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| Title: |
BLH 75154 b/p |
| Description: |
Post Lima merger plate. |
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5/9/2009 Upload Date: 5/10/2009 8:03:24 AM |
| Location: |
Hamburg, PA |
| Author: |
Tim Darnell |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
RDG 533(AS16) |
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391 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
RDG AS-16 #543 |
| Description: |
This appears to be a Baldwin builder's photo of the recently built AS-16 unit for the Reading Co in 1951. This unit was the fourth one built out of the 43 units ordered. Specifics - Reading class RS2, 1600 hp, 2 axle trucks, B-B wheel arrangement, engine weight of 248,000 lb, tractive effort of 62,125. |
| Photo Date: |
6/1/1951 Upload Date: 11/12/2015 8:24:25 AM |
| Location: |
Eddystone, PA |
| Author: |
Gary Everhart |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
RDG 543(AS16) |
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692 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
RDG 553 |
| Description: |
Photgrapher, date and location unknown |
| Photo Date: |
12/31/1954 Upload Date: 6/5/2009 2:03:56 PM |
| Location: |
Reading, PA |
| Author: |
Ryan Kertis |
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| Locomotives: |
RDG 553(AS16) |
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2699 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
PRR 685, H-9S, #2 of 6, 1957 |
| Description: |
Camden. Here is the second of six successive duplicate 35mm color slides via Al Chione that were taken in Camden, New Jersey, on 24 June 1957. The photographer is not identified. Shown here is Pennsylvania Railroad engine #685, an H-9S (2-8-0) "Consolidated" built in Juniata as an H-8B during April of 1908, rebuilt as an H-8SB in May of 1915, rebuilt as an H-9S in May of 1926, and retired in October of 1958. Partially visible at the left is Reading Railroad engine #563, an AS16 road switcher built by Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton and rated at 1,600 horsepower. ("Stoneborobranch"; #53 of 69) |
| Photo Date: |
6/24/1957 Upload Date: 11/15/2020 10:28:41 AM |
| Location: |
Camden, NJ |
| Author: |
Thomas C. Ayers |
| Categories: |
Yard,Steam |
| Locomotives: |
PRR 685(2-8-0) RDG 563(AS16) |
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245 Comments: 0 |
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