Friday, September 5, 2014

Reading Budds in Quakertown, Pennsylvania, 1963


Three RDCs of the Reading Railroad, see earlier posts. Lead unit here, 9155, was built in 1962; according to this webpage, it is presently stored unserviceable at the West Coast Railway Heritage Park, Squamish, BC, Canada.

2 comments:

NostalgicRod said...

I vaguely recall this train service coming into Quakertown way back when I lived there as a kid. It was mid to late 70s perhaps, and by that time, it was only two cars. I don't recall when service stopped. Early 80s?

Anonymous said...

The Quakertown station had passenger rail service along the Bethlehem Line to Bethlehem and Philadelphia until July 27, 1981, when SEPTA ended service on all its intercity diesel-powered lines. SEPTA still owns the line and lessees it to the East Penn Railway.