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12/25/2024
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Rio Valley Switching Company
Model:EMD GP9Built As:CO 6210 (GP9)
Serial Number:23369Order No:5542
Frame Number:5542-2Built:6/1957
Notes:ex-KRR 901, blt as C&O 6210
Other locos with this serial:  KRR 901(GP9) CO 6210(GP9) RVSC 4101(GP9) SSRX 4101(GP9) MH 4101(GP9)
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RVSC Power
Title:  RVSC Power
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/31/2003  Upload Date: 9/12/2016 8:17:09 AM
Location:  McAllen, TX
Author:  Randy Curlin
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  RVSC 1233(SW1200) RVSC 4101(GP9) RVSC 4105(GP7)
Views:  444   Comments: 2
RVSC Power
Title:  RVSC Power
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/31/2003  Upload Date: 9/12/2016 8:17:12 AM
Location:  McAllen, TX
Author:  Randy Curlin
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  RVSC 4101(GP9) RVSC 4105(GP7)
Views:  446   Comments: 2
RVSC 4101
Title:  RVSC 4101
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/31/2003  Upload Date: 10/9/2016 11:27:40 AM
Location:  McAllen, TX
Author:  Randy Curlin
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  RVSC 4101(GP9)
Views:  217   Comments: 0
RVSC Power
Title:  RVSC Power
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/31/2003  Upload Date: 10/9/2016 11:27:43 AM
Location:  McAllen, TX
Author:  Randy Curlin
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  RVSC 4101(GP9) RVSC 4105(GP7)
Views:  317   Comments: 0
RVSC Power
Title:  RVSC Power
Description:  ex KRR 901 and 905
Photo Date:  5/31/2003  Upload Date: 10/10/2016 10:29:47 PM
Location:  McAllen, TX
Author:  Randy Curlin
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  RVSC 4101(GP9) RVSC 4105(GP7)
Views:  315   Comments: 3
RVSC Power
Title:  RVSC Power
Description:  RVSC McAllen Yard in 2003
Photo Date:  5/31/2003  Upload Date: 10/10/2016 10:30:36 PM
Location:  McAllen, TX
Author:  Randy Curlin
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  RVSC 1705(GP16) RVSC 4103(GP9) RVSC 4105(GP7) RVSC 4101(GP9) RVSC 4159(GP7)
Views:  597   Comments: 5
RVSC Power
Title:  RVSC Power
Description:  RVSC McAllen Yard in 2003
Photo Date:  5/31/2003  Upload Date: 10/10/2016 10:30:40 PM
Location:  McAllen, TX
Author:  Randy Curlin
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  RVSC 1705(GP16) RVSC 4159(GP7) RVSC 4101(GP9) RVSC 4103(GP9)
Views:  488   Comments: 4
RVSC Power
Title:  RVSC Power
Description:  acquired from KRR in 2003
Photo Date:  5/31/2003  Upload Date: 10/10/2016 10:30:43 PM
Location:  McAllen, TX
Author:  Randy Curlin
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  RVSC 4103(GP9) RVSC 4101(GP9) RVSC 4105(GP7)
Views:  526   Comments: 4
RVSC Light Engines
Title:  RVSC Light Engines
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/24/2003  Upload Date: 3/12/2016 12:03:50 PM
Location:  Alamo, TX
Author:  Randy Curlin
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  RVSC 4101(GP9)
Views:  299   Comments: 0
RVSC Light Engines
Title:  RVSC Light Engines
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/24/2003  Upload Date: 3/12/2016 12:03:54 PM
Location:  Alamo, TX
Author:  Randy Curlin
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  RVSC 4101(GP9)
Views:  337   Comments: 0
RVSC Light Engines
Title:  RVSC Light Engines
Description:  A most unusual movement on the RVSC. Heading east without any cars.
Photo Date:  6/24/2003  Upload Date: 3/12/2016 12:03:59 PM
Location:  Alamo, TX
Author:  Randy Curlin
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  RVSC 4101(GP9)
Views:  321   Comments: 1
Alamo TX
Title:  Alamo TX
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/24/2003  Upload Date: 3/12/2016 12:04:13 PM
Location:  Alamo, TX
Author:  Randy Curlin
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  RVSC 4101(GP9)
Views:  271   Comments: 0
Alamo TX
Title:  Alamo TX
Description:  Crest Fruit Co was once a major shipper of citrus. The x-ing in the distance was the site of a horrible train-truck collision in which 34 farm workers lost their lives in 1940.
Photo Date:  6/24/2003  Upload Date: 3/12/2016 12:04:17 PM
Location:  Alamo, TX
Author:  Randy Curlin
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  RVSC 4101(GP9)
Views:  429   Comments: 0
RVSC Light Engines
Title:  RVSC Light Engines
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/24/2003  Upload Date: 3/12/2016 12:04:30 PM
Location:  McAllen, TX
Author:  Randy Curlin
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  RVSC 4101(GP9)
Views:  255   Comments: 0
RVSC Light Engines
Title:  RVSC Light Engines
Description:  The property was eventually sold to a church; which is occupying the lot as of 2016.
Photo Date:  6/24/2003  Upload Date: 3/12/2016 12:04:33 PM
Location:  McAllen, TX
Author:  Randy Curlin
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  RVSC 4101(GP9)
Views:  312   Comments: 0
RVSC Light Engines
Title:  RVSC Light Engines
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/24/2003  Upload Date: 3/12/2016 12:04:37 PM
Location:  McAllen, TX
Author:  Randy Curlin
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  RVSC 4101(GP9)
Views:  290   Comments: 1
McAllen TX
Title:  McAllen TX
Description:  Looks a little funny splitting the buildings
Photo Date:  6/24/2003  Upload Date: 3/12/2016 12:04:43 PM
Location:  McAllen, TX
Author:  Randy Curlin
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  RVSC 4101(GP9)
Views:  275   Comments: 1
RVSC Power
Title:  RVSC Power
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/24/2003  Upload Date: 3/12/2016 12:04:46 PM
Location:  McAllen, TX
Author:  Randy Curlin
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  RVSC 4101(GP9)
Views:  302   Comments: 2
RVSC flagging the xing
Title:  RVSC flagging the xing
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/24/2003  Upload Date: 3/12/2016 12:04:50 PM
Location:  McAllen, TX
Author:  Randy Curlin
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  RVSC 4101(GP9)
Views:  292   Comments: 1
RVSC flagging the xing
Title:  RVSC flagging the xing
Description:  A very friendly worker
Photo Date:  6/24/2003  Upload Date: 3/12/2016 12:04:53 PM
Location:  McAllen, TX
Author:  Randy Curlin
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  RVSC 4101(GP9)
Views:  294   Comments: 0
RVSC Light Engines
Title:  RVSC Light Engines
Description:  Coming off the SP-MP connector track
Photo Date:  6/24/2003  Upload Date: 3/12/2016 12:05:03 PM
Location:  McAllen, TX
Author:  Randy Curlin
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  RVSC 4101(GP9)
Views:  263   Comments: 0
RVSC Light Engines
Title:  RVSC Light Engines
Description:  Coming off the SP-MP connector track
Photo Date:  6/24/2003  Upload Date: 3/12/2016 12:05:06 PM
Location:  McAllen, TX
Author:  Randy Curlin
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  RVSC 4101(GP9)
Views:  268   Comments: 0
RVSC Light Engines
Title:  RVSC Light Engines
Description:  This switch was used so frequently that it became one of the first ones to be upgraded. It now has an easy to throw mechanism with modern target.
Photo Date:  6/24/2003  Upload Date: 3/12/2016 12:05:09 PM
Location:  McAllen, TX
Author:  Randy Curlin
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  RVSC 4101(GP9)
Views:  274   Comments: 0
RVSC Light Engines
Title:  RVSC Light Engines
Description:  All set to head east
Photo Date:  6/24/2003  Upload Date: 3/12/2016 12:05:12 PM
Location:  McAllen, TX
Author:  Randy Curlin
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  RVSC 4101(GP9)
Views:  252   Comments: 0
McColl Siding
Title:  McColl Siding
Description:  Within the city limit of McAllen; there once were packing sheds for citrus. Later more modern cold storage warehouses moved north to be closer to Hwy 281 for trucks. The last active shipper was loading scrap paper to recycling plants in Mexico. UP was not very thrilled with routing it to San Antonio back through Laredo. So UP added additional tariffs to kill it. Here RVSC passes the remains of the packing house.
Photo Date:  6/24/2003  Upload Date: 3/12/2016 12:05:16 PM
Location:  McAllen, TX
Author:  Randy Curlin
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  RVSC 4101(GP9)
Views:  262   Comments: 0
McColl siding
Title:  McColl siding
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/24/2003  Upload Date: 3/12/2016 12:05:25 PM
Location:  McAllen, TX
Author:  Randy Curlin
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  RVSC 4101(GP9)
Views:  266   Comments: 0
Pharr TX
Title:  Pharr TX
Description:  RVSC light engines are passing the onion shed of Elmore & Stahl. This packing shed received major damage from a fire in 2016.
Photo Date:  6/24/2003  Upload Date: 3/12/2016 12:05:29 PM
Location:  Pharr, TX
Author:  Randy Curlin
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  RVSC 4101(GP9)
Views:  268   Comments: 0
RVSC Light Engines
Title:  RVSC Light Engines
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/24/2003  Upload Date: 3/12/2016 12:05:33 PM
Location:  Pharr, TX
Author:  Randy Curlin
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  RVSC 4101(GP9)
Views:  282   Comments: 1
RVSC Light Engines
Title:  RVSC Light Engines
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/24/2003  Upload Date: 3/12/2016 12:05:44 PM
Location:  Pharr, TX
Author:  Randy Curlin
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  RVSC 4101(GP9)
Views:  243   Comments: 0
Pharr TX
Title:  Pharr TX
Description:  Fuel depot once received tankers from railroad. This is the only railroad telegraph pole left standing between Harlingen and McAllen.
Photo Date:  6/24/2003  Upload Date: 3/12/2016 12:05:49 PM
Location:  Pharr, TX
Author:  Randy Curlin
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  RVSC 4101(GP9)
Views:  235   Comments: 0
RVSC Pharr Flyer
Title:  RVSC Pharr Flyer
Description:  When traffic was heavy, RVSC would operate a clean up train that would run ahead of the hauler. The flyer would pull empty cars from spurs. Then when the hauler arrived , the spur was already clear to drop off the loaded cars.
Photo Date:  6/25/2003  Upload Date: 3/12/2016 1:28:00 PM
Location:  McAllen, TX
Author:  Randy Curlin
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  RVSC 4101(GP9)
Views:  254   Comments: 1
RVSC Pharr Flyer
Title:  RVSC Pharr Flyer
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/25/2003  Upload Date: 3/12/2016 1:28:04 PM
Location:  McAllen, TX
Author:  Randy Curlin
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  RVSC 4101(GP9)
Views:  241   Comments: 0
RVSC Pharr Flyer
Title:  RVSC Pharr Flyer
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/25/2003  Upload Date: 3/12/2016 1:28:11 PM
Location:  McAllen, TX
Author:  Randy Curlin
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  RVSC 4101(GP9)
Views:  237   Comments: 0
RVSC and the Fire
Title:  RVSC and the Fire
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/26/2003  Upload Date: 3/13/2016 12:18:50 PM
Location:  McAllen, TX
Author:  Randy Curlin
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  RVSC 4101(GP9)
Views:  246   Comments: 0
RVSC and the Fire
Title:  RVSC and the Fire
Description:  McAllen FD is beginning to put out the fire. The color of the smoke is changing.
Photo Date:  6/26/2003  Upload Date: 3/13/2016 12:18:53 PM
Location:  McAllen, TX
Author:  Randy Curlin
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  RVSC 4101(GP9)
Views:  254   Comments: 1
RVSC and the Fire
Title:  RVSC and the Fire
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/26/2003  Upload Date: 3/13/2016 12:18:57 PM
Location:  McAllen, TX
Author:  Randy Curlin
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  RVSC 4101(GP9) RVSC 1749(GP7)
Views:  283   Comments: 1
RVSC and the Fire
Title:  RVSC and the Fire
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/26/2003  Upload Date: 3/13/2016 12:19:03 PM
Location:  McAllen, TX
Author:  Randy Curlin
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  RVSC 4101(GP9) RVSC 1749(GP7)
Views:  272   Comments: 0
RVSC McAllen Hauler
Title:  RVSC McAllen Hauler
Description:  Crossing Main St with an elevated view provided by a parking garage which was once the site of the Mo-Pac Depot.
Photo Date:  6/27/2003  Upload Date: 3/13/2016 1:50:04 PM
Location:  McAllen, TX
Author:  Randy Curlin
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  RVSC 4101(GP9) RVSC 4159(GP7)
Views:  233   Comments: 1
RVSC McAllen Hauler
Title:  RVSC McAllen Hauler
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/27/2003  Upload Date: 3/13/2016 1:50:17 PM
Location:  McAllen, TX
Author:  Randy Curlin
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  RVSC 4101(GP9)
Views:  178   Comments: 0
RVSC McAllen Hauler
Title:  RVSC McAllen Hauler
Description:  About to switch The Monitor (local newspaper)
Photo Date:  6/27/2003  Upload Date: 3/13/2016 1:50:21 PM
Location:  McAllen, TX
Author:  Randy Curlin
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  RVSC 4101(GP9) RVSC 4159(GP7) RVSC 1749(GP7)
Views:  187   Comments: 0
RVSC McAllen Hauler
Title:  RVSC McAllen Hauler
Description:  About to switch The Monitor (local newspaper)
Photo Date:  6/27/2003  Upload Date: 3/13/2016 1:50:24 PM
Location:  McAllen, TX
Author:  Randy Curlin
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  RVSC 4101(GP9) RVSC 4159(GP7) RVSC 1749(GP7)
Views:  203   Comments: 0
RVSC McAllen Hauler
Title:  RVSC McAllen Hauler
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/27/2003  Upload Date: 3/13/2016 1:50:27 PM
Location:  McAllen, TX
Author:  Randy Curlin
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  RVSC 4101(GP9) RVSC 4159(GP7)
Views:  185   Comments: 0
RVSC McAllen Hauler
Title:  RVSC McAllen Hauler
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/27/2003  Upload Date: 3/13/2016 1:50:36 PM
Location:  McAllen, TX
Author:  Randy Curlin
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  RVSC 4101(GP9) RVSC 4159(GP7)
Views:  184   Comments: 0
RVSC Switching the Pharr Team Tracks
Title:  RVSC Switching the Pharr Team Tracks
Description:  Cutting off the power to pull an empty
Photo Date:  6/27/2003  Upload Date: 3/13/2016 3:55:49 PM
Location:  Pharr, TX
Author:  Randy Curlin
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  RVSC 4101(GP9) RVSC 4159(GP7) RVSC 1749(GP7)
Views:  207   Comments: 0
RVSC Switching the Pharr Team Tracks
Title:  RVSC Switching the Pharr Team Tracks
Description:  Backing down to grab the bulkhead flatcar
Photo Date:  6/27/2003  Upload Date: 3/13/2016 3:55:52 PM
Location:  Pharr, TX
Author:  Randy Curlin
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  RVSC 4101(GP9) RVSC 4159(GP7) RVSC 1749(GP7)
Views:  233   Comments: 0
RVSC Switching the Pharr Team Tracks
Title:  RVSC Switching the Pharr Team Tracks
Description:  Backing down to grab the bulkhead flatcar
Photo Date:  6/27/2003  Upload Date: 3/13/2016 3:55:56 PM
Location:  Pharr, TX
Author:  Randy Curlin
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  RVSC 4101(GP9) RVSC 4159(GP7) RVSC 1749(GP7)
Views:  311   Comments: 0
RVSC Switching the Pharr Team Tracks
Title:  RVSC Switching the Pharr Team Tracks
Description:  Making the joint
Photo Date:  6/27/2003  Upload Date: 3/13/2016 3:56:07 PM
Location:  Pharr, TX
Author:  Randy Curlin
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  RVSC 4101(GP9) RVSC 4159(GP7) RVSC 1749(GP7)
Views:  194   Comments: 0
RVSC McAllen Hauler
Title:  RVSC McAllen Hauler
Description:  Crossing Cage Blvd; I tried to be artsy-fartsy on this one. Later, I wondered why I didn't try to include the Bougainvilleas more often and I had forgotten about the Dec 2004 snow that wiped out a lot of plants. The city removed most of the flowers after the snow.
Photo Date:  6/27/2003  Upload Date: 3/13/2016 3:56:54 PM
Location:  Pharr, TX
Author:  Randy Curlin
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  RVSC 4101(GP9)
Views:  195   Comments: 2
RVSC Switching the Pharr Team Tracks
Title:  RVSC Switching the Pharr Team Tracks
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/27/2003  Upload Date: 3/13/2016 3:56:57 PM
Location:  Pharr, TX
Author:  Randy Curlin
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  RVSC 4101(GP9) RVSC 4159(GP7) RVSC 1749(GP7)
Views:  242   Comments: 0
RVSC Power
Title:  RVSC Power
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/2/2003  Upload Date: 4/18/2015 3:58:33 PM
Location:  McAllen, TX
Author:  Randy Curlin
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  RVSC 1233(SW1200) RVSC 4101(GP9)
Views:  294   Comments: 0


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