| A Reading relief train lead by an I-8 class 2-8-0 probably #1588; one of 177 class I-8a through I-8d built by Baldwin and Reading (the last road freight camelbacks built). The class (1501 through 1617) was built between 1905 and 1914. , all of which were off the roster by 1948. It is followed by a flat car, an idler car, a wrecker (maybe one of Reading's 150 ton Bucyrus wreckers), another idler car, a tool car (made from a milk car), and a dining and bunk car (made from an old coach). The wrecker was based at Reading's Erie Avenue Freight Engine Terminal near 4th Street & Erie Avenues in North Philadelphia. |