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Title: |
Reading GP7 #621 |
Description: |
Digital image from Kim E. Piersol original 35mm Ektachrome transparency. Coming off the Reading & Columbia Branch |
Photo Date: |
6/1/1972 Upload Date: 11/17/2006 7:27:37 PM |
Location: |
Sinking Spring, PA |
Author: |
Kim Piersol |
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Locomotives: |
RDG 621(GP7) |
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960 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Reading Alco RS3 #466 |
Description: |
Digital image from Kim E. Piersol original 35mm Agfachrome transparency |
Photo Date: |
6/1/1973 Upload Date: 8/2/2006 8:56:54 PM |
Location: |
West Wyomissing, PA |
Author: |
Kim Piersol |
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Locomotives: |
RDG 466(RS3) RDG 621(GP7) |
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651 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Reading GP7 #621 |
Description: |
Digital image from Kim E. Piersol original 35mm Kodachrome transparency. |
Photo Date: |
6/1/1973 Upload Date: 4/14/2006 6:54:23 PM |
Location: |
Sinking Spring, PA |
Author: |
Kim Piersol |
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Locomotives: |
RDG 621(GP7) |
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587 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
rdg 621 |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
2/1/1974 Upload Date: 9/16/2011 7:14:49 PM |
Location: |
Reading, PA |
Author: |
bob gottschall |
Categories: |
Roster |
Locomotives: |
RDG 621(GP7) |
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361 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
RDG 621 |
Description: |
567 B The Heart of Ex RDG 621 |
Photo Date: |
12/30/2004 Upload Date: 2/25/2008 9:54:55 PM |
Location: |
East Greenville, PA |
Author: |
Tim Weidner |
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Locomotives: |
RDG 621(GP7) |
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532 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
RDG 621 |
Description: |
Cab Interior of 621 its like going back in time to 1953 |
Photo Date: |
12/6/2005 Upload Date: 2/25/2008 9:48:03 PM |
Location: |
East Greenville, PA |
Author: |
Tim Weidner |
Categories: |
InCab |
Locomotives: |
RDG 621(GP7) |
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715 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
RDG 621 |
Description: |
EX RDG 621 getting ready for shipment to Hamburg |
Photo Date: |
8/11/2007 Upload Date: 2/25/2008 9:37:27 PM |
Location: |
East Greenville, PA |
Author: |
Tim Weidner |
Categories: |
Night |
Locomotives: |
RDG 621(GP7) RPCX 1506(GP7) |
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562 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
RDG 621 |
Description: |
Ex RDG 621 on it's way way to the RCT&HS Museum in Hamburg PA |
Photo Date: |
1/17/2008 Upload Date: 2/24/2008 11:42:54 PM |
Location: |
Emmaus, PA |
Author: |
Tim Weidner |
Categories: |
Winter |
Locomotives: |
MPA 1506(GP7) RDG 621(GP7) MPA 86(GP7) RPCX 1506(GP7) |
Views: |
1411 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
RDG 621 |
Description: |
Ex RDG 621 on home rails going through CP Belt on its way to Hamburg |
Photo Date: |
1/22/2008 Upload Date: 2/25/2008 10:10:23 PM |
Location: |
Reading, PA |
Author: |
Tim Weidner |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
RDG 621(GP7) NS 3039(GP40-2) |
Views: |
650 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
RDG 621 |
Description: |
RDG 621 At its new home in Hamburg PA Plans for this locomotive are to eventually return it to service and repaint it in its RDG colors. |
Photo Date: |
2/20/2008 Upload Date: 2/25/2008 2:21:05 PM |
Location: |
Hamburg, PA |
Author: |
Tim Weidner |
Categories: |
Roster |
Locomotives: |
RDG 621(GP7) MPA 1506(GP7) |
Views: |
817 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
New Geep for the Reading Museum |
Description: |
The Reading Museum at Hamburg has just recently taken delivery of former Reading 621 donated by the East Penn Railway. The unit will be repainted into the livery similar to the switcher in front. |
Photo Date: |
3/27/2008 Upload Date: 3/31/2008 6:39:20 PM |
Location: |
Hamburg, PA |
Author: |
Paul Koprowski |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
RDG 103(NW2) MPA 1506(GP7) RDG 621(GP7) RDG 5308(C630) |
Views: |
938 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
RDG 621 |
Description: |
The Ex Reading Geep at night |
Photo Date: |
4/19/2008 Upload Date: 5/9/2008 3:49:25 AM |
Location: |
Hamburg, PA |
Author: |
Tim Weidner |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
RDG 621(GP7) MPA 1506(GP7) |
Views: |
517 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
MPA 1506 |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
7/27/2008 Upload Date: 7/28/2008 9:51:34 PM |
Location: |
Hamburg, PA |
Author: |
Tim Weidner |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
MPA 1506(GP7) RDG 621(GP7) |
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331 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
RDG 621 |
Description: |
Geep at night |
Photo Date: |
7/27/2008 Upload Date: 7/28/2008 9:52:15 PM |
Location: |
Hamburg, PA |
Author: |
Tim Weidner |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
RDG 621(GP7) MPA 1506(GP7) |
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296 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
MPA 1506 |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
7/27/2008 Upload Date: 7/28/2008 9:52:51 PM |
Location: |
Hamburg, PA |
Author: |
Tim Weidner |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
MPA 1506(GP7) RDG 621(GP7) |
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318 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
MPA 1506 |
Description: |
Geep posing at night |
Photo Date: |
7/27/2008 Upload Date: 7/28/2008 9:53:30 PM |
Location: |
Hamburg, PA |
Author: |
Tim Weidner |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
MPA 1506(GP7) RDG 621(GP7) |
Views: |
342 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
MPA 1506 |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
7/27/2008 Upload Date: 7/28/2008 9:54:03 PM |
Location: |
Hamburg, PA |
Author: |
Tim Weidner |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
MPA 1506(GP7) RDG 621(GP7) |
Views: |
344 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
MPA 1506 |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
7/27/2008 Upload Date: 7/28/2008 9:54:53 PM |
Location: |
Hamburg, PA |
Author: |
Tim Weidner |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
MPA 1506(GP7) RDG 621(GP7) |
Views: |
326 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
MPA 1506 |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
9/7/2009 Upload Date: 9/9/2009 8:34:36 PM |
Location: |
Hamburg, PA |
Author: |
Brandon Kaback |
Categories: |
Roster |
Locomotives: |
MPA 1506(GP7) RDG 621(GP7) |
Views: |
335 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
MPA 1506 |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
9/7/2009 Upload Date: 9/8/2009 6:21:33 PM |
Location: |
Hamburg, PA |
Author: |
Eric Kreszl |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
MPA 1506(GP7) RDG 621(GP7) |
Views: |
466 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
MPA 1506 |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
9/7/2009 Upload Date: 9/8/2009 6:21:53 PM |
Location: |
Hamburg, PA |
Author: |
Eric Kreszl |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
MPA 1506(GP7) RDG 621(GP7) |
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463 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
MPA 1506 / RDG 621 |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
5/21/2011 Upload Date: 5/24/2011 11:51:25 AM |
Location: |
Hamburg, PA |
Author: |
Greg Wiltsie |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
MPA 1506(GP7) RDG 621(GP7) |
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498 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
MPA 1506 / RDG 621 |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
5/21/2011 Upload Date: 5/24/2011 11:51:58 AM |
Location: |
Hamburg, PA |
Author: |
Greg Wiltsie |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
MPA 1506(GP7) RDG 621(GP7) |
Views: |
454 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
RDG 621 |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
2/17/2018 Upload Date: 2/17/2018 8:42:17 PM |
Location: |
Hamburg, PA |
Author: |
Kevin Painter |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
RDG 621(GP7) |
Views: |
537 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
First Generation Long Hood Nose Detail |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
3/17/2018 Upload Date: 4/18/2018 2:54:33 PM |
Location: |
Hamburg, PA |
Author: |
Paul Koprowski |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
RDG 621(GP7) |
Views: |
183 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Front End Comparisons |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
3/17/2018 Upload Date: 4/18/2018 2:56:09 PM |
Location: |
Hamburg, PA |
Author: |
Paul Koprowski |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
RDG 621(GP7) RDG 5308(C630) |
Views: |
231 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
RDG 621 |
Description: |
Reading Company 621 is a GP7, constructed as part of an order of sixteen units ordered from EMD by the railroad in the spring of 1953. This would be the largest order of these units acquired, the total number of GP7s operated being forty four. Number 621 came equipped with dynamic braking for freight service and served throughout the RDG system that stretched through Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and a small part of Delaware. Unlike many of its sister units, the 621 would never make it to Conrail, having been sold off to Emmons controlled shortline Maryland & Pennsylvania a month before the official startup of Big Blue. Operated around York, PA for a little over twenty years, the locomotive would be reassigned to home rails along the Perkiomen Branch with the takeover of the Penn Eastern Rail Lines by Emmons in the late 1990s. Never operated on the Perk due to some mechanical issues the ex-RDG unit, by this time numbered as MPA 1506, was stored and soon acquired for preservation by the museum. It is currently the only member of the Reading's GP7 fleet in preservation, although a few more exist in operation of various shortlines around the country. Like many GP series units from the 1950s, the 621 is set up for long hood forward operation. |
Photo Date: |
3/17/2018 Upload Date: 4/18/2018 2:58:41 PM |
Location: |
Hamburg, PA |
Author: |
Paul Koprowski |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
RDG 621(GP7) |
Views: |
305 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
RDG 621 |
Description: |
RDG 621 lays dormant under cloudy skies at the Reading Railroad Heritage Museum. |
Photo Date: |
4/20/2019 Upload Date: 4/23/2019 12:57:07 PM |
Location: |
Hamburg, PA |
Author: |
Ryne Birdsong |
Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
Locomotives: |
RDG 621(GP7) |
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281 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
RDG 621 Second Broadside Shot |
Description: |
A second shot (copy) of RDG 621 (broadside) .The platform seen is where I stood to get the interior cab shots of this locomotive. |
Photo Date: |
11/11/2023 Upload Date: 5/25/2024 9:51:30 AM |
Location: |
Hamburg, PA |
Author: |
Steve Coraggio |
Categories: |
Roster,Winter,Yard,Track |
Locomotives: |
RDG 621(GP7) |
Views: |
67 Comments: 4 |
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Title: |
RDG 621 |
Description: |
First broadside shot of RDG 621. |
Photo Date: |
11/11/2023 Upload Date: 5/25/2024 9:50:34 AM |
Location: |
Hamburg, PA |
Author: |
Steve Coraggio |
Categories: |
Roster,Winter,Yard,Track |
Locomotives: |
RDG 621(GP7) |
Views: |
58 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
RDG 621 & RDG 5513 |
Description: |
Front to cab shot of RDG 621 and long hood to can shot of RDG 5513 |
Photo Date: |
11/11/2023 Upload Date: 5/25/2024 10:16:58 AM |
Location: |
Hamburg, PA |
Author: |
Steve Coraggio |
Categories: |
Roster,Winter,Yard,Track |
Locomotives: |
RDG 621(GP7) RDG 5513(GP30) |
Views: |
68 Comments: 4 |
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Title: |
RDG 621 Close up cab shot |
Description: |
Close up shot of RDG 621 cab, it's class RS-3, horsepower 1500hp |
Photo Date: |
11/11/2023 Upload Date: 5/25/2024 10:18:12 AM |
Location: |
Hamburg, PA |
Author: |
Steve Coraggio |
Categories: |
Roster,Winter,Yard,Track |
Locomotives: |
RDG 621(GP7) |
Views: |
56 Comments: 4 |
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