2124 in '61

bobyar2001 · **Posted:** Sat Oct 23, 2004 10:46 pm

Reading 4-8-4 on one of the Reading Rambles in 1961. Anyone recognize the location?

http://abpr.railfan.net/abprphoto.cgi?n ... 110-rs.jpg

tomgears · **Posted:** Sat Oct 23, 2004 11:07 pm

I can't help myself.... My guess is somewhere in Pennsylvania. Sorry, I could not control my fingers on the keyboard.

Tom

Bruce Manwiller · **Joined:** Mon Aug 23, 2004 12:25 pm **Posts:** 41

I'd guess Shamokin.

Huge black mound in background; October trips went to West Milton via Catawissa Branch with F-units between Shamokin and West Milton account T-1 power not permitted on Catawissa Branch. T-1 power went from Shamokin to West Milton via Locust Summit to take the Ramble consist back to Reading.

Wowak · **Posted:** Sun Oct 24, 2004 10:33 am

Appears to be Shamokin to me as well.

G. W. Laepple · **Joined:** Mon Aug 23, 2004 5:10 pm **Posts:** 1182

Almost nothing shown in this photo exists today. The railroad is a single track now, used occasionally by regional Shamokin Valley RR to interchange with the Reading & Northern. Interesting to note that Friday marked the 40th anniversary of the final Iron Horse Ramble, which ran from Wayne Jct. (Philadephia) to West Milton. How time flies.....I was a 17-year old high school kid then. Now I'm an old, bald fat guy. Geez....

Alexander D. Mitchell IV · **Posted:** Sun Oct 24, 2004 3:55 pm

Hey, Wayne, I think the culm bank still exists, doesn't it?

<;-)

Alexander D. Mitchell IV
who has equally aghast thoughts about riding behind PRR E8's around the Horseshoe Curve and riding over the Reading's Gettysburg branch behind 2102--in long-ago, far-off, 1987!
"Those were the days, my friend, we thought they'd never end......"

Bruce Manwiller · **Joined:** Mon Aug 23, 2004 12:25 pm **Posts:** 41

"How time flies.....I was a 17-year old high school kid then. Now I'm an old, bald fat guy. Geez...."

Ditto.

Phil Mulligan · **Joined:** Mon Aug 23, 2004 10:07 am **Posts:** 218

It does look like Shamokin. Red flag in coupler and eccentric rod above center indicates engine has turned on the Gordon wye and is backing, probably to West Milton, while the Ramble is on the Catawissa Branch behind FP-7's.

Shamokin had a working water column so they are probably servicing the engine there. 2124 will load water there also on the return run with the train.

Phil Mulligan · **Joined:** Mon Aug 23, 2004 10:07 am **Posts:** 218

I should add today, 10-25-2004, is the 45th anniversary of the first Iron Horse Ramble, from Wayne Junction to Shamokin.

It was probably 2124's first visit to Shamokin as well, although the T-1's were designed to go there. That trip, 2124 turned on the Shamokin wye with the flanges greased and much wheelwatching. It might have been the only time a T-1 ever turned there as they used the bigger wye at Gordon later.

Phil Mulligan · **Joined:** Mon Aug 23, 2004 10:07 am **Posts:** 218

Did I say eccentric rod? I meant the radius rod was above center in the link, indicating reverse.