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Reading "Big Dutch Mike" |
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A Reading M1sa "Big Dutch Mike" leads an Autumn afternoon westbound on the "platform track" as seen from Camp Meeting Avenue overpass. It's a good bet that this freight stopped to do work at pesticide maker Goulard & Olena. Reading's Big Dutch Mikes were Baldwin products (except for the class engine, #1700, from the Reading shops). CKF lived in nearby Blawenburg at the time and would ride his bike to the Skillman depot or get a ride from his mom, who worked at Skillman & Skillman Realty. |
| Photo Date: |
9/1/1947 Upload Date: 11/20/2008 10:21:29 AM |
| Location: |
Skillman, NJ |
| Author: |
Charles Knox Freericks |
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Steam |
| Locomotives: |
RDG 170X(2-8-2) |
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Reading M1sa Antracite Mike #1705 |
| Description: |
The Reading had a fleet of 57 Mikes, numbered from 1700 to 1756. #1700 was built by the Reading Shops. The rest were built by Baldwin. Here, CKF has caught #1705 stopped at the water spout in Skillman. "Mikado" meant "Emperor of Japan," and the name came from the first such locomotives being built for Japan by Baldwin. Note the Wooten Firebox. Apperently these were all off the roster very soon after, by 1948. |
| Photo Date: |
1/29/1947 Upload Date: 1/31/2008 12:28:20 AM |
| Location: |
Skillman, NJ |
| Author: |
Charles Knox Freericks |
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| Locomotives: |
RDG 1705(2-8-2) |
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Reading M1sa Antracite Mike #1724 |
| Description: |
Reading M1sa #1724, a 1912 era Mikado, takes on water at the Skillman water spout. The Reading rostered 57 of these units, built by both Baldwin and the Reading itself. CKF referred to them as "typical Reading freight locomotives" in his notes of the time. Sadly, none of these survive. We are on the New York Branch of the Philadelphia Division, a bike ride away from CKF's home at the time in Blawenburg NJ. |
| Photo Date: |
1/22/1947 Upload Date: 1/30/2008 11:03:33 AM |
| Location: |
Skillman, NJ |
| Author: |
Charles Knox Freericks |
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| Locomotives: |
RDG 1724(2-8-2) |
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