Helping Out
Providing protect power for the Reading Ramble trip on Saturday was the same two 'Fast Freight' painted units I saw leading NRFF on Thursday. RBMN 5018 and 5019 (both rebuilt SD50-2s acquired from CSXT and Jan. 1983 and Mar. 1984 as Seaboard System 8507 and 8550 respectively) followed the huge steam special north on the way to Jim Thorpe and then tied on to the rear to assist with turning the train set after deboarding nearly 800 passengers. The duo pulled the 19 cars and two steam locomotives north out of town and over the old CNJ bridge and then the whole thing reversed direction to cross the new bridge spinning the train. Now the two EMD's are leading the train through the new interlocking at Jim Thorpe Junction (MP 120.9 on the Reading and Northern''s Lehigh Division Mainline) headed back down the branch into town.
Nesquehoning, Pennsylvania
Saturday August 13, 2022
Helping Out
Providing protect power for the Reading Ramble trip on Saturday was the same two 'Fast Freight' painted units I saw leading NRFF on Thursday. RBMN 5018 and 5019 (both rebuilt SD50-2s acquired from CSXT and Jan. 1983 and Mar. 1984 as Seaboard System 8507 and 8550 respectively) followed the huge steam special north on the way to Jim Thorpe and then tied on to the rear to assist with turning the train set after deboarding nearly 800 passengers. The duo pulled the 19 cars and two steam locomotives north out of town and over the old CNJ bridge and then the whole thing reversed direction to cross the new bridge spinning the train. Now the two EMD's are leading the train through the new interlocking at Jim Thorpe Junction (MP 120.9 on the Reading and Northern''s Lehigh Division Mainline) headed back down the branch into town.
Nesquehoning, Pennsylvania
Saturday August 13, 2022