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 Post subject: Re: Reading Saucon Roundhouse
PostPosted: Fri Feb 05, 2016 8:33 pm 

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Wow, this saddens me greatly. When we had Q&E #4 housed there, I spent many a pleasant hour working on Ol' Slobberface, sometimes into the late hours of the night.
We had a great base of volunteers who toiled tirelessly to keep the engine on the road.
When I learned today of the roundhouse's demise, I called Francis Ede (Q&E Pres.) to give him the news, he said, "he was surprised it lasted this long". Francis, who is 90, now lives in a nursing home.

Don Fenstermacher

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 Post subject: Re: Reading Saucon Roundhouse
PostPosted: Sun Feb 07, 2016 1:55 pm 

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I went by the facility last night. Then engine house is still standing. Looks the same as it has for past few years. It's in sad shape but still there.


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 Post subject: Re: Reading Saucon Roundhouse
PostPosted: Sun Mar 06, 2016 10:07 pm 

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Although it is aging about as gracefully as Lindsay Lohan, it still stands as of this morning. Behold!.....


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 Post subject: Re: Reading Saucon Roundhouse
PostPosted: Mon Mar 14, 2016 5:07 pm 

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Pictures I took when I was about 12 of the 2101 being transformed from AFT #1 to Chessie Steam Special. The Roundhouse is a short distance from where I use to live.

Jim Gress


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