Eastern Railroad Discussion > New arrival on the Allentown & Auburn this past weekend.

Hi all,
this past weekend amists the Easter Bunny runs for the Allentown & Auburn a new arrival showed up to the line via a Low boy flat bed truck. It is a classic former Reading Company "Northeast Style Caboose " . It is in the Reading Green & Yellow paint scheme. Here are a few pics of it as well as Shots of some easter bunny runs from saturday.All shots in kutztown, Pa
Jim.
Pic 1 arrival at the Yoder Siding for off loading in Kutztown, PA
pic 2,&3 different views of the caboose. As you can see it was built in April of 48. That makes her 68 years old.



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pic 4 another shot of the caboose.
pic 4 the interior of the waiting room of the historic Kutztown, PA train station.
pic 5 the Easter train doing a reverse move into Kutztown Station

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Pic 7 Crew members Frank Garone, Brendon Bartollata and Conductor Nate Haydt .
Pic 8 the Easter Bunny and crew member Kevin Utz at the restored Conrail Caboose.
Pic 9 Engineer and A&A company president Mike Bast getting off the Restored SW 206 in Kutztown, PA.
Jim
 



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Outstanding collection of veteran equipment. Nice photos too.

The "new" Reading caboose on the line looks terrific.  Couple it to the Pennsy N8 and 'create' a modern day version of the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines!  My references indicate the caboose came from Renovo to Cressona PA then to Jim Thorpe.  Has it been anywhere else in between?
jb

Gotta say, you Gentlemen have quite an operation coming together out there, one of my favorite lines to visit!!!
Ed K.

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From what I understand it was down in south Jersey at a private location. The owner of the hack plans to have it return to the original Reading Company red with a black roof and white lettering.
Jim


boejoe Wrote





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> The "new" Reading caboose on the line looks
> terrific.  Couple it to the Pennsy N8 and
> 'create' a modern day version of the
> Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines!  My
> references indicate the caboose came from Renovo
> to Cressona PA then to Jim Thorpe.  Has it been
> anywhere else in between?
> jb

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Nice set of pics.  How does caboose get from trailer to rails? Crane?

Personally, I prefer the yellow and green.  Still, nice addition to the railroad. 

Nice coverage Jim. 

Whats the number on that B&O I 12 thats in the photos ?

GRS

VFPNSFAN Wrote:
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> Nice set of pics.  How does caboose get from
> trailer to rails? Crane?

They get the car off the trailer by un-hooking the trailer from the tractor. It lays onto the ground and they run rails from the trailer to the actual railroad. Then the locomotive with a spacer car backs up onto the trailer and couples up to the caboose. Then they pull it off the trailer onto the railroad. A friend of mine posted pictures of the operation on facebook. If you do facebook look up Brandon Bartolotta.  https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1296318213718625&set=rpd.100000213757284&type=3&theater
Jim

OCtrainguy Wrote:
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> Personally, I prefer the yellow and green.
>  Still, nice addition to the railroad. 

Well you know the old pa Dutch saying. "When the little red house comes the train is all" Jim

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Thanks for the survey.  Looks like you folks are building a mighty fine railroad