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What's the difference between a GP40-2 and GP39-2? What year did the Reading dieselize? How many tracks were in Rutherford Yard? This board focuses on a discussion of questions or issues concerning the "prototype" Reading Company and its predecessors. While the aim of this board is to serve as a resource for prototype information for modeling purposes, general discussion and sharing of knowledge is also encouraged.

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Share Your Prototype Photos 9 years 3 weeks ago #4321

MarkFJ OFFLINE Conductor Posts: 227 Thank you received: 39	Did you ever want a really good photo showing the exact placement of the rain gutter on “Old Ironsides II”? Well, this grab from eBay maybe what you’re looking for! Thanks,Mark
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Share Your Prototype Photos 9 years 2 weeks ago #4341

MarkFJ OFFLINE Conductor Posts: 227 Thank you received: 39	You can never have too much Reading power in a consist! Either a move of power or just a line up. Taking in 1966.
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Share Your Prototype Photos 9 years 1 week ago #4373

Casey OFFLINE Conductor Posts: 209 Thank you received: 57	Heres some RDC pictures that popped up on railpictures.net listed as Port Kennedy in 76' listed as Souderton PA in 74'
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Share Your Prototype Photos 9 years 1 week ago #4374

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Casey, the photo of Port Kennedy, in 1976 it was renamed Valley Forge Park,(probably right after the photo was taken) which it still remains today. Septa ran "Bicentennial shuttles" from Reading Terminal to here and the original Valley Forge station. that is when Septa purchased RDC's #9167-9171. the wooded area in the photo is now de-vegetated because it is a haz-mat site with buried chemicals from the chemical plant that was in the park, on the Port Kennedy branch. I remember about a year ago seeing warning signs posted all around the area. Butch Curll

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Share Your Prototype Photos 9 years 1 week ago #4378

WindsorSpring OFFLINE Engineer Posts: 94 Thank you received: 8	Is it likely the vantage point for the photo was the PA 23 bridge? It appears from Google Earth images that bridge no longer exists. Railpictures.net is a good source for photos; It has more photos of trains in the same setting, including many taken recently. When was this Port Kennedy station built?
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Share Your Prototype Photos 9 years 1 week ago #4379

t1nut OFFLINE Road Foreman of Engines Posts: 323 Thank you received: 55	the bridge over the tracks still exists.that is where the photo was taken from. the bridge over the river has been removed,and now Penndot is spending 3 million to rebuild a bridge over the river for hiking and biking traffic only.
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December 13, 1937

The Reading places the 5-car "Crusader" streamlined passenger trainset into Philadelphia-New York service. This train increases traffic on this line by 37% in 1938.

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