Reading "Big Dutch Mike"         
A Reading M1sa "Big Dutch Mike" leads an Autumn afternoon westbound on the "platform track" as seen from Camp Meeting Avenue overpass. It's a good bet that this freight stopped to do work at pesticide maker Goulard & Olena. Reading's Big Dutch Mikes were Baldwin products (except for the class engine, #1700, from the Reading shops). CKF lived in nearby Blawenburg at the time and would ride his bike to the Skillman depot or get a ride from his mom, who worked at Skillman & Skillman Realty.
Date: 9/1/1947 Location: Skillman, NJ   Map Show Skillman on a rail map Views: 1430 Collection Of:   Charles Knox Freericks
Locomotives: RDG 170X(2-8-2)    Author:  Charles Knox Freericks
Reading "Big Dutch Mike"
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