I am a builder of steam locomotives specializing in the anthracite region of the United States from the railroads Reading Company, Lehigh Valley, Central Railroad of New Jersey, Lehigh New England and more. The engines are anything from a re-detailing with earlier projects to 90% scratch built like the LNE E-8 2-8-0. The kit bashes are done with styrene for structures and brass detail parts of several companies, really what ever that works I can find cheap at train shows.
Looked like warminster R2 area. My father worked for both the reading and Conrail based out of race street tower from 47'-82' as a signal maintainer. Many great memories living with the train behind the house in hatboro many years ago! Great video
In the second scene, we stopped to protect Lower Mountain Road, but when the flagman got off the engine, he stepped into a bees nest and was stung. He came back to the train where my mom (Joan) treated him with some first aid, lots of stings. My dad, (Bill Houser) was trying to tell (Bob Rule, shooting video) to look out for them. In the third scene, at Lahaska, the frog in the south switch of the runaround was cracked, so there was 5mph restriction over it, hense going slow and watching out.
After seeing these locomotives in the museum and then this, it’s a shame they’ll most likely never see the rails under their own power again. Honestly if I won the lottery I would gladly donate more than half of it to both the PRR Museum and Strausburg to make it happen. Since 7002 (actually 8063) and 1223 are more than fast enough to pull such a train down the mainline. If given enough room to get up to speed. Imagine you’re in Philadelphia driving to the airport or whatever and you see a double header steam train heading the same way. Though I think 460 and 7002 are more suited to mainline excursions because of the sheer speeds they can achieve since the E6 and E2 classes were known to go over 100MPH easily. Either way the locomotives will always be a part of history for the PRR and will always be part of Strausburg. Maybe one day we’ll see these two under steam again to join the plausible growing Strausburg fleet.
I grew up in Oneonta NY and rode my bike to the city park. When a train was coming, I hi=gh tailed it to the crossing and watched 'em go by. Love these old films of the D&H!
How were the Blueliners able to travel up to Warminster, when the R2 was almost consistently through-routed from Warminster to Marcus Hook, and later Wilmington?
Alligator clips to the wheels that pickup current will do the trick. You can connect the clips to the tender wheels, drawbar, frame, or other places where there is bare metal.
It's a great set of backdrop modules/layout; it looks very reading. I don't know if you used bark chips or ceiling tiles for the rock cut- but it is the most effective example of that technique I have ever seen
I wonder what ever happened to this line after the BM&R expanded in the 90s of early 2000s? Do they still own it or has it been abandoned or possibly ripped up?
Have you ever done an A4b? I just bought two of those mantua 0-4-0 yard goatswith the intention of doing a superdetail and DCC conversion (after remotor of course)
