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They drop right in the holes, it goes plunger spring plunger. The spring is here www.crosscreektractor.com/default.aspx?page=item%20detail&itemcode=310960, here is a link of assembly www.crosscreektractor.com/default.aspx?page=item%20detail&itemcode=310960

They should have gotten the track a bit further south into Albany in 1972 and built a passing track if there wasn’t any. Not sure if there would be room to build one along the existing track at the south end.

How about have a diesel at each end of the train? Problem solved. They normally run around at Wanamaker and Kempton. To go to North Albany they would need to have a second diesel at the other end of the train to return to Kempton. But they run backwards on the short stretch past Wanamaker from the end of the line back to the Wanamaker station to do the runaround move on the passing track.

RBMN has way more track than WK&S. And the 2102 and 425 and 113. What steam is WK&S running right now? None.

@@robkrasinski6217 just because they are not running steam does not mean you can’t visit this place. I love Steam just as much as you do but it does not mean I would reject visiting a tourist railroad or museum that is only running diesel or electrics if it’s on my route of travel. It never hurts to help out any tourist railroad or museum by paying for a ticket or sending them a little donation to help keep these places going.

@@robkrasinski6217 Trust me, even without steam, this place has a unique charm all its own. The whole area surrounding the station and tracks that it runs on are so quiet and peaceful. No traffic, no crowds, no rush. Its like its own little world.

Are you Josh Drumm? I like your Trainz routes. I tried to improve your NS Reading line and RBMN was updated for TANE and 19 with compatible trees replacing the pofig ones. I added DEM from Hamburg to Reading. I just rode behind 2102 from Reading last Saturday. I rode behind it twice before, Apr 1988 South Hamburg to Temple and Sept. 7, 1991 from Emmaus to Pennsburg. Emmaus is only a few miles from me. BM&R ran that line and the Kutztown and Boyertown ex-Reading branches from 1988 or 1989 to July 1995 and they were sold to the East Penn RR. Now East Penn only has the Emmaus-Pennsburg line and the other two are tourist railroads.

@@robkrasinski6217 I am. I'm glad to see that the old route is still being used in 2022 and are still enjoying it. I've been out of Trainz for quite a while now, now that I have 3 kids (and 2 dogs, 3 cats, and 10 chickens). We live 15 minutes from Kempton and 20 from Hamburg. Take the kids to Strasburg, Kempton, and on the Lehigh Gorge Scenic about once a year. My 3 year old is absolutely obsessed with trains. I'll have to get him into Trainz in a couple years. Maybe he can finish up the 1930's rendition of the RDG Schuylkill and Lehigh Branch that I had started years ago. 😉

The only markings that exist is the builder tag with the serial number, Fairmont was able to retrieve the serial number, It was built on 8/20/1947 and shipped on 9/15/1947 for the Chestnut Ridge Railway Palmerton Pa. Here is my FB album for the complete build of this. I still have to fabricate the roof and front. facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2978411482236306&type=3

Long ago they made a small trolley for that exact purpose, they named it the BERKSY. I think it sometimes ran the whole route. It was eventually sold to a museum (I don't remember where), and I think it still exists wherever it is at.

@@kanechrist4213 It was sold in 1997 to a museum in Savannah, GA and now it’s on a tourist railroad in North Carolina and was made into an open sided trolley. I rode it on the WK&S in the early 1980’s and it went on the track south through Kempton to North Albany on the return trip from Wanamaker. The steam train used to run to North Albany in the 70’s on the last train of the day but that ended. It’s a shame they couldn’t get the track at least to Lenhartsville in 1972 when the Reading pulled out of Kempton and only ran as far as Evansville to the cement plant which continued under Conrail and now NS but not sure if the plant is still operating, the scrapper donated the track to North Albany. They originally wanted to go from Kempton to Germansville but a stubborn landowner past Wanamaker caused the line to end along Rt. 143.

Imagine if the track to kutztown was still in tact it could be a Cass/Durbin type of a ride

I'm rebuilding one right now as we I text

Does anyone know of a rebuild video for this power steering?

A dremel, very carefully

The track currently stops at Bear Christmas tree farm a mile south from Kempton. At one time it did go to reading.

Michael Martin thank you very much! Those speeder videos you make are awesome! I always like to wonder where the tracks end up. Great history there.