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romcat
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Posted - June 15 2008 : 09:01:51 AM

Hey Guys:

Haven't lead off the section in a while but I aquired a real beauty recently. My favouirte road since a boy was the Delaware & Hudson. Of all Alco's the RS3 is one of my favourites.

When I saw this on Ebay I couldn't afford it, but when it didn't sell I arranged a trade with the seller. Took a lot of rust just mailing each other locomotives but sometimes ya gotta...

Anyway the pics:

CUSTOM PAINTED D&H ALCO RS-3 LOCOMOTIVE
(ex B&M RS3)

Although the Delaware & Hudson still had dozens of ALCO RS3's operating in their fleet well into the 1970s, the railroad acquired two more RS-3's from the Boston & Maine in 1974. These two units, #1508 and #1536 - were purchased to provide additional steam heater equipped locomotives needed to continue passenger service along the D&H while the more famous ALCO PA's were sent to Morrison-Knudsen for rebuilding.

The 1508 immediately received an updated version of the famous lightning stripe paint scheme - featuring silver trucks, silver pilots, and a silver fuel tank. This locomotive had several characteristics which made this unit unique from the D&H's fleet of earlier RS3 ALCO Locomotives. It featured large angled number boards in front and back, a steam generator, and an extra battery box in the front of the cab. Door panels and door louvers on the sides of the long hood also had a much different configuration. The dual sealed beam headlights found on this loco was another feature which the originally purchased D&H RS3 units did not have. The 1508 served the Delaware and Hudson well - hauling passenger trains well after the return of the PAs. It was permanently assigned to freight service after the formation of AmTrak forced the discontinuation of all D&H passenger service. In the late 70's, the 1508 was renumbered to 4075 (a second usage for this roadnumber) and it even kept it's all silver trucks when it received it's all blue paint scheme in 1977!

This is a beautiful HO Scale model locomotive - which can serve your railroad in either passenger service, freight service - or both. It started out as an Undecorated Atlas/Kato RS3 (Original Kit #7070). Many modifications have been made to the RS3 body to better represent the 1508 as it would have looked in 1974 right after being repainted to D&H. Some of the details added are:
a utility box added to the walkway forward of the cab on the engineer's side
an extra battery box added forward the cab on the fireman/brakemen side
a 'Nathan' Type M-3RT1 Airhorn has been correctly mounted on the cab
a steam generator stack and mushroom vent have been placed on the roof behind the cab
lift rings mounted in the roof where appropiate
coupler cut bars and brake hoses have been added to the pilots
formed brass wire handrails with brass stantions were used along the sides of the loco to accommodate the extra battery box.
door louvers were removed from the sides of the long hood leaving only a pair of vertical vents to better represent the vent configurations found the later RS3 Phase III's.

All pics were done by the builder...

-Gareth

Edited by - romcat on June 15 2008 10:05:19 PM

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