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Reading Co. Camelback Ten-Wheeler

By Mitch Horner | January 23, 2026

A black and white photograph a steam locomotive and tender leading a passenger train through a grade crossing

As a crossing watchman stands guard, Reading Camelback 4-6-0 No. 608 brings a Newtown, Pa.–Philadelphia local into Fox Chase station in 1948. Leslie R. Ross photo

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Güntürk Üstün says:

January 23, 2026 at 3:46 pm

Note that Reading camelback 4-6-0 #608 was built in 1910 and scrapped in 1948.

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