Anyone Going to the Moon Soon?

The locomotive on the front of this post card could have helped you get to the moon if you were going there in 1985, the year that this post card was published. It is a picture of an ALCO S-1 switcher.

Our friends at Wikipedia tells us this about the S-1s: "The ALCO S-1 and S-3 were 660 horsepower diesel-electric switcher locomotives produced by ALCO and their Canadian subsidiary Montreal Locomotive Works. The two locomotives differed only in trucks, with the S-1 using ALCO's own Blunt trucks, and the S-3 using AAR type A switcher trucks. The S-1 was built between April 1940 and June 1950, with a total of 543 completed. The S-1 and S-3 are distinguishable externally from the very similar S-2 and S-4 1,000 horsepower switchers in that they have a smaller exhaust stack with a round base and a smaller radiator shutter area on the nose sides. The S-1/S-3 radiator shutter area is taller than it is wide, while the S-2/S-4 radiator area is wider. The smaller stack is due to the lack of turbocharging." The specific S-1 shown on the post card is described by this website, https://wearerailfans.com/c/article/alco-s-series :"NASA Alco S-2 No. 2 was originally built for the United States Army and was one of a group of Alco switchers assigned to work at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Recorded in this photograph at the historic space center from which Apollo moon missions and Space Shuttle flights departed, the Alco served decidedly uncommon tasks, including the transport of spacecraft components and fuels. Today, the Alco is preserved at the Gold Coast Railroad Museum in the Miami area."

The post card was published by Mary Jayne's Railroad Specialties, Inc. in 1985. I have 243 post cards that were published by her. She ranks second in the number of post cards from the same publisher.