Talk:ALCO RS-3m

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Bit of a stretch...[edit]

They only had two, lol.

"The Chicago and North Western Railway had a fleet of RS-3ms that were rebuilt using ALCO components. These feature long hoods from ALCO RS-11 road switchers." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:6000:A645:2100:F533:440A:FEB1:9C4A (talk) 01:50, 9 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Addressed in recent edit. FullScale4Me (talk) 20:48, 7 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Reference failed verification[edit]

FullScale4Me I marked a reference as "failed verification" because it is a book from 1996 that was being used to verify the statement "as of 2018, the locomotive is out of service." For obvious reasons, this reference could never possibly support that statement. I do in fact own the book and while it does state the Housatonic owns the locomotive, it does not give any information as to its status (and again, this book is from 1996). Trainsandotherthings (talk) 02:14, 8 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for spotting that. I removed the citation and will endeavor to utilize my Google Fu to find where I'd seen that 2018 date. It's out there somewhere! Book worth buying?

Overly detailed[edit]

Point taken. One section moved to my sandbox to fix wordiness and get better/more citations. Another section trimmed down to ~30% of original. Thanks for the help guys! FullScale4Me (talk) 03:36, 8 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]