S-2 290
S-2 290 in Memphis, Tennessee in July 1965 (Rail Junction Slides).
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RS-2M 554
RS-2M 554 at Mobile, Alabama on January 4, 1970 (Howard Wayt).
FA-1 5221
FA-1 5221 at Springfield, Missouri in December 1951.
FA-1 5204
FA-1 5204 at Oklahoma City, OK (date unknown).
OKC on the main line west of the yard (the yard sets east of the bridge you see in the back ground) and they are about to go under the ATSF and around Union Station trackage. The spur on the fireman’s side went to the connection track with the ATSF. The spur on the engineers side went to Producers CO-OP. Off the switch to Producers was a plant that rendered leather products. Many car load of dead cows were spotted, that made for some interesting smells. One of the switchman like to tell the story of coming eye ball to eye ball while tying a hand brake on a gondola load of cow hides. By looking at the consist I would guess that to be train QSF.
Special thanks to Jerome Lutzenberger.
S-2 290
S-2 290 at McCook, Illinois in February 1970.
FA-1 5216
FA-1 5216 at Springfield, Missouri on July 10, 1965 (Richard Wallin).
RS-1 100
RS-1 100 (date and location unknown).
RS-1 104
RS-1 104 at Springfield, Missouri (date unknown) (R. Wallin).
The subject locomotive is in storage on the north of two tracks at the Springfield Stockyards. The stockyards are west of North Broadway Avenue, at the east end of Springfield Yard. The yard is also known as West Yard or Kansas Avenue Yard. The stockyard tracks sat on a rise south of the Frisco’s main tracks, yard leads and locomotive service tracks area.
Coupled to the front of the locomotive is another RS-1, 105. The Frisco Archive also includes an afternoon photograph of that locomotive taken in 1969.
The date helps establish timeframe context to explain several factors in this image. Records indicate both locomotives, along with sister RS-1s 103 and 108, were retired in November 1969. That is why the units are in storage outside the Mechanical Department’s area. The units are in just before being shipped to Electro-Motive Division as trade-in for new locomotives.
In the distance to the right of the road switcher’s pilot is the lattice boom of a crane. This is the timeframe when construction was started on the improvements at the service tracks area and the city began constructing the new North Kansas Avenue viaduct. Also visible are locomotives at the service tracks area. The service tracks are just east of the Springfield Diesel Shop.
The view is looking northwest.
Special thanks to Mark Davidson.
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RS-2m 551
RS-2m 551 at Gary, Indiana on July 8, 1972 (Mike Schaffer).
FA-1 5209
FA-1 5209 (date and location unknown).
