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The ALCO RS-3 is a 1,600 hp (1.2 MW), B-B diesel-electric locomotive manufactured from May 1950 to August 1956 by American Locomotive Company (ALCO) and its subsidiary Montreal Locomotive Works (MLW). A total of 1,418 were produced: 1,265 for American railroads, 98 for Canadian railroads, 48 for Brazilian railroads, and seven for Mexican railroads.
The ALCO RS-3m is a diesel-electric locomotive rebuilt from an ALCO RS-3 road switcher.These 98 locomotives were rebuilt to replace their original ALCO prime mover with the more reliable EMD 567B engine and fan assemblies taken from retired E8s. [1]
Green Man Brewery was started in 1997 in the brew pub Jack of the Wood in downtown Asheville. [2] Initially brewed in dairy tanks at the brewery's inception, the operations were relocated to a new brewery and connected taproom nicknamed "Dirty Jack's" [2] in 2005, located in the South Slope area of Downtown Asheville, Buxton Avenue. [1]
Green Man brewery was threatened with legal action by Monteith's Brewery over the use of Monteith's trade marked name 'Radler'. An application by the Society of Beer Advocates to have the brewery's Radler trademark revoked has been issued on the basis that the term Radler is an historic style of beer and can therefore not be owned.
The ALCO RS-2 is a 1,500–1,600 horsepower (1,100–1,200 kW) B-B diesel-electric locomotive built by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) from 1946 to 1950. ALCO introduced the model after World War II as an improvement on the ALCO RS-1. [2] Between 1946 and 1950, 377 examples of the RS-2 were built, primarily for American and Canadian ...
The ALCO RS-27 (specification DL-640) was a diesel-electric locomotive built by ALCO between December 1959 and October 1962.. Only 27 examples were manufactured. [1] With ALCO's introduction of the Century Series line in 1963, the C-424 (specification DL-640A) replaced the RS-27 in the builder's catalog.
The take-over and closure of King and Barnes left a gap in the Sussex market which was a factor in the expansion of the Dark Star brewery. [2] The 2002 change to beer taxation implemented by Gordon Brown, known as Progressive Beer Duty, halved the amount of duty for small brewers and helped Sussex's small brewers to expand. [2]
A spigot (or "spile") extracting syrup from a maple tree.. Like many such older terms, the word spile has other local meanings. For example: A wooden stake or fence post.; A tapper, [5] an implement used to tap any sort of tree (e.g., for birch sap, maple syrup, rubber tapping, or palm wine from a toddy palm).