Does anyone have photos of a UP Alco S-2? I am looking at detailing up a Lionel Legacy switcher and needed some photos to study. I could not find much on the net...
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Ok... could anyone suggest a book that would have photos of the UP Alco S-2?
Actually that looks like an RS1 or 2 - hope Hot Water does not see that ... 
JD -- I took a quick look at a couple of my "go to" sites for general info: American-rails at https://www.american-rails.com/alco-s2.html and Utahrails at http://utahrails.net/up-diesel...sel-roster-index.php. Both of them have good discussions about the Alco switchers and american-rails has a few pictures, but none in UP livery. Don Strack at Utah rails has a lot of UP info and many pictures. I didn't see any S-2s in my quick look. Its really a tremendous trove of info, so may be worth poking around a bit more. I'm not enough of a rivet counter to know whether the UP versions of the S-2 were different than what other roads had - and as pointed out on the american-rails site, some S-2s are still running...
The american-rails site references these two books - a quick look at the index for the first one lists S-2s and page numbers, but I have no idea whether there are pictures. Brian Solomon has a large number of RR photo books; I looked at the one I have on UP (published 2000) and there is one oblique angle picture of an Alco S (model unspecified, but I think its an S-2, since UP didn't own any S-1s) on p 110, but there isn't a lot of detail because it shows the whole cut of passenger cars being switched and the lighting isn't very good. If you can find Solomon's book on Alcos, (listed below) that might be a good bet...
Mike Schaefer (?) -- https://www.amazon.com/Vintage...72#reader_0760305072
Brian Solomon -- https://www.amazon.com/Alco-Lo...ativeASIN=0760333386
yup - that B & W photo above is an RS-2...
the Utah rails roster list link I posted earlier sez that the S-2 service life ended in 1971 (at least for UP), so the Union Pacific Power reference previously posted would certainly include the S-2 era...
One more thing - forgotten in my earlier post -- there is a Union Pacific Historical Society (http://uphs.org/) - apparently unaffiliated with UP. They publish a quarterly magazine and they might have a photo archive.
UP itself has, according to them, 500,000 photos - might be worth checking to see what they have and how to order some pictures https://www.up.com/aboutup/history/photos/index.htm
"lo and behole" (to quote my all-time-favorite cartoonist, Walt Kelly (Pogo)), I found a couple of photos of UP Alco 1000 hp units (which I think have to be S-2s) in Kratville and Ranks, "Motive Power of the Union Pacific" (1977) ... below (I think)
Hmmm, fudge - not as clear in the upload as the original scan on my computer. If you need something sharper, let me know and I'll mess with it
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J Daddy posted:Anyone know what this is mounted on the hood?
It almost looks like a cab signal equipment box.
Tom
No cab signals on a switcher. It is most likely where they placed the radio. There is not much room in the cab of an S2 for a radio of pre-1990 vintage. Santa Fe placed radios in similar steel enclosures on its S2's.
