Blasting Out Of The Shadows - Take 2
About 20 minutes aftert the protect diesels passed it was show time as the steam double header charged into sight leading a 19 car sold out train of some 800 passengers headed back to North Reading from Jim Thorpe with the third modern day reborn 'Reading Ramble' of the season.
Leading the way is Reading and Northern 4-8-4 number 2102 which returned to service this year after a more than three decade slumber. Built in the Reading Company's own shops in 1945 the stout T-1 was doubled headed for one trip only with long time steam star 425. Trailing behind her in the shadows is the lmost two decades older number 425, a the high-drivered 4-6-2 light Pacific which was built by Baldwin in 1928 for the Gulf, Mobile & Northern.
To learn more about these locomotives check out the RBMN's pages on them here: www.rbmnrr-passenger.com/2102-updates
Here they are popping out of the shadows to swing around the curve as they head south (compass west) across the causeway along Greenwood Lake at MP 110 as they climb Hometown Hill on the modern day Reading and Northern's Reading Division mainline. This is former Central Railroad of New Jersey iron having been built in 1870 as Nesquehoning Valley Railroad Company.
Rush Township, Pennsylvania
Saturday August 13, 2022
Blasting Out Of The Shadows - Take 2
About 20 minutes aftert the protect diesels passed it was show time as the steam double header charged into sight leading a 19 car sold out train of some 800 passengers headed back to North Reading from Jim Thorpe with the third modern day reborn 'Reading Ramble' of the season.
Leading the way is Reading and Northern 4-8-4 number 2102 which returned to service this year after a more than three decade slumber. Built in the Reading Company's own shops in 1945 the stout T-1 was doubled headed for one trip only with long time steam star 425. Trailing behind her in the shadows is the lmost two decades older number 425, a the high-drivered 4-6-2 light Pacific which was built by Baldwin in 1928 for the Gulf, Mobile & Northern.
To learn more about these locomotives check out the RBMN's pages on them here: www.rbmnrr-passenger.com/2102-updates
Here they are popping out of the shadows to swing around the curve as they head south (compass west) across the causeway along Greenwood Lake at MP 110 as they climb Hometown Hill on the modern day Reading and Northern's Reading Division mainline. This is former Central Railroad of New Jersey iron having been built in 1870 as Nesquehoning Valley Railroad Company.
Rush Township, Pennsylvania
Saturday August 13, 2022