Still Going Strong After All These Years

I used the same title last week as I am using this week. These two post cards of locomotives that belong to small but long-lasting railroads. They both deserve the title.

The locomotive pictured on the front of this post card is an Alco RSD4. The ALCO RSD-4 was a 1,600 horsepower six axle diesel-electric locomotive built by the American Locomotive Company between 1951 and 1952. It was a derivative of the four-axle ALCO RS-3, with two additional powered axles which allowed better tractive effort at lower speeds. It was the first “C-C” locomotive, meaning that all 6 of the axels were powered. Due to the inadequate capacity in the hood for the main generator, it was not very popular; only 36 locomotives were manufactured. Because of this the RSD4 was superseded in production by the ALCO RSD-5. The Utah Railway owned 7 of the RSD4 locomotives. https://www.american-rails.com/utah.html The Utah Railway has its beginnings dating back to January 24, 1912, when it was incorporated by the State of Utah, originally as the Utah Coal Railway Company but later shortened to just the Utah Railway in May of that year. Today the Utah Railway hauls more than 90,000 annual carloads and operates over 400 miles of track although only 45 of those are actually owned (the rest are leased from the BNSF Railway and Union Pacific. The information above was taken from these two websites and Wikipedia: https://www.american-rails.com/utah.html Here is the website of the company today. https://www.gwrr.com/utah/

I am adding the back of the post card here so that you can read what the anonymous author wrote about the front of the card.