{"id":4790,"date":"2026-04-26T11:20:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T16:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=4790"},"modified":"2026-04-26T12:38:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T17:38:25","slug":"servicing-loam-rs1-1107","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2026\/04\/26\/servicing-loam-rs1-1107\/","title":{"rendered":"Servicing LOAM RS1 #1107"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Looking through Ron Findley\u2019s collection, I came across a few photo prints of three of the ALCO model RS1 locomotives that the Louisiana Midland Railway owned during its <em>final<\/em> life. Shown below is the #1107, a former Gulf, Mobile and Ohio locomotive of the same number. It appears that a crew member is adding water to the unit&#8217;s radiator via the top filler during its servicing routine. The photographer noted that the engine had overheated while pulling 54 cars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Servicing-LOAM-1107.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"707\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Servicing-LOAM-1107.jpg\" alt=\"LOAM RS1 #1107\" class=\"wp-image-4789\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Servicing-LOAM-1107.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Servicing-LOAM-1107-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Servicing-LOAM-1107-768x603.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Servicing-LOAM-1107-382x300.jpg 382w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>She had been acquired in 1974, and I understand that she led a rather short life on the road due to an engine failure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photographed by <em>Louis Saillard<\/em> in July of 1975. Thanks to <em>Tony Howe<\/em> for providing this, and other information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking through Ron Findley\u2019s collection, I came across a few photo prints of three of the ALCO model RS1 locomotives that the Louisiana Midland Railway owned during its final life. Shown below is the #1107, a former Gulf, Mobile and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2026\/04\/26\/servicing-loam-rs1-1107\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos-i-like","category-railfanning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4790"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4799,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4790\/revisions\/4799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}