Pennsylvania
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Bowser introduces a classic Pennsylvania locomotive: Alco RS-3 “Hammerhead”. Loco was built by Alco for the Pennsylvania Railroad in December 1953 and was delivered as PRR 8445. It was equipped with both dynamic brakes and a steam generator.
This unit is one of five RS-3s equipped with both dynamic brakes and a steam generator. PRR 8445 was built especially for helper service between Emporium and Keating Summit, Pa., on the Harrisburg-Buffalo line. The steam generator was installed to permit the 8445 to protect the passenger schedules on the line between Emporium and Erie in the event of a failure by the normally-assigned E8s.
The unit was renumbered in 1966 to PRR 5569 and conveyed in the Penn Central merger in 1968 and became PC 5569. As the unit was to be traded into General Electric in 1970 it was exchanged with the PC controlled Lehigh Valley for an older RS-2 211 which was then traded into GE in the Hammer Heads place. It was then painted with Lehigh Valley colors and numbered 211. This unit spent time in western New York being used in yard and local service in and around Buffalo. Occasionally the unit took a local east out of Buffalo on the main and ventured within a mile of our museum on the LV main to the south of us, working local trains in Lima and Manchester. After its short stay in western New York the unit was transferred to the Bethlehem, Pa., engine terminal and saw service on the coal branches and serviced the steel mills in the Allentown area.
With the onset of Conrail the unit was renumbered CR 5487, used for a while, then set aside. In 1979 Conrail was in its final stages of rebuilding RS3’s into “DeWitt Geeps,” so named because PC started rebuilding RS’s in their DeWitt shops in Syracuse, New York.
Source: Bowser / Rochester & Genesee Valley RR Museum.
True scale and true to life miniature model for adult collectors.
Not suitable for children under 14 years.