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| Author: | bobyar2001 [ Tue Jan 03, 2006 3:20 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Reading 1187 |
No date or place, but apparently before sale to the iron company at Birdsboro in 1946: http://abpr.railfan.net/abprphoto.cgi?j ... dg1187.jpg |
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| Author: | Alan S. Levy [ Wed Jan 04, 2006 5:28 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Reading 1187 |
Bob, Looks like it could be Allentown Yard. I remember sitting on a road behind and a little above the yard to watch them hump cars. Just a guess, anyone else? |
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| Author: | Walter [ Wed Jan 04, 2006 11:11 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Reading 1187 |
Alan, I don't think this is Allentown Yard. The background doesn't look right. It could be nearby, though, at East Penn Junction. The lack of landmarks makes it really tough to tell, though. Perhaps an email to the poster might help figure out the location, although you'd think that info would have been added to the photo caption if it was known. -Walter |
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| Author: | tomgears [ Wed Jan 04, 2006 12:40 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Is it really SRC #4? |
I remember hearing somewhere that it was always thought that SRC #4 and RDG 1187 were one in the same but lacking hard proof. Is this the case or is that just another crazy rumor flying around? Thanks, |
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| Author: | EDM [ Wed Jan 04, 2006 6:50 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Is it really SRC #4? |
One and the same. SRC kept the CF&I number. |
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| Author: | Schuylkill Valley [ Thu Jan 05, 2006 2:06 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Is it really SRC #4? |
That might be a Rutherford yard near Harrisburg, Pa. That was own by the Reading Co. Len. |
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| Author: | tim o'm [ Thu Jan 05, 2006 7:24 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Reading 1187 |
I'm no Reading expert, but it seems the tender is up against another steam engine tender, and it might be very late in its career, as though sitting on the dead line. I don't know of the Reading working the hump in Allentown, since it was a CNJ yard. Since the road rises rather steeply in the background, my guess would place the yard as St. Clair yard, and the road would be Highway 61. Nothing of the yard exists now, to my knowledge, and I may have the yard location wrong, but that's my guess. Almost all of the coal territory looks like this. |
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