R&N selling selection of passenger equipment

robertjohndavis · **Joined:** Mon Aug 23, 2004 8:10 am **Posts:** 2499

http://www.readingnorthern.com/material_equipment_sales.shtml

tomgears · **Posted:** Mon Jan 18, 2010 3:56 pm

It looks like some of the former Rail Tours Inc equipment. I'm sure other folks here might know more about the equipment. The bottom two look like former Reading cars and at least one DLW MU trailer car.

Alexander D. Mitchell IV · **Posted:** Mon Jan 18, 2010 4:38 pm

Quick search reveals the ex-PC car:

http://www.jefflubchanskycpa.com/PC2704 ... 3DG355.jpg

27043 Pullman heavyweight Pullman, September 1929
Former Pullman Traffic Club. Constructed in Pullman lot # 6274 to Plan #3989A, 8-section, buffet-lounge-sleeper car. Sold to the Pennsylvania Railroad in 12/1948 as #7008. Car withdrawn by Pullman lease and stored in September 1957. Assigned to M-O-W service by PRR, interior fixtures stripped and car painted yellow, number #492388 assigned in June 1959. Ownership transferred to Penn Central as #27043 on February 1, 1968, and to Conrail April 1, 1976. Purchased by RTI in March 1977 for $3150.00. Transferred from Hollidaysburg to Jim Thorpe 1977. Stored in Jim Thorpe, Pa.

51 Baggage-express Standard Steel Car Co., Hammond, IN, February 18, 1925 72’ 5”
Originally Reading Company class CVl steel baggage-coach No. 425. Converted on October 20, 1953 by RDG into baggage-express configuration as class BAa No. 1756. Purchased by RTI (with No. 1755) for $3759.00 at St. Clair, Pa., on November 2, 1963. Shipped from St. Clair to New Hope, Pa., May 29, 1964; to York, 1967. Ex-RTI #2. Used as tool car for No. 1098 in Jim Thorpe, Pa. Ex-RTI #2. Weight: 70 tons.

1309 Steel coach Pullman-Standard, 1930 72’ 5”
Former Central Railroad of New Jersey steel 76-seat commuter coach No. 1309. Purchased by RTI from New Jersey Transit in 1984.

I think this is the information for the combine we see, and this number is either a renumbering or a typo:
515 Coach-baggage Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, June 1919 72' 2”
Reading Company class CVj 51-seat combination car No. 515. Original cost new $ 14,537.94. Retired by Reading Co. in July 1963. Purchased by RTI for $1250.00 on May 21, 1964 and renumbered RTI #5 in October 1972. Purchased without seats. Shipped from St. Clair, Pa. to New Hope to York, September 1, 1964. Leased to Red Clay Valley Equipment & Leasing, Wilmington, DE , and moved off M&P 1/15/1969; returned to RTI in 1971[?] at Jim Thorpe, Pa. Currently in use.