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| Title: |
RDG 2-8-0 #706 - Philadelphia & Reading RR |
| Description: |
This is one of the earlier s-8-0 built by the Philadelphia & Reading shops in 1906 as a class I-2e. Date is approximate. |
| Photo Date: |
6/1/1933 Upload Date: 8/25/2013 12:48:57 PM |
| Location: |
Unknown, PA |
| Author: |
Gary Everhart |
| Categories: |
Roster,Steam,Action |
| Locomotives: |
RDG 706(2-8-0) |
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519 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
RDG 2-8-0 #939 Camelback - Philadelphia & Reading |
| Description: |
Here is an interesting looking camelback built by the Burnham, Wms & Co (Baldwin) back in 1887. Small 50" drivers and only producing 150 psi boiler pressure severly limited this loco's power. Most in this class were scrapped in the 'teens. The date is approximate. No photographer was listed for the photo. |
| Photo Date: |
6/1/1915 Upload Date: 12/31/2013 8:11:07 AM |
| Location: |
Pine Grove, PA |
| Author: |
Gary Everhart |
| Categories: |
Roster,Steam,Action |
| Locomotives: |
RDG 939(2-8-0) |
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1635 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
RDG 2-8-0 #946 Camelback - Philadelphia & Reading |
| Description: |
Here's a good looking 1888 Burnham, Wms & Co built camelback still ready to work. Most of these small driver, low boiler pressure camelbacks were scrapped in the 'teens but a few did last into the 1920's. The date is approximate. Forrest W. Trittenbach receives the photo credit. |
| Photo Date: |
6/1/1915 Upload Date: 12/31/2013 8:11:15 AM |
| Location: |
Saint Clair, PA |
| Author: |
Gary Everhart |
| Categories: |
Roster,Steam,Action |
| Locomotives: |
RDG 946(2-8-0) |
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642 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
RDG 2-8-0C #957 Reading Co |
| Description: |
Nice older b&w photo of the 1891 Bwrnham, Wms & Co (Baldwin predemessor) built 2-8-0 Consolidation camelback. No photographer or exact day in 1946 was listed for the photo. |
| Photo Date: |
6/1/1946 Upload Date: 11/10/2018 5:01:34 PM |
| Location: |
Locust Summit, PA |
| Author: |
Gary Everhart |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard,Steam |
| Locomotives: |
RDG 957(2-8-0) |
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220 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
RDG 2-8-0 #959 Camelback - Philadelphia & Reading |
| Description: |
The fireman stands ready and waiting for the engineer to signal. This is another good looking camelback - if you don't mind the "Beauty-and-the-Beast" appearance. Small 50.5" drivers and producing 175 psi boiler pressure with a tractive effort of only 22,399 lb limited its usefulness as the cars and trains grew in length and weight. The location listed on the back of the photo was Mine Hill Junction - not familiar with the area but think it is near Cressona. Can anyone verify this? No photographer was listed. |
| Photo Date: |
9/19/1937 Upload Date: 12/31/2013 8:11:30 AM |
| Location: |
Cressona, PA |
| Author: |
Gary Everhart |
| Categories: |
Roster,Steam,Action |
| Locomotives: |
RDG 959(2-8-0) |
| Views: |
784 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
RDG 2-8-0 #1064 - Philadelphia & Reading |
| Description: |
This 1900 Baldwin built Consolidation is typical - small 56" driving wheels and short stature. This is an example of the I7-d class locomotive. Date is approximate. No photographer listed. |
| Photo Date: |
1/6/1930 Upload Date: 12/31/2013 6:47:55 AM |
| Location: |
Pine Grove, PA |
| Author: |
Gary Everhart |
| Categories: |
Roster,Steam,Action |
| Locomotives: |
RDG 1064(2-8-0) |
| Views: |
785 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
O scale RDG 1518 |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
9/18/2021 Upload Date: 9/19/2021 9:11:12 PM |
| Location: |
Hamburg, PA |
| Author: |
Kevin Painter |
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| Locomotives: |
RDG 1518(2-8-0) |
| Views: |
154 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
RDG 2-8-0 #1540 - Philadelphia & Reading RR |
| Description: |
The "Mother Hubbard", camelback locomotive built by the Philadelphia & Reading shops sometime between 1905-1914 as a class I-8ac, hisses in the afternoon sun. Date and location are unknown |
| Photo Date: |
6/1/1933 Upload Date: 8/25/2013 12:48:22 PM |
| Location: |
Unknown, PA |
| Author: |
Gary Everhart |
| Categories: |
Roster,Steam,Action |
| Locomotives: |
RDG 1540(2-8-0) |
| Views: |
491 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
RDG 2-8-0C #1587- Reading Co |
| Description: |
Nice photo of the 1905 Baldwin built 2-8-0C Consolidation camelback, a class I8-a member, as it sits in the St Clair, PA, yard. Unknown photographer. |
| Photo Date: |
6/1/1938 Upload Date: 11/10/2018 5:02:44 PM |
| Location: |
St. Clair, PA |
| Author: |
Gary Everhart |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard,Steam |
| Locomotives: |
RDG 1587(2-8-0) |
| Views: |
265 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Reading "Mother Hubbard" or "Camelback" |
| Description: |
A Reading wreck train or "relief train" as Reading called them sits in a siding in Skillman. Reading No. 1588 was built as a Class I-8b 2-8-0 by the Reading itself in 1912. As built, it was configured pretty much as shown in the photos, with center cab, piston valves and Walschaerts valve gear. It was saturated as built, but was converted to superheat in 1919 and reclassified as an I-8sb. It was off the roster by 1948. To the right are two non-revenue cars. The further one from camera is rebuilt from a gondola while the closer is an old truss-rod coach. |
| Photo Date: |
1/22/1947 Upload Date: 11/24/2008 10:40:47 PM |
| Location: |
Skillman, NJ |
| Author: |
Charles Knox Freericks |
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| Locomotives: |
RDG 1588(2-8-0) |
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2043 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
RDG 2-8-0C #1588 - Philadelphia & Reading |
| Description: |
Nice example of a 1905 Baldwin built Consolidation camelback, a popular design on the Reading lines. This class, I8-b, was eventually superheadted and Nicholson thermic syphons were installed by the Reading Shops in 1912. Ray W. Buhrmaster photo |
| Photo Date: |
9/1/1948 Upload Date: 6/15/2015 5:27:43 AM |
| Location: |
Reading, PA |
| Author: |
Gary Everhart |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard,Steam |
| Locomotives: |
RDG 1588(2-8-0) |
| Views: |
402 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
"Railroads Of Wilmington," Page 19, 1949 |
| Description: |
Here is page two of a four-page camera study by R.H. Braun & W.P. Fisher entitled "Railroads Of Wilmington." It was published originally in the September 1949 issue of "Trains" magazine, page 19. Top Photo, Partial Caption: "A proud PRR K-4 Pacific accelerates the Norfolk-bound 'Del-Mar-Va Express' out of Wilmington for the Old Dominion State." Shown here is Pennsylvania Railroad engine #3733, a K-4S (4-6-2) "Pacific" built in Juniata during February of 1920 and retired in April of 1956. Bottom Photo, Partial Caption: "A wide-firebox Consolidation [#1673] brings the Reading's local freight to the Sixth Avenue Yard limit." |
| Photo Date: |
9/1/1949 Upload Date: 4/25/2022 7:48:32 AM |
| Location: |
Wilmington, DE |
| Author: |
Thomas C. Ayers |
| Categories: |
Yard,Steam,Signal,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
PRR 3733(4-6-2) RDG 1673(2-8-0) |
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197 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
RDG 2-8-0 #1908 - Philadelphia & Reading RR |
| Description: |
This 1922 Baldwin class I-9sb locomotive sits ready for a new job. No date or location was listed on this photo. |
| Photo Date: |
6/1/1933 Upload Date: 8/25/2013 12:48:35 PM |
| Location: |
Unknown, PA |
| Author: |
Gary Everhart |
| Categories: |
Roster,Steam,Action |
| Locomotives: |
RDG 1908(2-8-0) |
| Views: |
599 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Reading I10A At Fleetwood, pa |
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| Photo Date: |
1/30/1944 Upload Date: 2/1/2011 8:19:59 PM |
| Location: |
Fleetwood, PA |
| Author: |
jim schlegel |
| Categories: |
Steam |
| Locomotives: |
RDG 2004(2-8-0) |
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573 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
"Railroads Of Pennsylvania," Page 19, 1942 |
| Description: |
Here is page eight of a 22-page article by William Moedinger, Jr., entitled "Railroads Of Pennsylvania." It was published originally in the October 1942 issue of "Trains" magazine, page 19. Partial Caption: "When the Philadelphia & Reading was built in 1838, the 1931-foot Black Rock Tunnel was a major engineering project. The main line crosses to the north bank of the river as it leaves the tunnel, and proceeds upon its way to Reading and the anthracite mining districts around Pottsville and Mahoney City." |
| Photo Date: |
10/1/1942 Upload Date: 10/18/2019 12:36:37 PM |
| Location: |
Reading, PA |
| Author: |
Thomas C. Ayers |
| Categories: |
Tunnel,Bridge,Steam |
| Locomotives: |
RDG 2011(2-8-0) |
| Views: |
319 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
RDG 2-8-0 #2023 - Philadelphia & Reading RR |
| Description: |
This is an example of the 1923 class I-10sa built by Baldwin Locomotive Works for the Philadelphia & Reading RR with 61 1/2" drivers and developing 220 psi boiler pressure. Date is approximate. |
| Photo Date: |
6/1/1933 Upload Date: 8/25/2013 12:48:49 PM |
| Location: |
Unknown, PA |
| Author: |
Gary Everhart |
| Categories: |
Roster,Steam,Action |
| Locomotives: |
RDG 2023(2-8-0) |
| Views: |
721 Comments: 0 |
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