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Steam & Excursion > PRR in ReadingDate: 02/23/20 18:50 PRR in Reading Author: RDG630 PRR L1 locomotioves in West Reading, Pa 1951. The 2-8-2 Mikado's were the main stay of freight power on the PRR Schuylkill Valley Branch out of Philadelphia before dieselization. This land is now the RT 422 bypass.
  Date: 02/23/20 19:02 Re: PRR in Reading Author: wcamp1472 Virtually the same boiler design as the K4-class Pacifics.
Between the two classes, the total of similar boilers was 999... (Some remained into the 1950s, as original, & hand fired, built without stokers..) The Standard Rairoad of the World.... ( the Amazon of it's day) W. Date: 02/23/20 19:52 Re: PRR in Reading Author: Panamerican99 George W. Gerhart II shot some nice 16mm movies of the PRR in and around Reading circa 1952, including a great sequence of an E6 Atlantic on the turntable there. All of his PRR Reading footage is in the DVD "Classic Pennsy Widescreen" which also has his wide screen chase of ore trains.
-Jim Herron Herron Rail Video Date: 02/26/20 18:10 Re: PRR in Reading Author: RBMN-ENGR Both of these photos were taken by Robert Wanner.
Chris Bost Leesport, PA Date: 02/28/20 16:28 Re: PRR in Reading Author: detiley The PRR ROW was not used to build US422. The ROW remained intact until recently when a warehouse was constructed just about where the locos were photographed. The rest of the ROW has been converted into the "Thun Trail' from Reading to beyond Birdsboro.
US422 was built on the ROW of the Reading's Union Canal Branch. |