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Reading "Big Dutch Mike" |
| Description: |
A Reading M1sa "Big Dutch Mike" leads an Autumn afternoon westbound on the "platform track" as seen from Camp Meeting Avenue overpass. It's a good bet that this freight stopped to do work at pesticide maker Goulard & Olena. Reading's Big Dutch Mikes were Baldwin products (except for the class engine, #1700, from the Reading shops). CKF lived in nearby Blawenburg at the time and would ride his bike to the Skillman depot or get a ride from his mom, who worked at Skillman & Skillman Realty. |
| Photo Date: |
9/1/1947 Upload Date: 11/20/2008 10:21:29 AM |
| Location: |
Skillman, NJ |
| Author: |
Charles Knox Freericks |
| Categories: |
Steam |
| Locomotives: |
RDG 170X(2-8-2) |
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1481 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Reading M1sa Antracite Mike #1705 |
| Description: |
The Reading had a fleet of 57 Mikes, numbered from 1700 to 1756. #1700 was built by the Reading Shops. The rest were built by Baldwin. Here, CKF has caught #1705 stopped at the water spout in Skillman. "Mikado" meant "Emperor of Japan," and the name came from the first such locomotives being built for Japan by Baldwin. Note the Wooten Firebox. Apperently these were all off the roster very soon after, by 1948. |
| Photo Date: |
1/29/1947 Upload Date: 1/31/2008 12:28:20 AM |
| Location: |
Skillman, NJ |
| Author: |
Charles Knox Freericks |
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| Locomotives: |
RDG 1705(2-8-2) |
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2028 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
RDG 2-8-2 #1712 |
| Description: |
Orignially built as M-1 class with 61.5" drivers and 24"x32" cylinders, these Mikados nicknamed by the Reading shops as "Big Dutch Mikes" were rebuilt in 1924 & again in 1943 changing cylinder size and driving wheel diameters during the process and reclassified as an M-1sa class. All were scrapped by the late 1940's. C.W. Jernstrom photo |
| Photo Date: |
10/17/1946 Upload Date: 5/26/2014 6:36:09 AM |
| Location: |
Communipaw, NJ |
| Author: |
Gary Everhart |
| Categories: |
Roster,Steam,Action |
| Locomotives: |
RDG 1712(2-8-2) |
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550 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
RDG 2-8-2 #1714 |
| Description: |
Here is another example of a Baldwin built Mikado, this one built in 12/1915, as an M-1 class loco with 61.5" drivers and 24"x32" cylinders.Nickname "Big Dutch Mikes" by the Reading shops, they were rebuilt in 1924 & again in 1943 changing cylinder size and driving wheel diameters during the process and reclassified as an M-1sa class. All were scrapped by the late 1940's. Joseph Schick photo. |
| Photo Date: |
11/17/1946 Upload Date: 5/26/2014 6:36:18 AM |
| Location: |
Philadelphia, PA |
| Author: |
Gary Everhart |
| Categories: |
Roster,Steam,Action |
| Locomotives: |
RDG 1714(2-8-2) |
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449 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
RDG 2-8-2 #1718 - Reading |
| Description: |
Standing in the Reading engine terminal is RDG 2-8-2 Mikado #1718 built by Baldwin in November of 1915 (serial #42684). The loco was later rebuilt by the Reading shops during the WWII years between 1941-43 to a class M-1sa. It lasted until retirement in December of 1949 when diesels arrived on the scene. A note on the back by photographer Alton E. Bowers states " RDG Co. #1718 (2-8-2) class M-1-21 with tender booster at engine terminal, Reading, PA." Rebuilt specs - 61.5" drivers, 215 psi boiler pressure, 25x32" cylinders, engine weight of 334,425 lb, tractive effort of 62,200 lb. |
| Photo Date: |
12/1/1931 Upload Date: 6/9/2022 6:39:20 AM |
| Location: |
Reading, PA |
| Author: |
Gary Everhart |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard,Steam |
| Locomotives: |
RDG 1718(2-8-2) |
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135 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Reading M1sa Antracite Mike #1724 |
| Description: |
Reading M1sa #1724, a 1912 era Mikado, takes on water at the Skillman water spout. The Reading rostered 57 of these units, built by both Baldwin and the Reading itself. CKF referred to them as "typical Reading freight locomotives" in his notes of the time. Sadly, none of these survive. We are on the New York Branch of the Philadelphia Division, a bike ride away from CKF's home at the time in Blawenburg NJ. |
| Photo Date: |
1/22/1947 Upload Date: 1/30/2008 11:03:33 AM |
| Location: |
Skillman, NJ |
| Author: |
Charles Knox Freericks |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
RDG 1724(2-8-2) |
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2612 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
RDG 2-8-2 #1727 - Reading Co |
| Description: |
Beefy workhorse is this Baldwin 2-8-2 Mikado built in January of 1916 as RDG #1727. Specs - serial #42799, M1-sb class, 55" drivers, 215 psi boiler pressure, 24x32" cylinders, engine weight of 332,225 lb, tractive effort of 60,693 lb. All of the M1 classes were gone by1950. No photographer listed for the photo. |
| Photo Date: |
11/26/1948 Upload Date: 3/2/2020 9:14:09 AM |
| Location: |
Communipaw, NJ |
| Author: |
Gary Everhart |
| Categories: |
Roster,Steam |
| Locomotives: |
RDG 1727(2-8-2) |
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262 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
RDG 2-8-2 #1730 - Reading Co |
| Description: |
Rugged Baldwin 2-8-2 Mikado delivered to Reading Co as #1730 in January of 1916 sits in the Tamaqua,PA, Arlington Yard. Specs - serial #42823, M1-sb class, 55" drivers, 215 psi boiler pressure, 24x32" cylinders, engine weight of 332,225 lb, tractive effort of 60,693 lb. All of the M1 classes were gone by1950. Bert Pennypacker photo |
| Photo Date: |
6/28/1948 Upload Date: 3/2/2020 9:14:14 AM |
| Location: |
Tamaqua, PA |
| Author: |
Gary Everhart |
| Categories: |
Roster,Steam |
| Locomotives: |
RDG 1730(2-8-2) |
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376 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
RDG2-8-2 # 1733 - Reading |
| Description: |
Built by Baldwin in February of 1916, RDG 2-8-2 Mikado #1733 (serial #42906) sits with a head of steam in the St Clair, PA yard. The loco was later rebuilt by the Reading shops in June of 1942 and lasted on the roster until retirement in December of 1949. Rebuilt specs - 61.5" drivers, 225psi boiler pressure, 25x32" cylinders, engine weight of 334,425 lb, tractive effort of 62,200 lb. Alton E. Bowers photo |
| Photo Date: |
4/9/1931 Upload Date: 6/9/2022 6:39:34 AM |
| Location: |
St. Clair, PA |
| Author: |
Gary Everhart |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard,Steam |
| Locomotives: |
RDG 1733(2-8-2) |
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122 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
RDG 2-8-2 #1734 Wreck - Reading Co |
| Description: |
This is one of 3 photos documenting an accident involving Reading 2-8-2 #1734 and an unknown locomotive with a number ending in 011. No information was given on the photos so date and location are "guess-timations." If anyone has info on this accident, i would appreciate hearing about it so I can update these photos. |
| Photo Date: |
6/1/1935 Upload Date: 7/27/2016 11:55:41 AM |
| Location: |
Unknown, PA |
| Author: |
Gary Everhart |
| Categories: |
Roster,Steam,Wreck |
| Locomotives: |
RDG 1734(2-8-2) |
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392 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
RDG 2-8-2 #1736 - Reading Co |
| Description: |
Sitting in an unidentified yard with a head of steam built up is this Baldwin 2-8-2 Mikado, RDG #1736. It was delivered to the Reading in February of 1916. Specs - serial #42939, M1-sb class, 55" drivers, 215 psi boiler pressure, 24x32" cylinders, engine weight of 332,225 lb, tractive effort of 60,693 lb. All of the M1 classes were gone by1950. No actual location, date or photographer was listed for the photo. |
| Photo Date: |
6/1/1948 Upload Date: 3/2/2020 9:14:20 AM |
| Location: |
Unknown, PA |
| Author: |
Gary Everhart |
| Categories: |
Roster,Steam |
| Locomotives: |
RDG 1736(2-8-2) |
| Views: |
376 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
RDG 2-8-2 #1752 |
| Description: |
Originally built in 1916 by Baldwin Locomotive Works with 55.5" drivers, it was later rebuilt to M1-sa standards including 61.5" drivers. The Mikado could produce 215 psi of boiler pressure for its 24"32" cylinders and could produce a respectable tractive effort of 60,693 lb. Charles A. Elston photo |
| Photo Date: |
4/12/1947 Upload Date: 5/26/2014 6:36:23 AM |
| Location: |
Allentown, PA |
| Author: |
Gary Everhart |
| Categories: |
Roster,Steam,Action |
| Locomotives: |
RDG 1752(2-8-2) |
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1141 Comments: 2 |
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