GM&O (and later ICG) depended on RS-1s for about 30 years, from the start of deliveries in 1945, until ICG finally pulled the plug in late 1975 and replaced the Alcos with a flood of geeps. In Mo... (more)

The M&E has two locomotives numbered as No. 21. The first one is an ex SOO Line RS1, constructed during May 1953. The second No. 21 is a former Bangor & Aroostook, nee Santa Fe, GP7u that was rec... (more)

A RS1 is working the yard in Marquette.

Chattahoochee Industrial Railroad RS1 #97, with the name "Old Ninety Seven" on the cab above the number, outside the shop complex. #97 was built by Alco in November 1947 as Washington T... (more)

A New Haven RS-1 sits in the early morning sun at the Danbury Railway Museum

After a decade on static display, the Fire Up 611 campaign has done its job: Norfolk & Western Class J No. 611 is ready to leave the Virginia Museum of Transportation for a second rebirth, this ti... (more)

ex LOAM 1111, nee GM&O 1111, now CYDX 262

Gulf, Mobile & Ohio RS-1 50 (ex-Alton 50) switches in Illinois Central Gulf's former GM&O Bloomington, Illinois, yard on August 26, 1973. Kodachrome II

Crew members of the Catskill Mountain Railroad ride the front of Alco RS-1 401, ready to flag the next crossing.

Virginia Power Alco RS-1 switches a cut of coal cars on the RF&P Subdvision main line in Possum Point, VA.

A trio of RS-1s - the center unit in ICG orange and white - sits at the primitive engine servicing facility at West End Yard.

CONSUMERS POWER CO RS-1 401 ex Rutland 401. This RS-1 is now at the Saginaw Railway Museum. From my slide collection by JAMES CLAFLIN.

Talk about showing your heritage. Ann Arbor RS-1 #21 sits basking in the evening sun north of Lenawee Junction on the old Southern Michigan Railroad main line. While not connected to the rest of t... (more)

PC was mired in red ink almost from the start and the huge fleet of motive power from just about every builder that ever assembled a locomotive probably did little to help the situation. Power tha... (more)