The snow is falling and the peaceful sound of the Lehigh River is replaced by the deafening roar of the Reading & Norther 425 speeding along to Jim Thorpe. A Lerro Productions / Lerro Photography ... (more)

Reading & Northern 425 pulls a short passenger train on the bridge over the Little Schuylkill River at Webster on the Main Line.

Reading and Northern 425 roars into the tunnel in Nesquehoning. A pair of ear plugs was a good investment against 425's exhaust.

After sitting all night at the station 425 comes alive as she gets ready to back down to the main for the first run-by of the day.

An unlikely doubleheader of a 4-6-2 & 0-6-0 is pulling the 11:00 a.m. train back to Minersville; one of three trains operated that day. The 425 was built for the Gulf, Mobile, and Northern by Bal... (more)

R&N 425 steps across the Hometown High Bridge with the season's first Autumn Leaf Trip. Colors around the Little Schuylkill River hadn't quite peaked this early in October, but a handful of vivid... (more)

Reading & Northern 425 always puts on a great show as seen here working towards Jim Thorpe.

Reading & Northern's seasonal steam powered excursion from Port Clinton to Jim Thorpe has a meet at Nesquehoning Jct with the Hometown High Bridge excursion and freshly painted RN 3050 bringing up... (more)

After dropping off a crew member 425 proceeds forward to make way for the crews to move the coaches around.

425 still shining in her new paint pulls a train of leaf peepers through Zenners on the way to Jim Thorpe.

The disciples watch as the deity is groomed in the uniquely named Jim Thorpe PA. Where once endless trains of Pennsylvania's black wealth were prepared for the journey through New Jersey to New Yo... (more)

On the return trip from Jim Thorpe to Port Clinton, the fireman works the stoker (a.k.a. a coal scoop and foot pedal) to bring pressure up for the run up Hometown Hill, a long and hard climb which... (more)

Now drifting downgrade, R&N 425 has just met one of the day's Hometown High Bridge trains at Ametek, on the west side of Nesquehoning. The fall colors were ablaze in the Lehigh Valley on this day.

On a crystal-clear and incredibly colorful fall day, Reading & Northern Pacific 425 puts on a jaw-dropping show on her run from Port Clinton to Jim Thorpe for the October 11th Autumn Leaf Special.... (more)

Almost that time of year again, when we can enjoy the sites and sounds of the little blue pacific that can.