2 Former US Army locos. Alco nos B2080 & B2081
Aug 2000
The Nevada Northern Railway Museum has obtained 2 former U.S. Army locomotives. They were moved by the Union Pacific Railroad from the Tooele Army Depot in Utah to the NN tracks at Shafter. The museum then moved them directly to the yards at East Ely.
Numbered B2080 (b/n 80396) and B2081 (b/n 80397), they are 1600 hp, type C-C MRS-1's (military road switcher) built for the Army between March and October, 1953 by Alco-GE (built by Alco Schenectady as a GE subcontractor). The "B" indicates they have a train-heating steam boiler for passenger service. The Alco model designation is RSX-4.
The 83 locomotives in the 2041-2123 series were custom designed as adjustable-gauge units that could have operated during the Korean War on foreign rail lines. They had a maximum weight of 240,000 lbs. that makes them particularly well suited to the NNRy light duty rail.
