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Reading Railroad Heritage Museum, INCREDIBLE Vintage Diesel Collection!
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- čas přidán 28. 06. 2022
- Welcome back for another railroad adventure today!
Today we are at the Reading Railroad Heritage Museum of Hamburg PA - this volunteer operated museum has a vast collection of early and later diesel locomotives that operated on the Reading Railroad. The collection also includes an interesting selection of rolling stock, passenger cars, and custom built motive pieces.
Today I’m joined with a group of CZcams friends - @emeraldsoundproductions
@JamieMakin
@rj78productions88
@JPVideos81
Check out their channels via hyperlink!
Enjoy!
Happy Railroading!
Thank you for the tour. Very enjoyable to watch from start to finish.
Thanks so much for watching! I hope to get back there soon. Was a great museum. 🚂💨
Was another fun day. No more rocking that caboose 🤣
Definitely was! I was testing the suspension 😜
So many great old trains and rolling stock Nick great video
Thanks so much for watching! 🚂💨
Love those Reading Alcos
I need to find some, A C-424 would be awesome 😎 🚂💨
Awesome video thanks for sharing can't wait to go visit myself
Thanks so much for watching! Definitely check it out. It was an awesome museum!
Great stuff.
Thanks so much! 🚂💨
Awesome Video Nick! I was just there for Father’s Day weekend and had a blast! Videos of it are already on my channel. 😎👏
I’ll definitely have to check it out, thanks so much for watching! 🚂💨
This museum has some interesting diesel locomotives!
9:20 That locomotive was donated to this museum in 2019! It's cool to see railroad museums have locomotives in somewhat modern liveries. This unit was one of 20 originally built for the Reading that serve on CSX
Thanks for watching! I plan to get back there again soon. This museum has so many cool pieces. I heard they were going to repaint that CSX to OG colors of the Reading.
Awesome video! I believe that csx engine, may have gone to the Delaware and Hudson after reading and before csx. Could be wrong. I need to check thus place out! Take care!
That’s very right! D&H as well. I looked that up once I got home. Thanks so much for watching!
I have been to that museum in the past. It's a great single road museum which other museums can definitely take some notes on how to run it well. Time it with the "Taste of Hamburg" weekend for some great food as well. The tour from the guide we had that day was excellent. I also like the GP-30 there as well as the one in Strasburg which I think you'd get into the cab on that one, although it's been some time since I was in the RR Museum of Pa.
Thanks so much for watching! Their yard is a playground for sure especially the amazing C630. GP30s are still my favorite late EMDs along with GP7s / GP9s.
@@NixCrossing The Taste of Hamburg Hamburger festival is every Labor Day Weekend every year. All sorts of food, hamburgers, sandwiches, vendors, etc. Well worth the trip if you're in that area on Labor day weekend. Personally I like seeing oddball equipment at museums. Almost all have an RS1/2/3 or F unit or Geep. Smaller production units like Alco Centuries, anything steam, anything traction, really get my attention at museums.
Hope they get all of these rail equipment restored to service in the future one day!
That would be the dream. I’m a huge vintage diesel fan so if I could pick 3, I’d rescue the GP30, GP7 & F Unit. They said most of the equipment still runs and they fire them up for fun. Because of insurance reasons, they can’t do fire ups when the museum is open.
@@NixCrossing Yeah, but what about the line between Hamburg and Temple? That used to be the Blue Mountain & Reading railroad line where they used to host excursions back in the 1980s.
@@NixCrossingwhat will become of it then?
Wow that’s very awesome video I actually used to volunteer there they also have a train layout that they take all over the place there recent one is from CSX and I hope you have an awesome day
Thanks so much for watching! That’s awesome! Apparently they also do a Christmas display that I wanted to check out.
Very nice video - just a few comments to add info to the items on display.
Seats in cab of GP7, on the right is the Engineer's seat. The left seat is for the Fireman. If there was a head brakeman, he might hang out in a trailing unit until he was needed. The Conductor and rear brakeman/flagman were in the caboose.
Reading RR locomotive classes, like most railroads, are different from the builder's model number. RS stood for "road switcher" and model 3 for the third type of road switcher on the Reading. On the Pennsylvania RR this locomotive would be a ES15. Note that RDG #5513, an EMD GP30, was known as an RSE-14.
Locomotive at the 4:25 mark is an EMD F7 unit. An FA was an ALCO freight diesel model. Because #900 has a cab, it is an "A" unit; "B" units have no cab. So this is an EMD F "A" unit. An ALCO with a cab would be an FA "A" unit.
Blue baggage car at the 5:45 mark is a PRR car, perhaps a BP60. The port holes in the door give it away.
At the 8:00 mark, the bar code on the RDG box car was part of a system used by all railroads in the 1960's and 1970's to automate freight car tracking. It was unsuccessful as scanners couldn't read through dirt, rain, and rust. The car itself was sold to the Delaware and Hudson who chose to only change the reporting mark DH and number rather than repaint the entire freight car.
At 8:50 is a wood caboose. In order to be used on modern freight trains a caboose like this still had to have a steel frame. This would prevent it from being crushed by the heavier freight cars in use by World War II.
At 16:36 is presented NS 9905, a yard slug. This started out as a Fairbanks Morse Trainmaster but was cut down with the prime mover (the actual diesel) removed. Power to help move freight cars came from a "mother unit", often an EMD SD40. These were used at the Lambert's Point yard in Norfolk, VA to move coal hoppers to the unloaders for ships to take overseas. This unit is actually evidence of a preservation tragedy as one FM Trainmaster was supposed to be preserved but due to a SNAFU, all units were cut down to slugs.
Reading #803 is a multiple unit commuter car used in the Philadelphia area. The engineer sat in the vestibule of the lead car of a train and was able to control all the cars in the train through MU connections much like diesels would use later. The "bus bar" on the top of the car did allow electricity to be distributed to trailing cars which then could be run without the pantograph raised. This decreased wear and tear on the catenary wires as well as the pantographs themselves. Reading built their catenary system in the 1930's to the same standard as the Pennsylvania RR had done. This allowed these cars to operate on PRR lines when the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) joined these lines and closed Reading Terminal.
Thank you for the comment and for all supplemental information. I truly enjoy learning about these marvelous machines 🚂💨
good vid nix thanks lee
Thanks so much! 🚂💨
If you like GP30s then you should take a trip to the New Hope and Ivyland Railroad. Most of the time their main locomotive they use on traditional excursions is their GP30 numbered 2198.
Thanks for watching! I’ve been up there before to film their steam locomotive #40. I believe that beautiful GP30 was in their engine shed. The video should be on the channel if you’re interested in checking that out.
Okay I’ll definitely check it out!
so.. this will be the next you tube meet and greet for May 19. Hope EVERYONE can join us that day.. YOU included
Definitely will try to make it. The museum is fantastic
Fun video Nick! Thanks for bringing us along!
I've read that the Reading was such a good place to work it was called "The Most Exclusive Men's Club in the State of Pennsylvania," jobs with the Reading were really coveted.
That's one fine collection of locomotives, surprising really, I had no idea.
Oh, if you're looking for active Baldwin switchers try SMS Rail in Paulsboro NJ. They've got a Baldwin fleet they use on a regular basis. As I understand it they welcome visitors with prior appointment.
Thanks so much for watching! I’ve heard that they treated their employees extremely well. Everyone there was extremely proud of the museum and the collection. Yes! The tour guide told us about that they only use Baldwin switchers 🤩. I thought that was too cool. I’ll have to take a trip up there sometime. 🚂💨
@@NixCrossing One last thing on Baldwin switchers. Several years back in "TRP" magazine rail writer Mike Bednar, a Lehigh Valley veteran, wrote about the Baldwin swichers used on the Valley and how they were very popular with the crews. Unfortunately the Valley decided to rationalize their switcher fleet and went strictly with EMD products, so the Baldwins had to go. The Valley guys weren't too happy about it.
SMS rail has an interesting website, easily found.
@@wayneantoniazzi2706 apparently the Baldwin sharks were awesome and were reliable. The problem was parts / availability of service due to the collapse of Baldwin.
@@NixCrossing That was certainly a factor towards the end. Sharks were great locomotives but sadly for Baldwin by the time they got their act together with road units the race had been lost to EMD and Alco. Interestingly, many railroads looked at EMD as an upstart and believed that post-WW2 when the REAL locomotive builders like Baldwin and Alco would be permitted to build road units (they were restricted to switchers during the war) they'd show EMD how it was done. Didn't happen of course.
Great video Nick! That Reading GP30 is something special. Very cool. All of the other locomotives are fantastic too. Nicely done.
Thanks so much for watching! Love the GP30s! It was sweet seeing all the Alcos as well
They could all use a repaint. But at least they there.
There’s a few videos online of them starting up some of the diesels. I believe it was the Alco C630. Sounded very cool!
That green locomotive is a NW2
Thank you Nix for taken us along on your museum tour . I think it's important to go back in time !! 🙂Darrell
Thanks so much for watching! No derails at this museum 😂. Definitely agree! Most of the pieces still run 🚂💨
@@NixCrossing 🤣🤣 Nix 👍
A remarkable heritage history!!! Home of the Hamberg train show thank you Nick
Thanks so much for watching! Can’t wait to get back to this museum some time 🚂💨
Great video, Nick! And I really enjoyed visiting there with all of you. That's a great little museum, and I'll definitely be back again. I love how they plan to restore everything there. It's going to be a lengthy undertaking, but it'll be so worth it. I hope my footage of you hugging the GP-30 turned out well, lol. That was super cool to find out she was the first one made. That was the Reading & Northern Fast Freight that went through on the other side of 61 while we were there. Ian from Lehigh River Subdivision filmed it going through Lehigh Gorge later that day, so check his video out to see what we missed.
Thanks so much for watching! Haha 😂 the hug of the GP30 😂. I hope to be back around Christmas to see their train layouts. That’s awesome that he caught the train! It was flying
@@NixCrossing lol I swear I'm gonna hug the new Reading & Northern Buddliners when they arrive!
that was a great tour sir. Loved listening to the excitement in your voice
Thanks so much! This was a such a crazy collection of diesels. Some of those Alcos may be from Canada 🇨🇦 😜🚂💨
That Reading aux tender needs to be donated to somewhere else?
I wish some of the items could be sent around to be used , a lot of the diesels are in great shape.
@@NixCrossing Same here