Timothy, Thank you for posting this. Please provide the date of the derailment wreck, name of the newspaper and date of publication. These are important pieces of information that help us with documentation and research. Hope this helps. Thanks! Mark
The incident occurred during Oct 23, 1951. RS-1, 105, was pulling 22 cars into a side track, when it struck a cut of eleven cars. Three cars including the locomotive were derailed.
Timothy, Doing a little research on the forum this evening and stumbled across your post on the RS-1. Thanks for posting that. RS-1's are one of my favorite diesels. There's a highly modified Kato HO scale RS-1 (thanks to Tom Holley) on our layout that is one of my favorites (one of those that won't be sold).
That is one of the few "non-railroad" photos that shows the RS-1 in original livery on the River Division. Good catch Tim!
