Accurate models depend on good prototype information.
Reading Information on the Web
Center for Railroad Photography & Art: A page of Wonderful images of the Reading taken by Donald W. Furler.
Reading page on George Elwood’s Fallen Flags website.
The Alphabet Route: Equipment diagrams as PDF format. Plus a lot more.
Association of American RailRoads Classification of Cars
I finally found a listing of the AAR Freight Car Classifications online today. So I’ve stopped posting the list from my January 1952 ORER. The link below covers ORER’s from 1/1917 – 4/1999.
Reading Company Documents
- Standard Instructions: F-50
Subject – Painting and Marking for Maintenance of Way and Wreck Service Equipment. Marking of cars for ash service. – Reading Company, August 8, 1934
Railroad Documents
- Table of Weights & Dimensions of Rail – AT&SF Document, no publication date
Reading Locomotives
- N1: 2-8-8-0
- K1: 2-10-2
- RS-2: Baldwin AS-16
- DF-1, DF-2, DF-4: EMD Freight Cab Units
- DF-3: ALCO FA-1
- OE-9: EMD NW-2
- OE-10: Baldwin 1000 HP Switchers
Reading Freight Cars
Off-Road Freight Cars
- Pullman PS-1 40′ Boxcars in 1952
- A Day At The Car Shops 1951 – Video
ERCN-TV12 video of the Merchants Dispatch East Rochester Village, NY Car Shops. The video of the shops during 1951-52. The cars being built in the video are MDT steel reefers.