Reading Blue Mountain and Northern Volume 4
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This is a preview of Reading Blue Mountain and Northern Volume 4. The full DVD is available from our website at www.johnpmedia.com
DVD summary below:
In 1992, Conrail would again divest themselves of trackage and operations in the coal regions through their continuing consolidation program. The Reading & Northern acquired trackage from Conrail near Hazleton to serve the Jeddo Coal Company and purchased trackage from East Mahanoy Junction to Oneida and the line to Delano from Schuylkill County. This would allow the bulk of remaining rail shipments of Anthracite coal to be funneled through Reading.
The Reading & Northern would handle the acquisition and blending of Anthracite coal from different companies in the coal regions and transfer it to Conrail in North Reading. Conrail would then deliver the blended coal to port in Baltimore for export.
During this time, the R&N also acquired GE U23B locomotives from Conrail to handle the increased traffic and replace a few of the aging locomotives on the roster.
In volume 4, we’ll witness the qualifying run on the newly acquired line from East Mahanoy Junction to Delano and the acquisition of the freshly painted U23B locomotives from Conrail.
Digitized from the videotapes of the Ed Heck Collection
Narrated with commentary by Mike Bednar
Color and sound; approximately 64 minutes runtime
Archive comparison operation scenes throughout the video can be found in the following JPM programs: The Kantner collection, volumes 1, 2 and 3, available from our website at www.johnpmedia.com. You’ll also find many more great programs with archival film footage of operations under former anthracite railroads available.
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Love that livery!
Going to see 2102 and 425 operate on august 13 2022! Excited for the event!
@TehEpikHudson
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I did a video on that
@northpennvalleysteamrailroad
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@@TehEpikHudson I did a lot of videos on it
@TehEpikHudson
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@@northpennvalleysteamrailroad cool
Always great hearing Mike's voice. Yocco's should give him free hot dogs for life for the free advertising. Missing Pop's comments and banter with the crews as he filmed...
Awesome video as always!
Great video again!
Can’t wait to see the next video!
5:55 Lmao "Wakeup call!" "Answer the phone ed!"
Glad they run EMD’s today instead of GE’s!!!!
Wasnt belt “reworked” in 1999? rbmn had 2 lines coming into belt?
Then we're the engines they call the U boats correct
@JPMediaRR
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Correct
@jamescotter5376
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Thank you
@kurt8986
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@@JPMediaRR john do u know big Mike personally?
@JPMediaRR
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@@kurt8986 Yes, Mike does a lot of the narration and commentary for our productions