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Reading Lines Tugs 11 years 4 weeks ago #1167

Rick Abramson OFFLINE Fireman Posts: 58 Thank you received: 1	By all means, post your tug's progress. Rail/maritime modeling is an area that is really overlooked. Rick
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Reading Lines Tugs 11 years 4 weeks ago #1169

Gary L OFFLINE Apprentice Posts: 9 Thank you received: 4	The Reading had 3 tugs in the Philadelphia area... Brabdywine, Delaware and Schuylkill. There were also 3 tugs based at Port Reading. The Shamokin was one, but I don't remember the other two. The Port Reading tugs were bigger the ones in Philly and served New York harbor. Gary L.
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Reading Lines Tugs 11 years 4 days ago #1322

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Reading had 8 Diesel tugs.

The based in NY Harbor were the Tamaqua, Shamokin & Pottsville. All 3 were 110' long, 25'6" wide and 12' deep. Power was a Fairbanks Morse 10 38D 8 1/8th, 1600HP. The tugs were designed by Thomas Bowes and built in 1951 in Camden by RTC Shipbuilding. All three survive. The Tamaqua is in South America as the "Chassidy", the Shamokin is in Camden owned by Express Marine as there "Russel B. Murray" and is forsale, and the Pottsville is in Panama as the "Valviria".

The Philly area had 4 tugs (one was for Wilmington), the Lehigh, Schuylkill, Delaware & Brandywine. The 4 tugs were also designed by Bowes and built by RTC in 1954. They were 92'9" long, 25' wide and 11'6" deep. Power was an FM 6-38D 8 1/8th, 960HP.

The Lehigh (owned by the B&O for awhile) is in Mexico, the Schuylkill was last the "Blue B" and is in an unknown location, the Delaware is in Chester PA as Hays's Big Daddy (100% original) and the Brandywine is in Boston as the Brandywine.

Frenchman River did a very nice kit of the 4 smaller boats. All the above are very different then the Walthers kit, which was designed after the 4 original Lehigh Valley tugs (Cornell, Lehigh, Hazelton and Wilkes Barre), which were Joe Hack boats, with GM propulsion. Erie and New Haven had very similiar tugs to these, but they had significant differences then the Walthers kit as well.

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