Here is a unique configuration as baby tunnel motor UPY 629 (GP15-1) runs long hood forward while teaming up with UPY 1329 (MP15DC) to pull a string of freight out of the 36th Street Yard.
Rio Grande liked Alco switchers and the road bought two Alco PA/B/A sets for passenger service. But freight, not so much. Five RS3s found their way onto the roster in 1951 and, unlike competing E... (more)