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 #1429088  by NJT4272
 
Word has it, and the photos prove it, that the Reading & Northern is about to receive the two former Bessemer & Lake Erie F7s and the Susquehanna RDC1 that have languished on the Southern Railroad of New Jersey in Winslow Junction, NJ for the past several years. They've received R&N reporting marks and have been numbered appropriately to fit within the current R&N roster.

Looks like the Reading & Northern is going to be getting a set of 'Executive F's' and classic cab units for all those excursion trains!

Read all about it over on the NJ Railfan Forum: viewtopic.php?f=127&t=30543&start=75#p1428928
 #1437015  by one87th
 
The units have been on the Reading and Northern since at least May 25, 2017. On that date a friend of mine was in Pottsville. He caught the R&N's recently acquired and newly repainted MP15 #1542 (ex NS #2426, which had had its final lettering applied the day before) with recently acquired ex-SRRofNJ F-7As #250 and #251 and RDC-1 #9167. The units arrived at Pottsville's Union Station Intermodal Transit Center spur at 1 p.m. that Thursday. The RDC was uncoupled and left on the spur, and the MP15 towed the two F units back south.