Special Announcement(s)
TO THE MEMBERS OF PHILADELPHIA CHAPTER, NRHS:
Because of production issues, you may expect to receive your June, 2025 issue of CINDERS on the date of our June meeting, Thursday, June 19, 2025.
We would expect to have extra copies on hand at our meeting at Elkins Central Meeting Room on Thursday, June 19, 2025. Members should expect to received their mail copies on Thursday, June 19.
Please note that there will be a Summer Issue of CINDERS issued toward the end of July.
R. L. EASTWOOD, JR., President and Editor
June 16, 2025.
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The Philadelphia Chapter of the
National Railway Historical Society
Established 1936
Coatesville is forty miles west of Philadelphia and has been an important steel town since it was Lukens. Today the plant is owned by Cliffs and continues to make plate steel in electric arc furnaces. Norfolk Southern serves the plant via the Pennsylvania RR, now Amtrak Keystone Line to Harrisburg. They use a steep connection from Amtrak to the former Reading Co, Wilmington and Northern line. Once inside the plant they drop / pickup cars and make interchange with the Brandywine Valley RR.
On Halloween 2022, we observe NS 6915 EMD SD60E and NS 4035 GE AC44 heading up a long train heading south over the Brandywine Creek into the plant. Late fall color abounds the former Reading traction
Photo by Eric Dervinis
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