Another version of the story (and a caution to new lines) is that some of the property under the tracks was to revert to the pre-Pickering Valley owners if the railroad "stopped". The lawyer (and probably some neighbors) successfully claimed that the change from Reading Company to Valley Forge Scenic triggered this reversion.

You'd have to know what you were looking at to find it, but there's a photo of the 425 at Phoenixville on e-bay right now at:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 85605&rd=1

I have no stake in the sale, just happened to run across it.

Dave Crosby

Dose any one remember No. 425 running on the V.F.S. besides my self?
I have a friend named Howard Clevenstine that has 16mm film of 425 running there.

Len