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Posted by kp5308 on Sat Apr 30 15:35:16 2016 Saturday April 23rd on the Allentown & Auburn. Pennsy gas car #4666 (actually repowered by the PRR with a 425HP Hamilton V8 diesel) was fired up & ran on a short straight section of track near the Topton shop area: The Brill arrived from the Black River & Western on its own wheels over NS on April 17th. Shown here being dropped off for the ALLN. Photo by Jim Schlegel:  The privately owned car is the last of the 6 ordered in 1930. It runs a lot better than it looks. For more on the career of #4666 click HERE :  Eric letters the Reading HTh hopper brought in from the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania:  Most of the rest of the shop force was at work on the Jersey Central coach inside the building:  Mike Bast, ALLN operations president informed me that a PRR X29 boxcar, also from the RRM of PA was being delivered via truck to the Kutztown end:  Complete with correct trucks:  Before manning the Reading Railroad Heritage Museum on Sunday Kevin & I dropped by Port Clinton & checked on the progress of the restoration of ex-Reading T1 4-8-4 #2102 by Reading & Northern shop forces. Nothing unusual has been found so far:  Firebox work is the main focus at this point. Steam up should be around this time next year:   While we on museum duty the 4666 ran a few round trips on ALLN & was found to run hot & have a cranky fuel pump. Two Jim Schlegel shots depict the car passing the recently completed picnic grove at Hinterleiter:  And crossing Main St. in Kutztown:  Next to arrive at Topton will be this unlettered & unnumbered orange Alco S2. It left its home in Indiana on CSX on the 9th & was deposited in Reading Yard by NS on Friday the 29th. This switcher is the last surviving diesel from the Lehigh and New England, delivered as #611 in 1948. It ended up at Emporia Grain & had been replaced by newer power several years ago but was kept & fired up from time to time "just because". It was sold for scrap last year but the scrapper knew the historical pedigree of the engine & worked with the Lehigh Valley Chapter NRHS until funds were raised to purchase & move it. I understand it needs minor mechanical work to return it to service. It will be painted in the as delivered L&NE black and white: 
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