Reading 1187
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Reading 1187 is a camelback A-4b class 0-4-0 "Switcher" type steam locomotive, built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad. It was primarily used for yard switching
Reading No. 1187 on display on the turntable at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg, Pennsylvania, in 1996
No. 4 on static display at the East Strasburg Station on July 19, 1984
No. 1187 stripped off in the Strasburg Railroad yard siding on December 1, 2013
Strasburg Rail Road
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The Strasburg Rail Road is a heritage railroad and the oldest continuously operating standard-gauge railroad in the western hemisphere, as well as the oldest public utility in the Commonwealth of Penn
Reading 1187
…switching services, until 1946, when it was sold to the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company's (CF&I) E&G Brooke Plant as No. 4. In 1962, it made its way to the Strasburg Railroad (SRC) in Strasburg, Pennsylvania to be used in hauling tourist trains, but due to its small size, it was reassigned to switching passenger cars. After…
No. 90 pulling into East Strasburg station in July 2014
No. 475 hauling an excursion train in 2004
Strasburg mini locomotive switcher
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