It’s the 1986 Blue Mountain & Reading Railfan Weekend, and two trains are running all day long, with different power on almost every trip. In preparation for meeting a southbound train pulled by Reading 4-8-4 2102, a pair of restored Pennsylvania Railroad E8’s brings its train into the little-used passing siding in Leesport, Pennsylvania. Although this is the former PRR Schuylkill branch, it is highly unlikely that these EMD’s ever plied these rails during their original life. Passenger service on the Schuylkill branch west of Reading ended in 1941, well over a decade before the E’s were built.
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just heritage schemes, not just commemorative schemes - this album is devoted to some of the world's most interesting paint schemes, past or present.
