The not-normally photographed end of Reading Tech’s restored C630 is leading an excursion out of South Hamburg, Pennsylvania. The big Alco is still in South Hamburg today, but it’s unlikely th... (more)

Coming Soon to a Mob Scene In Anthracite Country

Reading 4-8-4 2102 is the first fan-tripper that I ever photographed, in 1973 with an instamatic camera and print film. It was disg... (more)

A well-patronized Souderton Railroad Days excursion passes the former Reading water tank at Rockhill, Pennsylvania.

Reading Company's 4-8-4 No. 2124, a recipient of a recent cosmetic restoration, is seen in the yard at Steamtown parked next to the Philadelphia Chapter of the NRHS's FP7 #903 (mated to the Readin... (more)

Reading Technical & Historical Society’s newly-restored GP30 is at the south end of the Souderton Railroad Days excursion seen from the Rockhill Road overpass in Rockhill, Pennsylvania.

Reading Company Technical and Historical Society's #902, sitting back to back with the Philadelphia Chapter of the NRHS's #903 at Steamtown in 2016. No's 902 and 903 were among of the first six F... (more)

A Reading C424 hovers in the greasy, oily gunk that was the foundation of the Lehigh Valley’s Bethlehem Terminal. The Reading C424’s were among the early-production versions that had the radia... (more)

A Reading GP35 and a Penn Central GP30 run light near Steel Tower in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

A Reading Company trainman checks his waybills as his power passes through Saucon Yard in Hellertown, Pennsylvania. Soon he will be on his way west toward Reading.

Did you ever wonder who so many concrete coaling towers remain in place, straddling busy main lines long after steam has disappeared from the rails? These structures were built from yards and yard... (more)

Where once Reading Camelbacks, RDC's and RS-3's ran, an older couple walk along the former Reading Company ROW, part of the expanding Pennypack Trail. The surviving station was built in 1902 and ... (more)

Reading's Bryn Athyn Station

Built by the Reading Railroad in 1902, this station sits near the Pennypack Creek in Bryn Athyn and was part of Reading Company's Newtown Branch. It later... (more)

Towerman Joe Coulter in his ever-present fedora hands train orders to the crew of a cab hop. The GP35, GP30 combo with matching caboose in Reading's attractive yellow and green image was most like... (more)

Reading Terminal

Built in 1893 by the Reading Company, this passenger terminal and company headquarters is located in the heart of downtown Philadelphia at the corner of 12th and Market S... (more)

AMTK No. 646 leads a southbound Regional Express into the station at Aberdeen, MD.

Built in 1943 by the Pennsylvania Railroad, this utilitarian station, barely one story tall with a large over... (more)