ENGINE #4 HISTORY
Indiana Railway Museum Locomotive No.4
ALCO RS-1 built January 1947
This locomotive was built by the American Locomotive Company or ALCO in January 1947 for the Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railway (DSS&A) with the road number of 103. The locomotive would work for the DSS&A hauling freight from the upper peninsula of Michigan along the Lake Superior shoreline of Wisconsin to Duluth. In 1961 the DSS&A would be merged into the Soo Line Railroad, the locomotive would serve on the Soo Line until it was purchased by the Algiers, Winslow and Western (AWW) in 1965. The AWW would send the locomotives purchased from the Soo Line straight to Alco where they were rebuilt before going into service. The locomotive would receive its new road number, No. 4 from the AWW and would serve the surface mining operations in Pike County, Indiana. Locomotive 4 was purchased by the Indiana Railway Museum for use on passenger trains but would occasionally continue hauling freight for the Dubois County Railroad. In 2016 the Indiana Railway Museum would repaint 4 back into the red and black paint scheme of the Algiers, Winslow and Western to show off part of its heritage.
