It’s early evening, and the passengers of 1988 NRHS Convention circle trip to Reading should be having dinner or at their hotels. Instead, they are just entering the Allentown area, and will finish their journey in darkness. The feature performer, Nickel Plate 765, hustles the train eastward at Emmaus, Pennsylvania.
The Van Swearingen Brothers standarized freight power for their railroads with nearly identical 2-8-4 Berkshires. Two of these engines are still in excursion service.
