Alco RS27

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
1

I tried looking up info on these locos.

Does anyone know if any of the RS27’s touched Canadian Lines. Maybe the Demonstrators?

Anyone know?

Thanks Caso

2

I’m pretty sure that PGE either leased or purchased at least one RS27 demonstrator.

3

it must have been leased, at least according to this website.

http://www.thedieselshop.us/Alco_RS27.HTML

4

From Richard Steinbrenner’s excellent American Locomotive Company A Centennial Remembrance the demonstrators worked on 22 different railroads. Steinbrenner does not list them. The former demonstators were used as part of a lease fleet and were acquired by MLW, went to Canada and worked for PGE and for Devco on Cape Breton Island. See pages 399-401.

Part 2 of Demonstrating the DL640 by Chris MacDermot has just come out in The Railroad Press #73.

5

Hi

If you have access to the book Rail Canada vol 2, on page 27 is a photo of demo RS-27 675 as a trailing unit with RS-18 626. It doesn’t say when it was taken.

Jim

6

That’s on PGE

Jim