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A Reading Modeling Tale 7 years 11 months ago #5349

tomjacobs OFFLINE Superintendent Posts: 177 Thank you received: 37	OK, I need to know the story behind those two photos, Rob...
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A Reading Modeling Tale 7 years 11 months ago #5350

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Well then these should intrigue you as well.
A stray 40-2 (Yanos) at Altopass

And the rarely seen RCT&HS Business Car led by G-3 #219 (Steve Gilbert) also made an inspection tour of the Midland Road on 26 FEB 1989
First observed exiting Tunnel #2 at Glady, VA on the WM near the WM-AM interchange.

North Durbin

and also at Big Springs Jct.

Not much of a story. As a prelude to a couple operating sessions on the AM, Steve, Greg and I made a visit to the Allegheny Midland way back when. At that time I was planning a 1985 oriented version of the Reading, but tired of it when everyone else jumped on the band wagon, thus Greg and I were working on a fleet of appropriate motive power.

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A Reading Modeling Tale 7 years 11 months ago #5355

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Very Cool! I never got to see the AM live, and I have yet to see Tony Koester's NKP (or Harold Werthwein's Erie, for that matter), but these are great photos.

With Athearn's announcement of the GP39-2's, I've been going back and forth about moving my era forward to 1974. Problem is, a set of GP40-2's for the Joanna Turn is proving very hard to find. Plus, then I'd need a whole bunch of "RDG" boxcars, different hoppers, etc. I think I'll just stick to 1970, especially since an examination of the Herald King "Share In Freedom" boxcar decal set shows a date of 3-70. So I can have one on the layout! Yeah, that's the ticket!

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