RailPictures.Net Photo: RDG 117 Reading Steam 4-6-2 at Skillman, New Jersey by Charles Knox Freericks (estate)

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» Reading Depot
» Skillman, New Jersey, USA (more..)
» September, 1947

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A streamlined Pacific GS1sas leads The Crusader, train #614 (the afternoon eastbound) past the Skillman depot. I'm told by a fellow who enhanced the pic that this is the #117. In 1947, the Crusader ran twice a day between Philadelphia and Jersey City. The trainset has an observation car on either end. The eastbound side is now tucked into an extention off the tender. In JC, the engine will be turned and placed on the other end, but the rest of the trainset is not turned.

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