM

I think we should have a classic ALCO/MLW/GE club, devoted to the smokiest engines that existed. Personally i like the RS18's, RSC-24's, 70 Tonners, 44 Tonners, M636, and M420W, and HR412's. This summer i hope to get video and photos of the SMNR HR412 in action, with it's 251 engine smokin.

TMC (CNR Mixed train GMD1 1063 with combine coach) (Remember always at Railway X-ing's, (Stop, Look and Listen!)
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Posted by trolleyboy on Saturday, February 10, 2007 12:18 AM

Hi good idea this thread, one can never get to much info or pictures of Alco's.I'm partial to Rs10's and 18's myself, though any Alco or MLW will do fine.

An RS18u of the Ontario Southland for everyone.

Rob

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Posted by Trainmaster.Curt on Saturday, February 10, 2007 2:03 PM
So you're an "East Door" neighbour to me, from Ontario i take it. Well i'm glad that there are ALCO fans out there, and when i next go to Ontario i will definitely go to visit the OSR and the Guelph Junction Railway.
TMC (CNR Mixed train GMD1 1063 with combine coach) (Remember always at Railway X-ing's, (Stop, Look and Listen!)
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Posted by trolleyboy on Saturday, February 10, 2007 10:15 PM

Yes sir an east door neighbour. LOL I',m not exactly from the frozen tndra your calling home but it'sd felt like it the last three weeks Dead [xx(]Guelph jct certainly has it's highs as an ALCO wonderland that and the Trillium  rail in my original home town of St Catharines with all it's S13's and slugs.Here's some more guelph jcy shots for you.

The usual power RS23's

Rob

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Posted by joseph2 on Tuesday, February 13, 2007 10:40 AM
Back in the 1970's the Erie Lackawanna used RS-3's on their trains here in Indiana,perhaps five units to a train.The trains slowed before entering a city,but on the way out the Alcos would accelerate and put down a smokescreen. Those were the good old days.   joe
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Posted by trolleyboy on Wednesday, February 28, 2007 11:54 PM

Another shot for the Alcophiles. This is a poor snap I mad e of a CP C424 switching just accross the baorder in Detroit back on a trip I made to Chicagoland in 1993

 

Rob

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Posted by Erie Lackawanna on Thursday, March 1, 2007 12:17 AM
 Trainmaster.Curt wrote:

I think we should have a classic ALCO/MLW/GE club, devoted to the smokiest engines that existed. Personally i like the RS18's, RSC-24's, 70 Tonners, 44 Tonners, M636, and M420W, and HR412's. This summer i hope to get video and photos of the SMNR HR412 in action, with it's 251 engine smokin.

If there's an ALCO/MLW/GE club, I'm onboard, but by GE, you mean critters, U-Boats, Dash 7s and maybe standard cab Dash 8s only right? 

Charles Freericks
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Posted by trainboyH16-44 on Friday, March 2, 2007 1:56 PM

I love my ALCo/MLWs! Hearing that distinctive chugging and watching clouds of smoke blasting along the mainline...

My favorites are definitely the Montreal derivatives of the Century series.....

Go here for my rail shots! http://www.railpictures.net/showphotos.php?userid=9296

Building the CPR Kootenay division in N scale, blog here: http://kootenaymodelrailway.wordpress.com/

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Posted by wallyworld on Friday, March 2, 2007 2:03 PM

http://www.calclassic.com/alco/

 

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

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MOJAX
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Posted by MOJAX on Friday, March 2, 2007 4:58 PM

I caught an EL C425 at Pullman Junction back in 1975.

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=44740

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Posted by wallyworld on Friday, March 2, 2007 5:19 PM

Add Baldwin to your line up and count me in.

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

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Posted by MOJAX on Friday, March 2, 2007 5:41 PM
 wallyworld wrote:

Add Baldwin to your line up and count me in.

 

Man I love those Shark-Nose units! 

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Posted by wallyworld on Friday, March 2, 2007 5:46 PM

Theres only one prettier..shes being restored to operating condition by Doyle....NKP PA 190

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Posted by MOJAX on Friday, March 2, 2007 5:50 PM
Is Doyle the man up in Norhern California that has a round house full of cool old diesels?

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Posted by wallyworld on Friday, March 2, 2007 5:54 PM

Yep...Heres the website...

 

http://www.nkp190.com/

 

 

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Trainmaster.Curt
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Posted by Trainmaster.Curt on Friday, March 9, 2007 1:24 PM
You must mean Doyle McCormack, the Engineer (Steam Master) who helped overhaul the now famous CPR 2816.
TMC (CNR Mixed train GMD1 1063 with combine coach) (Remember always at Railway X-ing's, (Stop, Look and Listen!)
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