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4/25/2024
 
 
 
 
 
By:Randy Kotuby
Dates:7/30/1981 - 7/30/1981
Album Info:Photos of the last day of operation of the Reading Crusader and the Wall Street. By 1981 these magnificent trains had been reduce to nothing but a pair of RDC's.
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Reading Crusader
Title:  Reading Crusader
Description:  The Reading Crusader passes XC Tower on the CNJ Mainline in Cranford NJ for the final time on her way home from Newark NJ. I got a friendly wave from the conductor.
Photo Date:  7/30/1981  Upload Date: 11/20/2010 6:32:32 PM
Location:  Cranford, NJ
Author:  Randy Kotuby
Categories:  Passenger,Action
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Reading Crusader
Title:  Reading Crusader
Description:  The Crudader heads of into the sunset for the last time.......
Photo Date:  7/30/1981  Upload Date: 11/20/2010 6:33:10 PM
Location:  Cranford, NJ
Author:  Randy Kotuby
Categories:  Passenger,Action
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Reading Crusader
Title:  Reading Crusader
Description:  The Reading's Crusader crosses the Raritan River from Manville at the Water Works on the final morning of operation.
Photo Date:  7/30/1981  Upload Date: 11/20/2010 6:11:26 PM
Location:  Manville, NJ
Author:  Randy Kotuby
Categories:  Bridge,Passenger,Action
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Reading Crusader
Title:  Reading Crusader
Description:  The Reading's Crusader crosses the Raritan River from Manville at the Water Works in the brilliant sunshine on the final morning of operation. We got a friendly wave from the engineer back instead of a call the the railroad police like you would today at this location.
Photo Date:  7/30/1981  Upload Date: 11/20/2010 6:11:48 PM
Location:  Manville, NJ
Author:  Randy Kotuby
Categories:  Bridge,Passenger,Action
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Views:  927   Comments: 1
Reading Crusader
Title:  Reading Crusader
Description:  The final AM run of the Reading's Crusader. You can see where the second track had been ripped out.
Photo Date:  7/30/1981  Upload Date: 11/20/2010 6:12:22 PM
Location:  Manville, NJ
Author:  Randy Kotuby
Categories:  Action
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Views:  560   Comments: 0
Reading Wall Street
Title:  Reading Wall Street
Description:  The Reading's Wall Street, running on former Reading iron, hits the diamond with the ex-Lehigh Valley tracks in Manville Yard on the final morning of operation.
Photo Date:  7/30/1981  Upload Date: 11/20/2010 6:14:44 PM
Location:  Manville, NJ
Author:  Randy Kotuby
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Views:  841   Comments: 1
Reading Wall Street
Title:  Reading Wall Street
Description:  The Wall Street heads east for a final time at Manville NJ.
Photo Date:  7/30/1981  Upload Date: 11/20/2010 6:15:07 PM
Location:  Manville, NJ
Author:  Randy Kotuby
Categories:  Passenger,Action
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Reading Wall Street
Title:  Reading Wall Street
Description:  A shot of the very last Reading RDC run taken from XC Tower. The Wall Street has just come off the ex-Lehigh Valley mainline line and onto the former CNJ mainline in Cranford. The B&O line to Staten Island cuts off to the right just behinf the RDC's. You can see the former B&O freight station just above the middle of the second RDC. Back then, if a towerman saw you taking picutres of the trains he would invite you up for a visit. And with the setting sun, a couple of classic name trains from the glory days of railroads became history.
Photo Date:  7/30/1981  Upload Date: 11/20/2010 8:47:36 PM
Location:  Cranford, NJ
Author:  Randy Kotuby
Categories:  Passenger,Action
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Views:  1342   Comments: 0


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