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Owner: Reading Railroad
Model:Alco RS3Built As:RDG 485 (RS3)
Serial Number:79944Order No:20793
Frame Number:prime mover # 12811Built:6/1952
Notes:Built 6/52, RCT&HS
Other locos with this serial:  RDG 485(RS3) RCTH 485(RS3)
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Reading Alco RS3 #485
Title:  Reading Alco RS3 #485
Description:  Digital image from Kim E. Piersol original 35mm Kodachrome transparency. Outside Reading Company's shops.
Photo Date:  11/1/1972  Upload Date: 8/2/2006 8:57:03 PM
Location:  Reading, PA
Author:  Kim Piersol
Categories: 
Locomotives:  RDG 485(RS3)
Views:  892   Comments: 0
RDG 485
Title:  RDG 485
Description:  Storage line, now RCTHS owned
Photo Date:  4/1/1974  Upload Date: 9/8/2011 8:56:53 AM
Location:  Reading, PA
Author:  bob gottschall
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  RDG 485(RS3)
Views:  1613   Comments: 0
A Workhorse Pauses at Frontier Yard
Title:  A Workhorse Pauses at Frontier Yard
Description:  A former Reading RS3 in transit to the Reading Company Technical & Historical Society in Reading, PA.
Photo Date:  10/26/1997  Upload Date: 2/10/2006 12:36:34 PM
Location:  Buffalo, NY
Author:  Jonathan Ferraro
Categories: 
Locomotives:  RDG 485(RS3)
Views:  2170   Comments: 0
RDG 485
Title:  RDG 485
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/20/2002  Upload Date: 10/1/2005 11:03:08 PM
Location:  Temple, PA
Author:  Matt Adams
Categories: 
Locomotives:  RDG 485(RS3)
Views:  705   Comments: 0
RDG 485
Title:  RDG 485
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/16/2005  Upload Date: 10/13/2005 1:09:59 AM
Location:  Temple, PA
Author:  Bryan Eberly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  RDG 485(RS3)
Views:  411   Comments: 1
RDG Alco RS3 #485
Title:  RDG Alco RS3 #485
Description:  Reading Company Technical & Historical Society
Photo Date:  7/30/2005  Upload Date: 7/30/2005 7:03:56 PM
Location:  Leesport, PA
Author:  Kim Piersol
Categories: 
Locomotives:  RDG 485(RS3)
Views:  1355   Comments: 0
RDG 485
Title:  RDG 485
Description:  Reading Alco RS3 485 and ex-Amtrak car Willow Grove are part of the RCT&H Society collection in Leesport.
Photo Date:  8/20/2005  Upload Date: 10/30/2006 2:41:57 PM
Location:  Leesport, PA
Author:  Stephen Bradley
Categories: 
Locomotives:  RDG 485(RS3)
Views:  274   Comments: 0
Reading Company Technical & Historical Society
Title:  Reading Company Technical & Historical Society
Description:  An ALCO, built in 1952, is awaiting restoration at the Leesport Yard.
Photo Date:  9/26/2006  Upload Date: 9/26/2006 9:24:20 PM
Location:  Leesport, PA
Author:  Mike Thomas
Categories: 
Locomotives:  RDG 485(RS3)
Views:  504   Comments: 2
RDG 485
Title:  RDG 485
Description:  On display at Leesport, while the new official display is down the line at Temple.
Photo Date:  4/28/2007  Upload Date: 5/4/2007 10:32:51 PM
Location:  Leesport, PA
Author:  Kevin Andrusia
Categories: 
Locomotives:  RDG 485(RS3)
Views:  281   Comments: 1
RDG 485
Title:  RDG 485
Description:  Reading 485 is seen at Leesport. The locomotive will eventually be repainted into the Reading paint scheme.
Photo Date:  11/4/2007  Upload Date: 1/30/2008 9:54:38 PM
Location:  Leesport, PA
Author:  Paul Koprowski
Categories: 
Locomotives:  RDG 485(RS3)
Views:  294   Comments: 0
RDG 485
Title:  RDG 485
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/7/2008  Upload Date: 7/22/2008 12:25:43 PM
Location:  Leesport, PA
Author:  Jeffrey Pfeiffer
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  RDG 485(RS3)
Views:  367   Comments: 0
RDG 485
Title:  RDG 485
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/9/2009  Upload Date: 5/10/2009 7:23:37 AM
Location:  Leesport, PA
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  RDG 485(RS3)
Views:  333   Comments: 1
RDG 485
Title:  RDG 485
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/9/2009  Upload Date: 5/10/2009 7:23:37 AM
Location:  Leesport, PA
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  RDG 485(RS3)
Views:  269   Comments: 0
Up The Hill
Title:  Up The Hill
Description:  103 shoves 485 up the hill to the museum property.
Photo Date:  6/28/2009  Upload Date: 7/6/2009 11:47:46 AM
Location:  Hamburg, PA
Author:  Justin Mengel
Categories: 
Locomotives:  RDG 103(NW2) RDG 485(RS3)
Views:  540   Comments: 0
Home Ground
Title:  Home Ground
Description:  103 couples 702 and 485 on the newly constructed third storage track.
Photo Date:  6/28/2009  Upload Date: 7/6/2009 11:55:39 AM
Location:  Hamburg, PA
Author:  Justin Mengel
Categories: 
Locomotives:  RDG 103(NW2) RDG 485(RS3) RDG 702(DS44-1000) RDG 900(FP7A)
Views:  734   Comments: 0
RDG 485
Title:  RDG 485
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/21/2011  Upload Date: 5/25/2011 11:58:07 AM
Location:  Hamburg, PA
Author:  Greg Wiltsie
Categories: 
Locomotives:  RDG 485(RS3)
Views:  313   Comments: 0
Former Reading RS3 485
Title:  Former Reading RS3 485
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/27/2014  Upload Date: 8/8/2014 1:04:34 PM
Location:  Hamburg, PA
Author:  Dan Davis
Categories: 
Locomotives:  RDG 485(RS3)
Views:  221   Comments: 0
RDG 485
Title:  RDG 485
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/21/2014  Upload Date: 11/20/2014 7:33:40 PM
Location:  South Hamburg, PA
Author:  G Gerard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  RDG 485(RS3)
Views:  238   Comments: 0
RDG 485
Title:  RDG 485
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/9/2014  Upload Date: 8/10/2014 6:44:47 PM
Location:  Hamburg, PA
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  RDG 485(RS3)
Views:  227   Comments: 2
RDG 485
Title:  RDG 485
Description:  The Reading Railroad Heritage Museum has one of the last remaining Reading Company Alco RS-3 locomotives, built in 1952 at the plant in Schenectady, NY. Originally assigned to the Reading's Rutherford yard near Harrisburg to replace steam, this locomotive worked diligently in freight service before being retired from the railroad's roster in 1973 and sold up north to a company in Montreal, Canada. The unit was acquired by the RCT&HS from a private leasing company in 1993. It last worked as a switcher for Domtar Packaging of Red Rock, Ontario as their number 68. Seen still wearing the faded Domtar paint scheme.
Photo Date:  9/21/2014  Upload Date: 2/10/2015 1:12:40 AM
Location:  Hamburg, PA
Author:  Paul Koprowski
Categories: 
Locomotives:  RDG 485(RS3)
Views:  645   Comments: 0
RDG 485
Title:  RDG 485
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/22/2019  Upload Date: 7/10/2023 11:30:16 AM
Location:  Hamburg, PA
Author:  Matt Petersen
Categories: 
Locomotives:  RDG 485(RS3)
Views:  49   Comments: 0
RDG 485 & Ian
Title:  RDG 485 & Ian
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/15/2022  Upload Date: 10/15/2022 7:50:16 PM
Location:  Hamburg, PA
Author:  Kevin Painter
Categories: 
Locomotives:  RDG 485(RS3)
Views:  83   Comments: 0
RDG 485 & GTW 1675
Title:  RDG 485 & GTW 1675
Description:  A front to cab shot of RDG 485 and GTW1675 behind it. RDG 485 Model Alco RS3, Built as RDG 485, Build date June 1952, Serial# 79944, order# 20793, Frame/prime mover# 12811, source; http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/locopicture.aspx?id= 45782, http://www.readingrailroad.org/roster/roster_loco485.html, http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2718185
Photo Date:  11/11/2023  Upload Date: 7/9/2024 8:30:53 PM
Location:  Hamburg, PA
Author:  Steve Coraggio
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Winter,Yard
Locomotives:  RDG 485(RS3)
Views:  55   Comments: 2


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