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CNJ still ran to Pburg til CR, and AFAIK still into Allentown (via LV from Pburg or Easton?), as CNJ-Rdg pool train still ran to Rutherford til Conrail....pix are in the Morning Sun Rdg in color book of that train on the Rdg side. Psgr service also ran to Pburg til a few years after CR (1979-80?) Th...

wow, John you DO get around! Thanks for all the pix....

Thanks, Joe-I lived in Magnolia to, from birth (1956!) til 86

to resuscitate an old thread-here's 2 E44's coming through Paoli westbound, mid-day in March 1971., with what could probably be one of those mail trains.. It's not long as intermodal trains go.... My Dad took these with an old Olympus Pen-EE half-frame rangefinder... The miracle of scanners and corr...

These are a little too post-CR for the PRSL group (which is a great bunch of people, and just celebrated its 7th birthday, still with Captain Bill at the helm!) This is WPCA 31 (ex-CM91) in 1985 or 86.. the Beese was now solidly manual block and the track averaged out to 25-30 in most places, making...

Wow, John, you DO get around.. appreciate your photos of the whole scene! Quite the crossing light rig at Cross Keys Rd, huh? Is the little custard stand (the cat and the fiddle) still there? Winslow looks less haunted now since its all grown in..(except for the corpses of the abandoned locos)... he...

John-great shots as usual.. do you have some sort of other-worldly powers that help you find this stuff????? And I DON'T miss those @#$%^%%^ 3500's AT ALL!!! (when we had them on the SLR)

Zoo also had for 2 tricks w/2 train directors (hourly, BRAC jobs) and 3 leverman. One director and leverman on 3rd trick til the late 70's . I posted at Arsenal and Zoo back then as a summer intern. The CTC machines went in to the towers starting in the 30's on a grand scale concurrent with electrif...

Great film!!!

Aha! John Danielson revealed your TRUE identity! Still have all those Rdg VO-1000m slides.. have NOT built the kitbash in HO yet...(John's Dad and I went to grade school and high school together. we're OLD!)

Hi- I was scanning some slides recently, and came across a shot I took of an ex-OIM S-8 cow and calf ,sitting stored at Fairless Works back in 1982 or 83(US Steel near Morrisville PA, now closed)-did these ever get purchased for restoration or as museum displays, or just left to rust away?

Thanks! I have some others I posted a while back but will re-post!

PRR/PC GP9B's were a staple of the road jobs to Reading and P-burg as well as other secondary lines in later PC days, splicing GP30's and GP9's amongst other units. In the PRSL forum I've posted a few shots of them splicing CR Paducah GP9u's... but here is one in full CR blue in Bridgeton Jct NJ in ...

Still a busy line! In Rdg days, it was the Chester Branch, with Darby Creek Yard as the hub and a scheduled road freight (at one point, to Rutherford) daily to and from the yard, at least til the early 70's. Here is a shot from 1971 of GP7 634, RS3 510 and GP35 3634 ready to hook on and head west. V...

Thanks! TV24 rings a bell (usually after it passed Brill-sorry, bad pun!) I'll ask Bill, who worked there if the name rings a bell. Only "runner" I remembner was Joe Boder who held down the helper job you mentioned at Zoo.. we called them "Boder's Motors", in the pocket-one or 2 ...