She's baaaaaack! (RB&N 425 back in steam)

Steam returns to the Reading. R&N 425 yesterday:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=3nz-kTs3qw8

Nice to see another steam locomotive steaming. Go Reading!

Kwanzaa
12/26-1/1

Beautifully done video. What's the car in back of the tender - electric generator ?

When RDG 2102 foirst ran on the old Iron Horse Rambles, it had a whistle from the G-1 class Pacifics...... sue sounds like the same whistle. Brings back memories of going along the Perkiomen Branch and stopping for a Speed Picture Stop at Zionsville..........

Possibly an electric generator. I was thinking of a head end power set to keep the passenger cars nice and warm.

Kwanzaa
12/26-1/1

3rdrail wrote:Beautifully done video. What's the car in back of the tender - electric generator ?

Yes, that's exactly what it is. The car contains a diesel powered generator to provide 3 phase 480 VAC (Amtrak standard) power to the coaches for lighting and HVAC.

WOW WOW WOW WOW!!
Remember when she was decked out as the "Blue Comet" around 1975 and Tom Snyder closed out his old "Tomorrow" program with live coverage by helicopter on the NY&LB?
Mitch

Mitch, sorry, but I think you have the 425 confused with ex-FEC 148. I was the hostler/engine watchman the night before the trip (December 1975) and I'm pretty sure I was on the 148- (Next day, I remember dozing in the third coach-)

Correct, it was the 148. I don't think that the 425 ran between Paulsen Spence and BMR.

Didn't the 425 run on the Valley Forge Scenic before going to BMR? Ancient history-

Duh, it did. I should have realized that. It was also stored on the Wilmington and Western for a time.

Hi all, I post this filme on Youtube of the Valley Forge Scenic Railroad from September 1969, The late Harold Clevenstine took the film.

Len.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=SoIq2R5CXuM