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Steam & Excursion > T-Hog At GettysburgDate: 03/25/20 13:45 T-Hog At Gettysburg Author: MaryMcPherson The Chessie Steam Special making a stop at Gettysburg in a slide dated May, 1977. Think she may have been in this neck of the woods before?
Mary McPherson Dongola, IL Diverging Clear Productions Date: 03/25/20 14:42 Re: T-Hog At Gettysburg Author: ClubCar MaryMcPherson Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > The Chessie Steam Special making a stop at > Gettysburg in a slide dated May, 1977. Think she > may have been in this neck of the woods before? The Reading Railroad had a line (it's the Gettysburg Railroad Today) that came down into Gettysburg many years ago and I don't know whether or not the 2101 ever pulled a freight train over this line. However, the sister engine, 2100, pulled a Reading Ramble down that line in 1960 or 61. Keep in mind that the 2101 never actually pulled a Ramble since it was a stand-by engine in case the 2100, 2102 or 2124 failed during that period of time. John in White Marsh, Maryland Date: 03/26/20 10:31 Re: T-Hog At Gettysburg Author: LJGross Sister 2102 was there waaaay back in 1972. This was on a pair of excursions round-trip from Baltimore to Hagerstown on a bitter-cold February weekend. The westbound trip was via the Gettysburg Line and then return via the WM main. We had a pair of FA's as helpers over Jacks Mountain. Those were the days!
LJG Date: 03/26/20 11:47 Re: T-Hog At Gettysburg Author: cozephyr Thanks L Gross for the Reading 2102 image at Gettysburg. Neat Gettysburg fire engine-no cab roof-!?! Glad you experienced the Reading Rambles of the 1970's-alas I was too young.
Date: 03/26/20 12:19 Re: T-Hog At Gettysburg Author: boejoe I was on a Reading Ramble to Gettysburg with T-1's (engine change at Rutherford, I believe) in Fall 1963. Rambles started in October 1959 - I missed all of them until '63 due to military service.
Can't remember road numbers of T-1's on that Sunday. Date: 03/26/20 14:31 Re: T-Hog At Gettysburg Author: bigsavage LJGross Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Sister 2102 was there waaaay back in 1972. This > was on a pair of excursions round-trip from > Baltimore to Hagerstown on a bitter-cold February > weekend. The westbound trip was via the Gettysburg > Line and then return via the WM main. We had a > pair of FA's as helpers over Jacks Mountain. Those > were the days! > > LJG > Gettysburg Eng. 1-4 was a 1951 Mack L-85, in service until 1998. Nickname was the"Mighty Mack". On 7/1/1976, RDG2101 visited Gettysburg as AFT#1 with the Freedom train, GFD's 1957 Mack B-85 engine, nicknamed "General IKE" did the rewatering honors. Photo by Richard Cook; from book '100 Favorite Fire Rigs', by former BLE prez John Sytsma. Date: 03/26/20 15:21 Re: T-Hog At Gettysburg Author: rdgrailfan Rambles ran multiple trips to Getytsburg, I was on multiple trips, copy of April 29, 1962 attached just for grins. do rememberouble headers to Gettysburg, Think I have smoe shots of them being serviced just north of the station, will look
Date: 03/26/20 15:46 Re: T-Hog At Gettysburg Author: MaryMcPherson Date: 03/27/20 16:56 Re: T-Hog At Gettysburg Author: Kemacprr They were called Bermuda cabs by Mack. Bermuda wanted a convertible fire engine so Mack made the Bermuda cab. ------- Ken -- Who owned and drove Macks for years B models, R models and CH models. .
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/27/20 16:58 by Kemacprr. Date: 03/28/20 07:27 Re: T-Hog At Gettysburg Author: jberlin In August 1979, I had a Summer job on the Gettysburg Railroad when former Reading T-1 #2101 (in American Freedom Train livery) was towed through Gettysburg on her way to the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore. The locomotive has just passed the well-traveled Gettysburg Railroad depot (original Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railroad Rockton PA depot, former Penn View Mountain Railroad depot near Blairsville PA). This depot was moved once again to Kane PA for the now defunct Knox & Kane Railroad, where it exists today in spite of a fire of suspicious origin. Sorry for the photo quality, as it was taken from a print. - Kevin Moore
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/28/20 07:30 by jberlin. |