Jon Ruesch photo.

I never heard of this, ever. Large engines like this didn't become common until the WPS Power Plant at Weston came on-line in 1980-1981. By that time, the Federal Government had plowed our tax dollar$ into fixing up the Valley Line's track from New Lisbon ro Wausau to allow heavier engines like these.

In 1973, this kind of power on the Valley was unheard of! The trip up to Wausau and back couldn't have been made very fast in deference to the track conditions in spots, like Necedah. "Oy-vay" is the only thing I can say here.

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There were retirements as time went on and at least three of the RS3's that were not retrucked were sent off to scrap before 1971.

RS3's were common power on the Valley until 1975 in both versions, with original trucks and re-trucked.

This is classic Wausau; the Home-made Sand Tower; Alco's and F Units, the diesel fuel tanks behind. To the left about two blocks is the Famed Wausau Depot, festooned on every TV set in America as the corporate symbol for Wausau Insurance. Only the Station remains, everything in this photograph no longer exists.

The Soo depot here served as the office for both the Soo and the Milwaukee. It was a twin to the Station located at the crossing of the Soo Line and the Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic at Trout Lake, Michigan.

If memory serves, Milwaukee began retiring minority make power in April 1975.