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A rare type of RS1 built by AlCO it has a low nose instead of the typical high nose
Category Photography / All
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 1280 x 720px
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In Brazil we have one abandoned in the station of Leopoldina, in the city of Rio de Janeiro, state of Rio de Janeiro, it's in the colors of the CBTU (Companhia Brasileira de Trens Urbanos), the original owner was the EFCB (Estrada de Ferro Central do Brasil) that bought it in 1945, with other 35 more units, today the locomotive belongs to the CBTU, it worked in a maintenance shed of the CBTU before it being abandoned in 1997, the SPR (São Paulo Railway) bought 4 units in 1948 and its successor the EFSJ (Estrada de Ferro Santos a Jundiai) bought 2 in 1956, all the other 35 from EFCB and the 6 from the SPR/EFSJ was scrapped.
One pic of the RS-1 CBTU ex-EFCB in the present days:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped....._CBTU_7038.JPG
One pic of the RS-1 CBTU ex-EFCB in the present days:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped....._CBTU_7038.JPG
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