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Minnesota Commercial ALCo RS-27

Minnesota Commercial Railway rosters many old, rare GE, ALCo and MLW diesel locomotives that see regular service, and on the 14th of March '11, a sunny, late-winter/early spring day at MNNR's Saint Paul roundhouse and shops, I caught ALCo RS-27 (ALCo spec DL-640) #318 idling on a ready track at the sanding tower in front of the turntable. Number 318 is an ex-Green Bay & Western unit, which was originally owned by the Chicago & North Western. Listen to that chortling, low vibrato of the ALCo prime mover, still in good shape after all these years, and kept purring by the adept shop forces at MNNR. The RS-27 produces 2400 horsepower with its 251B engine. Only 23 of these units were built, from 1959 to 1962, for the C&NW, GB&W, Soo Line and Pennsylvania Railroad. Five more were in ALCo's lease fleet, and ended up on the PRR and Union Pacific, and after being sold to MLW in Canada, the Roberval & Saguenay Railway, British Columbia Railway and the Devco Railway. Pennsy's went to Penn Central, then Conrail, and C&NWs went to Peabody Coal and the GB&W. All were scrapped except for two of those GBW units, which went to the Minnesota Commercial, and thus are the very last operating RS-27s in existence. Also seen here (briefly), is MNNR C36-7 #59. This big GE was formerly with Hammersley Iron in Australia of all places, and is representative of a class of diesels built more for export than anything (though until recently, Union Pacific rostered 60 of them). Also present is an ex-Milwaukee Road passenger car.