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MONON Trains => Diesel Locomotives => Topic started by: Jim Davis on October 14, 2012, 12:07:16 pm
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MON PAX Train - Lafayette IN - 08/02/64 - {Dennis Schmidt Photo}
http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/monon/mon-lafPT-dsa.jpg (http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/monon/mon-lafPT-dsa.jpg)
MON RS2 21 - Bloomington IN - 05/13/50 - (AA Salle Photo) {Dennis Schmidt Collection}
http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/monon/mon21dsa.jpg (http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/monon/mon21dsa.jpg)
MON RS2 24 - Linden IN - 06/07/58 - (AA Salle Photo) {Dennis Schmidt Collection}
http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/monon/mon24dsa.jpg (http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/monon/mon24dsa.jpg)
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Nice photos Jim. I especially like the Linden one.
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Nice photos, but WTH is a "PAX Train"???
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Passenger Train.
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What is it with the RS2 pre-1966 lettering schemes? Some had 'MONON' on the cab, some had it on the long hood with the arrowhead logo on the cab, some with 'The Hoosier Line" script, some not, some with 'MONON' on the hood ends, some not...
Was there a method to the lettering? Who determined how a loco would be lettered?
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Wish we knew who made those decisions and why, Jim.
In a nutshell, the first three RS2's were delivered by Alco in early 1947 in a black-and-yellow scheme with the steam-era red-and-white "lozenge" herald on the cab side and large white script "The Hoosier Line" on the carbody sides. Later in that same year, the rest (6) were delivered in black-and-gold with the white MONON's on their carbody sides with smaller "The Hoosier Line"'s below them and round red-on-white "ball-M" heralds on the cab sides. Then through the 50's and into the 60's, the lettering schemes were gradually simplified as the locomotives were shopped, first by dropping "The Hoosier Line"'s, then the heralds, and eventually on some units substituting gold or black lettering for the white so that just prior to their 1964 rebuilding, no two RS2's seemed to have exactly the same scheme.
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Tim in looking at photos available, it appears by the early 1960's all the Monon RS-2's were attired in a paint scheme that featured white numbers on both ends above the headlights with a white "Monon" directly under the cab windows on the gold band and a white road number under that on the black cab side. The only unit I can not verify with a photo is #29. The use of silver trucks and yellow handrails seems to vary between locomotives during the early 1960's.
The RS-2 were not rebuilt in 1964. The first rebuilt unit was #29 which became #59 in 9/65 and the progam concluded with units #22 & #23 becoming #52 & #53 in 4/67.
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Thanks for the correction, Steve. Here's a photo of #25 in that simplified scheme.
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Steve,
Attached is an image I have of #29. I don't know if this helps you.
Geof