| United Railroad Historical Society of New Jersey sent the Reading painted F7A from their collection. Order #8552, build date October 1949, original owner: Chicago & Northwestern RR, #4074A, nee #424. NJ Transit acquired this locomotive from the C&NW in 1983 and utilized it as #424 primarily from Hoboken to Dover and Waldwick. It was retired in 1985, stored and donated to the museum collection in 1991. It has been restored to represent a Reading Company locomotive of the same type that operated through central New Jersey between Jersey City, Port Reading and points south and west |