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RCT&HS Ex-Reading GP-30 5513

• 5513 running around a train at Hamburg
• Standard beauty shot
• 5513 at RBM&N open house, Port Clinton Pa

• LENGTH 56'2"
• WHEEL DIAMETER 40"
• WEIGHT ON DRIVING WHEELS 253,500 lbs.
• TOTAL WEIGHT 253,500 lbs.
• FACTOR OF ADHESION 25%
• CONTINUOUS RATING TRACTIVE EFFORT 48,500 lbs. @ 12 m.p.h.
• MAX. PERMISSIBLE SPEED 71 m.p.h.
• ENGINE G.M. 567D3 2250 H.P. Two Cycle V-Type

• 1962 April 12: Purchased from the Electro-motive division of General Electric at the cost of $200,000. It was the first GP-30 delivered to any railroad. It was the first of Reading's initial order of 20 GP-30s.
• 1987 (un): Acquired by The Reading Company Technical & Historical Society from Conrail. It was restored by RCT&HS to it's original Reading Green and Yellow.
• 1989 March: Joined Historic EMD Locomotives at LaGrange, IL, for anniversary of Electro-motive Division.
• 1989+: Ran excursions on Conrail, Reading, Blue Mountain & Northern, and Blue Mountain & Reading.
• Currently: Out of service due to damaged turbo-charger.