by Keith MacCauley
S-6 OSR 500 was built by Alco for the Southern Pacific Railway in November of 1956 as SP 1073. Renumbered SP 1240, the end cab unit would be acquired by Vancouver Wharves in 1980, renumbered VWL 29, and serve her second owner until 1996. Ontario Southland would acquire the venerable unit in the spring of 1997 and decorate it in their attractive maroon and cream scheme shortly thereafter. Further to toiling away for some two decades in south western Ontario, the venerable unit was set aside and has been stored at OSR’s Salford maintenance facility ever since. Unlike MLW built S-3/S-13 cousins, No. 500 is unlikely to be sold off. Still equipped with solid/friction bearing trucks, the Alco built switcher would not be welcomed by any interchange railway.
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