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| Author: | JD Moore [ Tue Feb 17, 2004 2:52 am ] |
| Post subject: | Question for Alex Huff |
I have seen Alex Huff post here before...I assume that you are the A. Huff that I have seen associated with the Dakota Southern railroad. I have a quick question for you...I have read that Dakota Southern has been credited with purchasing an Alco S-3 diesel (last owned by the Kewash Railroad in Keota, Louisiana). The locomotive was c/n #79774 and it carried a builders date of 5/1952. Did this locomotive ever grace the DSRC roster? If so, whatever became of it? Thanks much, JD Moore Elko, NV jamoore@elko.net |
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| Author: | Alex Huff [ Tue Feb 17, 2004 12:10 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Question for Alex Huff |
Locomotive is on Dakota Southern in Chamberlain, SD. It has a grounded armature in the main generator. For those who maintain rosters, the unit is owned by Sisseton Southern Rwy, a sister company which operated Sisseton to Milbank, SD from 1987 to 1989, and is leased to DSRC. dsrc512@sd.value.net |
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| Author: | jc boykin [ Tue Feb 17, 2004 1:56 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Question for Alex Huff |
ALCO 79774 (5/1952) was built for Brooks-Scanlon Lbr Co. of Bend, Oregon as #102 -- one of the earliest diesel logging locomotives in the US. johncb@u.washington.edu |
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| Author: | JD Moore [ Tue Feb 17, 2004 2:24 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Question for Alex Huff |
> ALCO 79774 (5/1952) was built for > Brooks-Scanlon Lbr Co. of Bend, Oregon as > #102 -- one of the earliest diesel logging > locomotives in the US. That was what sparked my interest in this unit. After B-S shut down it's logging railroad in 1956 the unit went to the Oregon & Northwestern Railroad of Hines (Burns), Oregon. The locomotive kept it's #102 while in service there. In 1966 it went to the City of Prineville Railroad, where it became the #103. In the early 1980's the COP replaced it's Alcos with ex-MILW "GP-20s" (re-built GP-9s), and the #103 then went to the Kewash. I'd read that it went to the Dakota Southern, and I was just curious if it was still there or not. Thanks for the information, Alex. Brooks-Scanlon had another Alco S-3, the #101, also purchased new in 1952. It too went to the Oregon & Northwestern as their #101 until 1966, when the unit was sold to Longview Fibre as their #7001. Longview Fibre retired the unit last year and donated it to the Battle Ground, Yacolt & Chelatchie Prairie Railroad Association, which operated passenger excursion on the north end of the old Lewis & Clark/Chelatchie Prairie/Longview Portland & Northern/Northern Pacific line from Battle Ground to Yacolt, Washington. Thanks for the info. JD Moore Elko, NV jamoore@elko.net |
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| Author: | Alex Huff [ Tue Feb 17, 2004 9:27 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Question for Alex Huff |
Thanks also for the information on the sister unit. Minor note, they were equipped with MU, which I'm told is uncommon among 660 hp Alcos. dsrc512@sd.value.net |
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| Author: | JD Moore [ Wed Feb 18, 2004 1:52 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Question for Alex Huff |
> Thanks also for the information on the > sister unit. Minor note, they were equipped > with MU, which I'm told is uncommon among > 660 hp Alcos. Martin Hansen (lawyer and logging railroad historian who lives in Bend) stated in a recent posting of his to a logging-related Yahoo group that Alco (in it's dieselization study of the Brooks-Scanlon railroad) originally intended for the two locomtives to run together in m.u. handling about sixty or so cars per trip...that's why they were equipped with m.u. However, once they got to Bend the m.u. operation did not work out because the 60-car trains were just too long to safely negotiate the railroad. -Jeff jamoore@elko.net |
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