are there any RSC-2’s still in operation in the usa or canada? last one i knew in service was on wisconsin shortline Brillion & Forest Junction Railway till about 1985. Are they all scrapped?
There is a restored former Pacific Great Eastern unit in British Columbia but I don’t know if it runs. I also found a picture of one on the Adirondack RWY in New York state that I believe is used in Excursion service. Heres a link for a picture
http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/misc-a/adrr25adc.jpg
This site is awsome I spend hours there so be careful it can be addictive LOL
Peter Smykla has one on his Paperton Junction Southern Railroad #5 near Pine Bluff, Arkansas. It is not a pure RSC-2 having been rebuilt by ALCO for the Milwaukee Road in 1965 with a chop nose and new 250 engine.
See Ken Ziegenbein’s webpage at http://www.trainweather.com/090603PJS.html for information on this unit. Peter keeps his other ALCO interests at the Arkansas Railroad Museum in Pine Bluff where he is a director of the Cotton Belt Rail Historical Society.
Caboose63: The Brillion & Forest Junction unit was the one sold to Peter Smykla in 1986.
Finding anything with a 244 engine and still in service would amaze me greatly.
There is one in North Freedom, at the Mid-Continent Railway Museum. http://www.midcontinent.org/ Might be the one you were referring to. It ma not be running at the present time, but is supposed to be running soon.
[yeah]i think there is one on the a&m r.r. all they operate is alco power.[:D]
Arkansas & Missouri does have an all-Alco roster, mostly C420’s, an RS1 and some other models but no RSC2.
The Danbury Railroad Museum in Connecticut has one stored, I think it’s a former NewHope&Ivyland unit. No plans to get it running, but it’s in pretty good shape and in a safe place
RSC-3 PGE 561 is at the West Coast Railway Museum in Squamish, BC (home to the Royal Hudson 2860), and–to the best of my knowledge–is in running order.
