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Gordon Pa. Schuylkill County 11 years 2 months ago #785

rdgraildog OFFLINE Fireman Posts: 59 Thank you received: 2	Chris, the ice cream shop was Rickard's Dairy on Hobart St. I lived over the next street Mcknight in a compamy house which was a double house right near Fifteen track which is now Universal Forest Products siding. Todd Shoffler Carlisle Pa.
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Hall Signals 11 years 2 months ago #799

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Well, since this merited a separate thread on Gordon, does anyone have a track plan of the service facility there? Since I can't build a layout, I've been tossing around the idea of building a diorama where I can display my Reading steam as I build them. I've narrowed it down to building a scale "false front" of the Reading Shops and modelling the yard in front of them, or modelling the engine house and some of the surrounding trackage in Gordon, since my eventual layout will be the Shamokin Division from Gordon as far as is reasonable in either direction (at least as far as St. Nicholas Breaker to the east, and Locust Summit to the west.) Of course the Reading Shop diorama justifies my #1251 being there.

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Gordon Pa. Schuylkill County 11 years 2 months ago #800

JoannaBill OFFLINE Road Foreman of Engines Posts: 422 Thank you received: 63	There was one on good, old Ebay. It might still be there.
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Gordon Pa. Schuylkill County 11 years 2 months ago #817

Wowak OFFLINE Engineer Posts: 101 Thank you received: 8	I saw those in a Google image search. The auction was over, though.
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Gordon Pa. Schuylkill County 11 years 2 months ago #818

Rob OFFLINE Road Foreman of Engines Posts: 393 Thank you received: 57	Check RCT&HS Bee Line 1995 issue # 2 for an article on Gordon. Also an article in Model Railroader September 1958, pages 32 to 34, including a track plan.
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Gordon Pa. Schuylkill County 11 years 2 months ago #821

Rob OFFLINE Road Foreman of Engines Posts: 393 Thank you received: 57	Another "diorama" idea would be a turntable/roundhouse/coaling facility like Reading, Rutherford, or St.CLair.
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September 6, 1945

#2100, the first T-1 4-8-4 steam locomotive, is outshopped at Reading.

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