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A new thread about the russian decs recently started on the Reading Modeler.
http://www.readingmodeler.com/modules.p ... opic&t=757

1914 shot looking the other way at the Pier 27 bridge. Dale Woodland's 2nd Reading diesel book has a great modern shot of the front of the pier showing the bridge and the lead up grade as well.

A friend is planning to model Hamburg station, and I remembered this thread because of the crane pics. I recall a Reading Eagle article a few years back about the Boyertown crane. They were talking about moving it since the railyard had been torn up. The article did state that it was a unique Readin...

There was a whole lot trackage going on back there until the 50's. Strip mining and development wiped out a lot of the grades after that. There were no fewer than 3 wyes that overlapped and connected with each other in that area. The LV had a beautiful through truss that crossed the reading's main, ...

I saw it headed south on 61 near Schuylkill Haven today. It's probably home by now. cool.

Hello all. Throwing this project up here to see if there's any interest. If it would link to more appropriate threads within the site, I welcome any suggestions or help in doing so. I've been a Reading Railroad fan all my life and am working on modeling various scenes along the system. First off, I'...

Hey Frank, Nice Lockridge pics. According to 1937 aerials, a lot of that complex was still intact until then. Also, I saw and photographed something similar to that unloading area down near Emmaus about 10 years ago. Really odd set up that had half circle cut-outs in the base of the piers, straight ...

Nice find! Here's a shot for comparison with the 3rd picture above. Glad you guys got some pics before it's gone. We can only hope.

Thanks Alex for bringing back your great research project on The Perk. For anyone who's interested, I've been working up a Perk-based HO scale track plan to fit a 13 square foot room. It was inspired by and designed for a fellow Reading branchline modeler. I concentrate on developing station area sc...

I had the same problem for a while. Was really discouraged, but finally got it, so I'm sure you can too. Over the Pa map, Zoom in on the town you're working on. Then go up to "select era" (pull down). select 1937-42, my favorite since it shows the old grades best. When the red dots appear,...

Thanks for those informative links Frank. You surely know about Penn Pilot. Can you capture some views from there? Will provide great comparison pics. You can see the C&F bridge over the East Penn at Alburtis in the 30's.

Pretty cool that there are all those winter time views to track those grades with. So all the little branches in this general area were for hauling various ores? Forgive my naivete of the locale. I'm a rail history buff with a lot of projects, and I'm enjoying your photo studies very much.

I enjoy finding out about these little sub-branches. Looks like that coal trestle was the very end of that line. There was yet another parellel branch south of this one off of the C&F that ran to the quarries at Klines Corner. It was abandoned even earlier than the Haafsville line. You can see t...

An accompanying shot of head house after re-building.

An old and new shot of the business side of the roadway ramp: