An alert reader has called to my attention an error in the RyPN obituary for Ed Striegal.

Contrary to what I wrote, Ed never owned the Reading 0-6-0 shop switcher 1251. It was prchased directly from the Reading Co. by George M. Hart immediately following its retirement from
service.

Mr. Hart used the engine on the Ma and Pa out of York during the 60s. When Eamons transportation purchased the Ma and Pa, George lost his operating rights there, and he sold the engine to the Strasburg, from which it went to the RRM of Pa.

My correspondent also notes that 1251, though built at Reading in 1918, used the frame and machinery from an 1888 2-8-0 camelback, so it is one old machine! It's nicely displayed today beside several PRR switch engines in RRM of Pa's Railroader's Hall.


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Actually, George M. Hart ceased running his Rail Tours trains on a regular schedule on the M&P in May of 1967, and ran his last fan trip, to Peach Bottom for the NRHS, in November 1969, while the railroad was still under the thumb of President Phillip L. Poe. Emons took over the operation later, in 1971. George's departure from the property in 1971 did not so much coincide with the change of Ma & Pa management, as it did with getting a better offer from the CNJ to relocate to Jim Thorpe.

GMH bought Reading #1251 on July 3, 1964 for $3,225.55. It was built on the frame of an old Reading Co. class I-2. She last ran in October 1966, and was subsequently sold to the PHMC for the planned RR Museum of PA on May 15, 1968.

> An alert reader has called to my attention
> an error in the RyPN obituary for Ed
> Striegal.

> Contrary to what I wrote, Ed never owned the
> Reading 0-6-0 shop switcher 1251. It was
> prchased directly from the Reading Co. by
> George M. Hart immediately following its
> retirement from
> service.

> Mr. Hart used the engine on the Ma and Pa
> out of York during the 60s. When Eamons
> transportation purchased the Ma and Pa,
> George lost his operating rights there, and
> he sold the engine to the Strasburg, from
> which it went to the RRM of Pa.

> My correspondent also notes that 1251,
> though built at Reading in 1918, used the
> frame and machinery from an 1888 2-8-0
> camelback, so it is one old machine! It's
> nicely displayed today beside several PRR
> switch engines in RRM of Pa's Railroader's
> Hall.


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