Norfolk_Western_611@hotmail.com

Norfolk_Western_611@hotmail.com

> Although the restoration is moving slowly,
> it is still moving, not hardly aborted.

> You can see #113 in the soft-cover
> "Steam on the Anthracite Roads" by
> Mike Eagleson. C.N.J. sold #113 to the
> Reading Anthracite Company who used her to
> shift their trackage at the Locust Summit
> Central Breaker near Ashland, PA. The
> breaker shut down in (I think it was) 1956.

> #113 sat there derelict until she was
> donated and moved to the Wilmington &
> Western around 1982. Then, around 1991 when
> W.&W. was "thinning" their
> collection, the 113 was purchased by the
> Kimmels and moved to a siding next to the
> Minersville PA station, which the Kimmels
> have also restored. This is ironically, just
> down the track about a mile from the Reading
> Anthracite Company's "New Saint
> Nick" Breaker! (same company, still
> diggin' after all these years).

> Bob Kimmel has had great luck in rounding up
> many of the 113's parts which
> "disappeared" while she sat
> outside for almost 25 years, such as bell,
> number plate, gauges, even some of the
> rods!!
> And although the job is moving slowly, he
> has high hopes of putting her back in steam
> !

> B-T-W: I'm still looking for leads (see top
> of this thread).

This was a Jersy Central steam engine and the last JC to operate.