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Okay, none of you will believe this!!! NO way that I even believe this.....well, I'm currently in the process of ordering the Stewart Reading FT.....did not realize the store wasn't open on a Wednesday so I emailed him to call me. Hopefully he'll get back to me soon so I can order it ASAP.....but here's the thing. I went out to a doctor's appointment which is rescheduled because the doctor's sick. Funny to say that. Anyway, on the way home I decided to take one of the many routes that I have to choose from to go home. I take this route maybe 2 or 3 times a week. Anyway, been on this road more times than I can possibly count. I remembered that there were train tracks on this road....and remembered there was some kind of train sitting along the side of the tracks....just sitting there....but I didn't remember anything else. So there I am driving and I swerve off the road into a parking lot next to my Reading locomotive that I'm buying.....except of course it's the big one.....maybe there were different locomotives that looked the same back then but I know for a fact that it looks very very very much like the miniature one I'm buying....same color scheme....#900 on the front above the reading lines logo....4 little round windows on the side.....it was so beautiful!!!! Okay, sad at the same time....when I walked to the other side I realized that the walling was missing and that they had taken black wood and bolted it to the side and painted it black and put the green stripe down the side. If I stayed only on the one side though it was in beautiful condition. It also only had the A section....no b part.....why would that be??? I wonder. Also in the yard at what might have been a Leesport Station a long time ago if there ever was one there were many other train parts just laying around. There were the big yellow and green Reading cabooses #92926 and 94074 and one gray one that was definitely the same make but in between paint jobs. There were passenger cars that matched my engine perfectly. Silver roofs, black sides, green stripe.....#9115, 9119, 9127, and 9103. There was an LEMTU car which I now know means Locomotive Engineer Mobile Training Unit.....it was yellow/green/silver with a stripe down the sides. There were many other cars there - one labeled Souteastern PA Transportation Authority. Others looked like Conrail and Amtrak stuff. There was also a pretty yellow and black diesel engine with two black V’s in the front #485. That was a very pretty one. Anyway, there were others but I was never so thrilled. I have been going past them for 25 years and never took any notice of them until today because obviously I have no interest trains what so ever. Gosh! Anyway, this little leesport town was the home of the Reading Lines Museum (one little car worth of stuff) but then it was moved to the Temple station I mentioned in my first post. (I learned this from a sign on one of the passenger cars today.) The Reading Lines Museum will eventually be located in Hamburg however that won’t be for a few years. Well, that’s all for now. I must go write some lesson plans.......or maybe I’ll pass time with my first hobby. I’m in the process of re-categorizing all my postcards. (I’m such a geek!)
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