Quite a handy and capable little yard switcher. This type of small locomotive provided valuable service for cramped RR yards with tight radius curves and for industrial facilities; the type of unglamorous service that large road locomotives are not well suited for. The Buffalo Creek #43 is a beautifully restored example.
Hello FMnut! WOW! No one sent me anything about your video so I'm going to add a link to this on our WebSite! Maybe this summer we will be able to see it run again on WNY Rails. Thanks for the great video! Sincerely, Scott H. - WNYRHS - owners of Buffalo Creek #43.
Use to run ALCO switchers for a New haven Railroad engineer at 1st street yard in south Boston in 65-66 every. Saturday occasionally our engine for the day would be a HH600 very different from an S class switcher. Used a Mackintosh and Seymour Model 531 or engine mounted the reverse of the 539 engines. I.E. The Maine generator was facing the front of the engine also the air compressor was a CP type run off the low voltage 112 volt dc current like that used on streetcars only larger and the engineer controlled the cooling of the engine by way of three switches Low, medium, and high to control the electric radiator fan the S class 539 engines all had the main generator facing the cab and mechanical Radiator fan driven by a jack shaft off the crankshaft to a gearbox. To this day an S-2/4 or RS-1 is my preferred switcher.
Hello James! Thank you for your excellent incite into the running of an HH660. Could you please contact me through our website, I would love to get some more technical knowledge. Sincerely, Scott H.
Quite a handy and capable little yard switcher. This type of small locomotive provided valuable service for cramped RR yards with tight radius curves and for industrial facilities; the type of unglamorous service that large road locomotives are not well suited for. The Buffalo Creek #43 is a beautifully restored example.
Relco 606 is BCK 43.
@@fmnut It's in Hamburg, New York.
Wow! Now that's a proud old loco...older than most of us, and working harder than most of us too!
Thanx for posting...never seen one on video b4.
Nice old engine. Since I used to live in Jonesboro, GA, I model the Central of Georgia Railway Company. Cheers from eastern TN
She's an old girl. I remember an article in Trains Magazine about this same locomotive. Thank you for posting this rare video. Great sound too.
This is making Alco history. Old but runs like a new locomotive!
Talk about Old School! This unit even has brass and babbit bearings.
Wow. 9572 cubic inches. Now that's what I call a six banger!
Pull you out the door
Interesting little engine. Haven't seen one of those before. Glad it's still around.
Hello FMnut! WOW! No one sent me anything about your video so I'm going to add a link to this on our WebSite! Maybe this summer we will be able to see it run again on WNY Rails. Thanks for the great video! Sincerely, Scott H. - WNYRHS - owners of Buffalo Creek #43.
Use to run ALCO switchers for a New haven Railroad engineer at 1st street yard in south Boston in 65-66 every. Saturday
occasionally our engine for the day would be a HH600 very different from an S class switcher. Used a Mackintosh and Seymour
Model 531 or engine mounted the reverse of the 539 engines. I.E. The Maine generator was facing the front of the engine also the air compressor was a CP type run off the low voltage 112 volt dc current like that used on streetcars only larger and the engineer controlled the cooling of the engine by way of three switches Low, medium, and high to control the electric radiator fan the S class 539 engines all had the main generator facing the cab and mechanical Radiator fan driven by a jack shaft off the crankshaft to a gearbox. To this day an S-2/4 or RS-1 is my preferred switcher.
Hello James! Thank you for your excellent incite into the running of an HH660. Could you please contact me through our website, I would love to get some more technical knowledge. Sincerely, Scott H.
Did you ever get to run an RS3 ? How did you like it compared to the older Alco models
James Shanks6
It's kind of a cute little bug... I have an Atlas HO Silver HO model of it in Southern Pacific Lines road name. Nice loco.
Interesting,, I thought these were mostly on the west coast mainly the shipyards in San Diego for this to be in Georgia is different
Buffalo Creek #43 is being restored by the Western New York Railroad Museum. They hope to fire it up this spring.
Is that locomotive still running?
Yes. Preserved and repainted as Buffalo Creek 43 on the Buffalo Southern at Hamburg NY.
was does Relco stand for
TexasRailfan21 Railway Equipment Leasing Co.
anyone know what year she was built??
1940
Where is the oval window?
What are you talking about?
@@fmnut : I think they were conflating this HH660 with the H16-44, which had half-moon cab side windows early on.
@ErickC yes, or maybe the H20 44 which was also an end cab.
we have a similar locomotives TGM23 and TGM4 =)
That is nothing alike