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Share Your Prototype Photos 11 years 3 weeks ago #684

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Okay, let's share our prototype photos. Note to all and Tom. If you don't want them saved for the Reading Modeler album leave a note. Otherwise, Tom feel free to keep for posterity.
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Here is Reading 446 approaching the Joanna Station in January, 1973, leading 447 and 449.
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Share Your Prototype Photos 11 years 3 weeks ago #688

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Here's a second shot in the same sequence....
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From Grace Mine to Joanna was a steady downgrade run. The train is coasting with 3 RS-3's at an idle.
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Share Your Prototype Photos 11 years 3 weeks ago #705

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Staying with a Grace Mine theme...

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Share Your Prototype Photos 11 years 3 weeks ago #734

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Okay, someone produce this model in O, S, HO or N scale.
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Birdsboro, PA - July 4, 1976.
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Share Your Prototype Photos 11 years 3 weeks ago #738

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These are some photos from the Conrail era, mostly taken with an Argus, 126 instamatic camera, during a Summer day in 1978 or so, when the Black Rock Tunnel was closed due to track work. I took the train from Philly to Pottsville, as it was the longest trip out of Philly on SEPTA's ex-Reading lines at the time. I passed on Bethlehem, as it was only 78 miles, and I figured less likely to be abandoned. 'Oh well.' I was about 15 at the time. We used to spend a week at my Grandmother's rowhouse in Philly, as part of the back-to-school, summer vacation experience.
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Schuykill Haven yards, west of the station. Wanted a photo of the billboard boxcar.

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Rounding the curve at Port Clinton.

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Passing thru West Leesport.

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South of West Leesport, end of the tangent.

The conductor on the run between Reading and Pottsville saw I had a camera, and allowed me to stand in the rear vistabule of the RDC. He's probably passed way at this point, as he was an older gentleman, but I still remember his kindness to 'a curious kid,' all these years later.
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Share Your Prototype Photos 11 years 3 weeks ago #739

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Pictures taken, again with the Argus 126, during a trip to the Reading outlets, with my parents and brother and sister, probably about the Summer of
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Got to love the old bilboard, and cars.
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This wasn't taken on the same trip, but is a photo of the Delaware River Viaduct, near West Trenton, and over Rt. 29, from the same period. It was very unusual to see a train on it, on our way back and forth to my Grandmother's from northern NJ, in this period.



1979.

The RDC stopped to let someone off, I think around Pike St.
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