This locomotive has seen the world as a member of the U.S. government’s locomotive roster. Built as a “civilian” RS1 in 1941, it began life as Atlanta & St. Andrews Bay 902. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor changed that, when the unit was requisitioned by the army for overseas use. After receiving a close-clearance cab and multi-gauge C-C trucks, the loco, redesignated RSD1, spent the war in service on the Trans-Iranian Railroad. Peacetime meant a relocation to the Alaska Railway until being sent to the DOT test facility in Pueblo, Colorado two decades later. In the early 1980’s, DOT 013 was donated to the Smithsonian, and placed in storage at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania as shown here. In February 2011, the unit made its final relocation to the U.S. Army Transportation Corps museum in Fort Eustis, VA.
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