Where I got my information

Here is a list of people that helped me to gather all information present at this time (alfabetically):
I modified all addresses to avoid spam. Three letters and horizontal lines need to be replaced by a wellknown character for mail-addresses...

Clint Chamberlin, HARRIS SEMICONDUCTOR, Mountaintop, PA.
John Combs, Johns Alaska Railroad page.
Shane G. Deemer. Department of Logistics, Ft. Hood. He has a nice page on DoD locomotives.
Curtis Fortenberry, Photographer of unit 1818 in Alaska.
Thomas Hentschel, a German rail enthousiast who is also interested in the EMD MRS-1 1818's history.
Randy Houk, member on EMD MRS-1 #1820 restauration project (see below) at the San Diego Railroad Museum
George Loughery, TDY at Ft. Eustis, and owner of the Web-pages of the USarmy Museum of Transportation at Ft. Eustis.
Tom Lundeen, railroad enthousiast, Palatine, IL
Tim Moriarty, Serving for the USarmy Railway, and railroad enthousiast.
Dick Morris, The Museum of Alaska Transportation and Industry
John W. Nelsen, Archivist at The ALCo Collections.
Michael Patrick (VA), another MRS-1 enthousiast.
Larry Russell, "The Locomotive Newsmagazine".
Lewis E. Wolfgang, San Diego Railroad Museum
Bob Yost, Alaska Railroad engineer and railfan.
Chris Zeitvogel

Information specific for the Alco MRS-1 units was provided by:

Todd Johnson
Bill Swindell
James L. McDaniel, MD
Steve Spisak of the Bluegrass Railroad Museum
Sean Read of the White River Scenic RR Inc.
Chris Zeitvogel
Randy Mower (website)
Bart Nadeau, Chair - Archives department (BAERA/WRM) of the Western Railway Museum
Mike Hart/Steve Rolle, unofficial site of Sierra Railroad - California's Golden Shortline / Railtown 1897.
Bret Haines.
Ron Goldfeder of the Museum of Transportation, St. Louis, Missouri

Textual References:

Except for the many Email contacts, I had some 'paper data' available also (some of which I got from my E-mail correspondents, for which I thank them very much):

• TM 55-1275-2, Department of the Army Technical Manual for Electromotive Model MRS-1, Department of the Army, october 1953
• William V. Niedrich, The last of the Sixteen Hundreds, REPORT (official publication of the Pacific Southwest Railway Museum Association, operating the San Diego Railroad Museum and the SD&A Railway), No. 239, Jan-Feb 1993. This article gives the overall history of these units (see above) and the detailed information on unit 1820 (donated by Randy Houk).
• Max Delie, NMBS diesels, published by Blanchard & Cie. Brussels, 1994. In this book, I found the specific data concerning the Belgian duties of the unit 1818 and both pictures of Bruno Dedonker.
• Der Yankee vor dem Blauen Enzian, article in MIBA 11/1986. This article has all the data on the German adventure of unit 1818. (donated by Thomas Hentschel)
• Dan Dover, Alaska Railroad, Extra 2200 South, may 1984 (issue 80), p18-26 (donated by Thomas Hentschel)
• Motive Power News, Extra 2200 South (issue 83), p6 (donated by Thomas Hentschel)
• Kriegskinder, Eisenbahn magazin 11/95, p48-50. This article shows a picture of 1818 in Germany, near Laufach. (donated by Thomas Hentschel)
• David Lustig, The EMD MRS-1, Rail Classics, 5/4, july 1976, p28-33. This article contains history and pictures of the EMD MRS-1 units. (donated by Randy Houk)
• Hugo de Bot, Bert van Reems, Les locomotives NoHAB/AFB locomotieven, published by De Bataafsche Leeuw, Amsterdam, 1989. (Copies of relevant pages donated by the NMBS)
• Max Delie, De eerste lijndiesel op de Belgische sporen, Spoorwegjournaal 17 (1988), p27.
• R. Tourret, Allied Military Locomotives of the Second World War. Tourret Publishing, 1995 (the article on the Alco RSD-1 served as a base for that page)
• Louis A. Marre, Diesel Locomotives: the first 50 years, Kalmbach Publishing, 1995 (some info on the RSD-1 units, and some low-res scans of photo's)

If you know of other pictures of these machines, or you know more about them, especially the information concerning No.1818, please let me know. I would be very gratefull.

Stefan Nicolaļ (stef -at- thisdomain)