Delaware & Hudson: switchers ????

[tornado]

Did the D&H ever roster Alco/EMD/other diesel builders' end-cab switcher models, or were, for example, the Bridge Route's Alco RS-2s & -3s used for that work, as well as out on the road? I've never seen any pictures of D&H switchers, only road-switchers, like RS-11s, RS-36s & C420s doing yard work and hauling out on the road. Thanks. 

[areibel]

There are a couple pics of S series Alcos and one SW8 on George Ellwood's site here- www.rr-fallenflags.org/dh/dh-loco.html
But I hadn't noticed that there weren't that many plain switchers. I'm not that familiar with D&H operations, maybe someone more knowledgeable can chime in?

[lvrr325]

Cooperstown & Charlotte Valley just purchased two former D&H Alco S-types. D&H was exclusively Alco until purchasing SD45s in 1966; they had 32 S2s and 18 S4s with the newest built in late 1950.

The SW8 was a CP Rail unit assigned to duties in Philadelphia in the 1990s.

[Great-Northern-Willmar Div]

The ALCo S-2's were numbered 3001-3032 and the S-4's were 3033-3050.

Atlas has done both in HO scale at one time.

[stevewagner]

Atlas hasn't produced any HO D&H switchers since they substantially upgraded their S-2's a few years back. I'd welcome some.

For roster information on D&H locos, with some photos, see www.dhbridgeline.org , the website of the Bridge Line Historical Society, in which I'm active. The Delaware & Hudson had sold or scrapped all its S-2's and S-4's by the end of the 1960's. Some still survive. Pairs of S-4's had been used on transfer runs between the yard next to the Colonie Shops on the west side of Watervliet and Kenwood Yard near the Port of Albany.

The only EMD (or possibly GMD) end cab switcher that ever wore Delaware & Hudson lettering that I'm aware of was a Canadian Pacific unit that the CP sent to Philadelphia after it bought the D&H about 1991. It was bright red like most CP locos at that time.