Kelvin I forwarded your enquiry to some local yahoo groups. Here's the first response. Tom Hawley ----- Original Message ----- From: Fritz Milhaupt To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kelvin White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Greetings > > Without giving too much away about my next modelling project ! > > DPH does a Decal set for C&O including their two RS3 #s 5600 & 5601 > - I've yet to find an online photo - can anybody help? Does any body know where > these RS3s worked? Did they work in Michigan over former PM lines? > How long did the RS3s last? > > > > > > > > > Fritz's response: I have not seen any evidence that the C&O's RS3s were ever used in Michigan. The same holds true for the pair of RS2s they had only briefly, and the pair of RS1s they had, for that matter. As a general rule of thumb, until the early 1960s, Michigan was nearly all-EMD on the C&O. The exceptions to this were the short-lived ex-PM GE 70-ton switchers (#20-22, gone by the end of 1952) and the Manistee & North Eastern's GE 44-ton switcher (#1), which was immediately reassigned to the C&O's docks in Virginia upon the merger of the M&NE into the C&O in 1955.
The RS3s lasted on the C&O until 1968, spending their time in Kentucky and West Virginia, possibly seeing occasional service up into southern Ohio. Alco power was used regularly on the C&O in Michigan in the mid-to-late 1960s, when several of the "Dragon Lady" RSD7s were brought up here to end their service lives on cross-border transfer runs between Detroit and Windsor until 1969. The C&O's quartet of C630s were pretty much "Michigan locomotives" during their career, from late 1967 until early 1974, before being sold to Morrison-Knudsen (they never wore Chessie paint, BTW). I'll leave the question about DT&I power on the Annie to others more familiar with it. -Fritz Milhaupt Webmaster, Pere Marquette Historical Society, Inc. http://www.pmhistsoc.org [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Change your membership, change your message settings, use our CALENDAR, view shared files or photos, view the list archives, GO TO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
