Alco only built 27 RS-27s, and only two still operate, including this one: ex-GB&W No. 318, now in service on the Minnesota Commercial. Here it is on a warm spring morning in May 2009, switching ... (more)
Unit 318 was built by Alco in 1962 as the demonstrator model for the RS-27. After stints on the C&NW, CP, and GB&W, it's now in Minnesota working for the Minnesota Commercial.
You can almost hear the chugging in this picture. Ex. GBW 318, one of two RS-27's Minnesota Commercial owns, shuffles cars in the small yard just south of Highway 35W.