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Owner: Pittsburg and Shawmut Railroad Incorporated
Type: Open Hopper
AAR Class: HTS
AAR Type: K345
Plate: B
Max Gross Weight: 263000
Load Limit: 204700
Dry Capacity: 3600
Ext L/W/H: 48' 9" / 10' 8" / 12' 6"
Former DJTX 7009, CCDX 888110, built as PLE unkown number.
Owner: Pittsburg and Shawmut Railroad Incorporated
Type: Open Hopper
AAR Class: HT
AAR Type: H350
Plate: C
Max Gross Weight: 263000
Load Limit: 204600
Dry Capacity: 3433
Former PSIX 215, built as PLE unknown number.
Owner: Pittsburg and Shawmut Railroad Incorporated
Type: Open Hopper
AAR Class: HTS
AAR Type: K345
Plate: B
Max Gross Weight: 263000
Load Limit: 204500
Dry Capacity: 3600
Ext L/W/H: 48' 9" / 10' 8" / 12' 6"
Former DJTX 7126
Photograph (C) copyright 2009 Ivan Safyan Abrams. All rights reserved. Unauthorized use prohibited.
"Pittsburg" is spelled correctly; the railway was incorporated at a time early in the 20th century when the city had dropped the Scottish-style final "h" from its name. That didn't last long, and soon Pittsburg became Pittsburgh, again. "Shawmut" was the name of a Boston bank that provided capital for the line's construction.
The Reading T-1 class 4-8-4 locomotives were built in the Company's shops in Reading, Pennsylvania, after World War II. They utilized the boiler shells from some large 2-8-0 locomotives, combined with new cast frames and other parts provided by Baldwin Locomotive Works, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. There were 25 examples of this class, 2100-2124, and at least 4 of them survive; one is operable in the Northwest US, 2102 is stored on the Reading and Northern in Pennsylvania, and two others are in museums. They were coal-hauling locomotives, but after the end of regular steam use, the Reading ran fantrips called "Rambles" for some years, using one or two T-1 locomotives on each trip. This isn't a Ramble, but instead a private excursion some years later, when the locomotive was owned by a group of railfans and prior to it being purchased by the Reading and Northern. It's lettered "Alleghany", had been previously made up to resembler a Delaware and Hudson locomotive, and lettered as such. Shortly after the series of trips on the P&S, the locomotive was relettered with its correct "Reading" name.
This photo was taken with a Nikon F2 camera with a 105mm f/2.5 lens, on an Ektachrome emulsion. The slide was scanned in 2004 with a Nikon scanner.
The Reading Company, a coal hauling railroad in eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey, built many of its locomotives in its own shops. This one, #2102, is a 4-8-4 that survived the end of steam to become an excursion engine. During its years of ownership by Steam Tours, Inc., of Ohio, it ran a number of trips on the Pittsburg (correct spelling) and Shawmut Railway near Kittanning, PA. This photo shows 2102 on the P&S bridge over Mahoning Creek, in the fall of 1973.