Eastern Railroad Discussion > H19 with Reading Company dining car.

NS train H19 westbound on the Columbia Branch a few miles west of Lancaster, PA., today, July 3, heading to Enola.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 07/03/15 10:19 by PRR5757.

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Is that dining car the one the Reading Company Technical & Historical Society has been working on for the last year to get moved from Strasburg to their Hamburg museum?

Greg

Here it is at Columbia.

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Yup

The car is Reading Company #1189 streamlined in 1948 for use on the KING COAL between Philly and Shamokin, PA.  The name King Coal was once on the car side.  Later the car was used on the Crusader and named as such after the stainless steel train was sold.  The Crusader was a Philly to New York (Jersey City) train.  The RCT&HS has been working on this car for years to get it to move.  We were origionally going to move it by truck untill we found that it was too heavy. Thanks to Paul Payne and his crew of RCT&HS volunteers.  Thanks to the Railroad Museum of PA, the Strasburg Railroad, Chuck Jensen and Norfolk Southern. 

Greg2102 Wrote:
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> Is that dining car the one the Reading Company
> Technical & Historical Society has been working on
> for the last year to get moved from Strasburg to
> their Hamburg museum?
>
> Greg

Good thing they are a historical group as that assumes a free move.  Otherwise, it's BIG $$$ to move a passenger car on NS these days.