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Owner: Chicago South Shore And South Bend
Model:Alco-GE R-2 BoxcabBuilt As:NYC 314 (R-2 Boxcab)
Serial Number:68242Order No:GE #11165
Frame Number:Built:0/1930
Notes:Alco/GE ex-NYC 314 reblt 1955
Other locos with this serial:  CSS 702(R-2 Boxcab)
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CSS&SB Alco-GE 702
Title:  CSS&SB Alco-GE 702
Description:  CSS&SB Alco-GE 702 at Michigan City, Indiana on October 23, 1965, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Number 702 was built in 1931 by Alco-GE for the NYC as C-C class R-2 314 (c/n's Alco 68242, GE 11165) for the West Side (NYC) freight electrification. When the NYC dieselized that line, the R-2's became surplus, and the South Shore purchased 10 of the units (at a cost of $9,000.00 each), overhauled and rewired eight of them (at a cost of $88,248.00 each). They were converted from NYC's 600 volt DC to the South Shore's 1500 volt DC system and became road #'s 700-707. This unit was put into service in 1955, weighed 140 tons, and developed 3000 horsepower. The pantographs, compressors, motor blowers, and series-parallel switches were from former Cleveland Union Terminal 700 class locomotives, also built by Alco-GE for the NYC. The South Shore's 700 series locomotives were all retired in 1975.
Photo Date:  10/23/1965  Upload Date: 10/13/2010 11:12:04 AM
Location:  Michigan City, IN
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CSS 702(R-2 Boxcab)
Views:  748   Comments: 1
CSS&SB 702
Title:  CSS&SB 702
Description:  Tightly cropped from a larger image
Photo Date:  3/30/1969  Upload Date: 6/3/2015 9:47:56 PM
Location:  Michigan City, IN
Author:  Robert Farkas
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CSS 702(R-2 Boxcab)
Views:  345   Comments: 2
CSS 702 & 701 - Chicago South Shore & South Bend
Title:  CSS 702 & 701 - Chicago South Shore & South Bend
Description:  Nice pair of ex-NYC Alco R-2 electric units adopted by the Chicago South Shore for their electrified line sitting idle at the Michigan City shops area. CSS #702 with a C-C wheel arrangement was built by Alco in February of 1931 as NYC #314 while CSS #701 was built in December of 1930 as NYC #308. No photographer listed.
Photo Date:  8/1/1969  Upload Date: 9/7/2015 5:35:00 AM
Location:  Michigan City, IN
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  CSS 702(R-2 Boxcab) CSS 701(R-2 Boxcab)
Views:  524   Comments: 0
CSS&SB R-2 #702
Title:  CSS&SB R-2 #702
Description:  CSS&SB R-2 #702, built by ALCo/GE in 1930 as NYC #314, to CSS&SB, rebuilt in 1955, retired in 1975, at shop
Photo Date:  8/19/1971  Upload Date: 7/9/2020 1:21:57 PM
Location:  Michigan City, IN
Author:  Gerard Putz
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CSS 702(R-2 Boxcab)
Views:  244   Comments: 0
CSS 702
Title:  CSS 702
Description:  Photo by Tom Golden
Photo Date:  4/1/1973  Upload Date: 6/4/2009 2:10:29 PM
Location:  Hammond, IN
Author:  Ryan Kertis
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSS 702(R-2 Boxcab)
Views:  667   Comments: 1
South Shore Boxcabs #701 & #702
Title:  South Shore Boxcabs #701 & #702
Description:  Digital image from Kim E. Piersol original 35mm Kodachrome transparency. CSS&SB Burnham Yard.
Photo Date:  3/1/1974  Upload Date: 7/7/2006 1:58:46 PM
Location:  Burnham, IL
Author:  Kim Piersol
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSS 701(R-2 Boxcab) CSS 702(R-2 Boxcab)
Views:  1600   Comments: 2
CSS 702
Title:  CSS 702
Description:  CSS 702
Photo Date:  7/9/1974  Upload Date: 4/28/2011 7:42:36 AM
Location:  Gary, IN
Author:  Tim Vermande
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSS 702(R-2 Boxcab)
Views:  590   Comments: 1
Retired CSS&SB CC #702
Title:  Retired CSS&SB CC #702
Description:  sold for scrap 4/15/76
Photo Date:  3/26/1976  Upload Date: 11/5/2020 8:45:37 PM
Location:  Michigan City, IN
Author:  Gerard Putz
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CSS 702(R-2 Boxcab)
Views:  172   Comments: 0
CSS 702
Title:  CSS 702
Description:  CSS 702, in the scrapyard
Photo Date:  7/8/1976  Upload Date: 1/1/2017 10:01:53 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  J Fischer
Categories:  Roster,Wreck
Locomotives:  CSS 702(R-2 Boxcab)
Views:  406   Comments: 0


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