20-22151-1 PROVIDENCE & WORCHESTER RS3 PHASE 1B #161-O QuickBooks Pilots and Fuel Tank •Metal

Pilots and Fuel Tank •Metal Chassis •Metal Handrails and Horn •(2) Handpainted Engineer Cab Figures •Colorful Paint Scheme •Metal Wheels

in an exquisite 1/350 scale assembly kit display model

Check out this O scale model of the Susquehanna #236 road switcher

many railroads found their older coaling towers couldn't handle the increased demand

Build it stock

20-22151-1 PROVIDENCE & WORCHESTER RS3 PHASE 1B #161-O QuickBooks Pilots and Fuel Tank •MetalBy the time the first RS 3's rolled off the assembly line in 1950, Alco had refined its road switcher concept to create "a truly universal locomotive which could do anything and go almost anywhere," in the words of author J. W. Swanson in New Haven Power. In contrast with its predecessor, the 1000 hp RS 1, the 1600 hp RS 3 had all the power of a road diesel of its time and could boil along at up to 80 mph. For awhile in the early 1950's, ALCO looked