290-297

[patrick]

ALCo S2 Number 291. Frisco file photo from the Western Historical Manuscript Collection.

[meteor910]

Did any of the ALCo S2's ever receive the later style FRISCO lettering & numbers (I don't know what to call the lettering font style) used on the EMD, Baldwin and F-M diesel switchers?

Ken (Meteor910)

[yardmaster]

Ken -
Just saw this post from a while back.

I checked the Springfield-Greene Co. collection on line and no S-2 photos there. Mike Condren has a "Paint Shop" column under construction his website (thanks, Mike!). He references scheme FR-S4d, applied to NW-2s and S-2s and using "Roman" lettering, with the S-2s actually delivered in FR-S4e, which had the painted coonskin w/unit number.

Interesting, the Fallen Flags website has a solitary photo of an S-2: #294 (unk photographer) in 1967 at Birmingham in the Roman lettering:

http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/slsf/slsf294.jpg

I'm wanting to think I've seen this photo elsewhere?