{"id":34326,"date":"2022-09-22T07:29:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T11:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=34326"},"modified":"2022-09-22T12:04:55","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T16:04:55","slug":"ho-camels-in-coal-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/ho-camels-in-coal-country\/","title":{"rendered":"HO Camels in Coal Country"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The wee Reading Company has had some new arrivals!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to my long-time friend and expert model railroader, Rich Reed, my model railroad now has a variety of new equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rich painted a Reading class I-8 2-8-0 camelback for me. This is an interim paint job while we search for the appropriate Reading Company decals. He also supplied as wedding gifts; a Reading I-10sa 2-8-0 (with conventional cab arrangement); a tiny Reading Company camelback 0-4-0 similar to the class A-4b No. 1187 that used to live at the Strasburg Rail Road, a selection of Reading Co. freight cars and some buildings and other small structures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I made these photos the other night using my Lumix LX7 to feature some of the additions to my interpretation of coal country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
In the ‘real world,’ Penn Central and Reading Company camelback 2-8-0s missed each other by more than 20 years.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
Look through the trees! That’s a camelback 0-4-0 coming down grade.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
West Cressona Yard has a few new additions thanks to Rich Reed!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
This Penn Central RS-3 and caboose was a gift to me from Ken Buck that predated my wee Reading Company by almost a decade. The models had been his father’s. Look above the caboose and you’ll see the sign that Rich made for me that advertised Bob Buck’s Tucker’s Hobbies of Warren, Massachusetts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
My RDCs now have a wee station to serve at Minersville.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
Schuylkillhaven now has a movie theatre!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Tracking the Light Posts Daily!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks to my long-time friends and expert model railroader, Rich Reed, my model railroad now has a variety of new equipment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34327,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[],"tags":[7336,6618,6616,7535],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/HO_Reading_Company_P1070229.jpg?fit=1700%2C990","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-8VE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34326"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34326"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34346,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34326\/revisions\/34346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}