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Yep. Like the Alco RSD1
I always wondered why the funny looking cab on those things. It looked like someone had tried to make a North American prototype look alien. This was a protobash that is the reverse of what some of us had to do in the Bad Old Days when there was not much good North American Steam in N scale; we had to take alien prototypes and try to make them look North American.Despite all that, I never recall reading why those things had the funny looking cab....
The War Production Board grabbed all of them, including those already in service on the U.S. roads, had that funny cab and those C-C trucks swapped in and shipped them off to Persia and Russia. Those C-C trucks were specifically designed to operate on the crummy Russian track and the crummy track in the north of Persia, as most of the railroads then in place in the north were built by the Russians (from the mid to late nineteenth century to the early 1920s, Persia was divided into three ...
Now perhaps I'm curious enough to dig through about 10k slides from when I was in the Navy in the early 1980's. The article seems to suggest most went over seas or were US Army. I swear one of these beasts sat for years on a rarely used piece of track at the end of Pier 12 and Pier 11 at Naval Operating Base, Norfork, VA. It was an RS unit, and it had the Euro cab. I know once or twice I grabbed a shot of it. I don't think it moved, but we were out to sea more than in-port, so my time there over the course of four years was actually quite limited.Bob