Most of Western Maryland’s RS3’s were retired by 1976, but four were leased by the Gettysburg Railroad when it was formed to operate the line from Gettysburg to Mount Holly Springs, Pennsylvan... (more)

Black River & Western RS3 1554 works the interchange siding at Three Bridges, New Jersey. The highway bridge in the distance is U.S. Route 202, and to the right of the Alco, a telegraph pole marks... (more)

Worn-out, obsolete, unneeded - all words that might accurately describe these old locomotives, as well as their dilapidated surroundings. But L&N is going to give several RS-3s (delivered in 1954... (more)

Black River & Western RS3 1554 has drawn the assignment for the road’s freight train. This is one of two BR&W schemes that the RS3 wore during its nine years on the New Jersey short line. For th... (more)

Don's to do list Summer 2012.

The Reading RS-3 that rests with a short "period" consist adjacent to Steamtown looks like it can use a new coat of paint. This unit was delivered to the Reading Company in 1952 and was... (more)

Passing rows of stored boxcars, a former New Haven RS-3 renumbered and now working for Penn Central pulls a transfer cut from the hump into the westbound departure yard at Cedar Hill Yard in New H... (more)

Working the South Station switch job, the crew of Amtrak RS3 117 carefully pushes the equipment of an outbound Northeast Corridor train from the Southampton Street yard towards a platform at South... (more)

Delaware Lackawanna WT-1 with CNJ RS-3 1554 leads a train of 2 MOW Flats under Courtland Street Signal Bridge as it makes it's way to Slateford.

Steamtown's Reading 467 is an RS-3. It is displayed in the old Erie Lackwanna yard with a small freight train.

A former Delaware & Hudson RS3 had found a new life on the Delaware Lackawanna (where she keeps her former D&H road number).

A former Delaware & Hudson RS3 had found a new life on the Delaware Lackawanna (where she keeps her former D&H road number).

The sun has just risen as the morning commuter train from St. Hyacinthe to Montreal meets an eastbound manifest. The vintage pair of MLW's consisting of RS-3 3900 and FPA-2 6750 were assigned to ... (more)

A rainy April day finds a Jersey Central RS3 visiting one of its old haunts, pausing at the west end of Allentown Yard.

A minimally repainted ex-NYC RS3 leads a Penn Central commuter train that's just out of South Station and bound for Framingham as it approaches Boston's Back Bay Station. E8s and RS3s were the usu... (more)