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Viewing Album:  Colebrookdale RR - Boyertown, PA
 
By:Bob Krug
Dates:3/23/2014 - 3/23/2014
Album Info:The Coalbrookdale RR is an 8-mile branch line (ex-Reading Company) that connects with NS’ Philadelphia-to-Harrisburg mainline in Pottstown, PA and runs from there up to Boyertown, PA following the valley of Ironstone Creek. The last on-line freight shipper dried up recently so the status of the line’s continuance was looking grim. A group of railroad fans in Boyertown have organized to try to the save the line by operating it as a tourist hauler plus trying to resume service to some of the former on-line freight customers. The Coalbrookdale RR group has adopted a marketing-savvy nickname; The Secret Valley Line. They're also apparently politically savvy because they've obtained a state grant to rehabilitate the track. They’re hoping to be operating tourist trains by Fall, 2014. They recently acquired a nicely restored ex-PRR N5B Cabin car that now sits on the property in downtown Boyertown. On an adjacent track sits BDLX 7580, a long-in-the-tooth GP-10 that formerly worked the Pennsylvania Supply Quarry west of Annville, PA. Prior to the quarry, the locomotive was CR 7580. I wish the Coalbrookdale RR group success, and hope to ride one of their trains before the end of 2014!
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Coalbrookdale RR caboose and GP-10 looking north along the track
Title:  Coalbrookdale RR caboose and GP-10 looking north along the track
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Photo Date:  3/23/2014  Upload Date: 3/23/2014 9:11:44 PM
Location:  Boyertown, PA
Author:  Bob Krug
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  BDLX 7580(GP10)
Views:  692   Comments: 0
BDLX 7580, ex-Quarry, ex-Conrail is the motive power that brought the caboose to Boyertown
Title:  BDLX 7580, ex-Quarry, ex-Conrail is the motive power that brought the caboose to Boyertown
Description:  This GP-10 unit most recently operated the Pennsylvania Supply Quarry in Annville, PA. Prior to the quarry it was CR 7580.
Photo Date:  3/23/2014  Upload Date: 3/24/2014 9:29:52 AM
Location:  Boyertown, PA
Author:  Bob Krug
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  BDLX 7580(GP10)
Views:  1658   Comments: 3
GP-10 and ex-PRR N5B cabin car on adjacent tracks
Title:  GP-10 and ex-PRR N5B cabin car on adjacent tracks
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/23/2014  Upload Date: 3/26/2014 2:10:28 PM
Location:  Boyertown, PA
Author:  Bob Krug
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  BDLX 7580(GP10)
Views:  638   Comments: 1
Pennsy N5B Cabin Car on the Coalbrookdale RR
Title:  Pennsy N5B Cabin Car on the Coalbrookdale RR
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/23/2014  Upload Date: 3/26/2014 2:06:43 PM
Location:  Boyertown, PA
Author:  Bob Krug
Categories:  Yard
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Views:  227   Comments: 1
Phoenix Steel Column Crane dating back to the 1860's
Title:  Phoenix Steel Column Crane dating back to the 1860's
Description:  Crane was apparently installed by the Philadelphia & Reading for unloading cars in the yard. The Colebrookdale RR group has refurbished it.
Photo Date:  3/23/2014  Upload Date: 3/26/2014 2:11:31 PM
Location:  Boyertown, PA
Author:  Bob Krug
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Views:  260   Comments: 0

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