IF YOU LIKE STREAM PICTURES THIS IS A GREAT READ

[jefelectric]

I just got Steam Glory 2, published by Classic Trains, sister publication of CTT. This special edition has a lot of nice steam pictures and interesting steam articles. A few that caught my eye were: The pictures on pages 84 & 85 showing steam engines pulling bilevel commuter cars, as they say you can find a prototype for everything. The article on page 86 about the painted ladies of the SP. And the article on page 46 about the Reading Shops as this is one of my favorite roads. 116 pages and well worth the price.

[luther_stanton]

Definitely a great publication; I picked one up about two weeks ago and found it packed with interesting articles. 

I also liked the first article about the development of the Berkshire.

[phillyreading]

John,

Sounds like a very interesting magazine, is it still for sale?

I used to live in Reading for about seven years back in the 70's and have seen the Reading shops from the outside, needs a lot of repair as the bricks seem to be loose.  If you like the Reading Railroad you probally know about the Reading Company Technical & Historical Society in Leesport PA, they have color photos of Reading cabooses and locomotives of the Reading Railroad on thier website.

A couple places to see Reading equipment are; Tuckerton Rd. between route 61 & route 222 in Temple PA  the old Blue Mountain & Reading passenger station, just north of Hamburg PA off of route 61 on the left side about a mile, was were some diesel locomotives were parked a few years ago, I think the name of the place is Jim Thorpe.  Also Reading's # 2102 was being serviced at Steam Town the last that I know of, on display at Steam Town is Reading's # 2124(hope I have the cab number correct) T1 steam loco.

I have an MTH T1 Reading locomotive, very nice detail and runs great.  Have a couple of Williams SD-45's, one Reading one Pennsylvania, and three Williams GP-9's, one Reading and two Pennsylvania, the Williams run great and have good pulling power.

Lee F.

[cnw1995]

And here I thought this was a book about fishing or landscapes...

[wrmcclellan]

I agree with John, the latest volume of Steam Glory (2) is stunning. It is currently on sale if your local hobby shop has not sold out.