WHHB prepares to pick up some covered hoppers loaded with dried coal at Hazleton Shaft.

One of RBMN's West Hazleton jobs works Hazleton Shaft, picking up some covered hoppers loaded with dried anthracite coal for steel making.

H66 passes a mine east of Hazleton. The tracks were relocated here within the last decade, and used to operate through what's now an open pit.

Two SD50s and a train of former Rio Grande hoppers heads around the Beltway on the NS Hazleton Running Track with a train of cars that'll run to NS at North Reading Yard.

H97 works the Humboldt Industrial Park west of Hazleton with a pair of ex-CR SD40-2s for power. Today, this trackage is operated by the Reading & Northern.

The "culm train" for Panther Creek makes its weekly trip down the NS Hazleton Running Track in the snow.

An RBMN coal train for Jeddo heads through downtown Hazleton on NS rails.

WHJE pulls east with 32 cars bound for Jeddo.

Reading & Northern empty coal train WHJE passes the Stockton Mine east of Hazleton, PA. They're traversing the NS Hazleton Running Track as symbol KH09 to gain access back to home rails a bit furt... (more)

A Winter sunset beautifully illuminates the West Hazleton "Fast Freight" as they prepare to head south at Oneida Junction. The crew will make a fast run down the Reading and Northern's Hazleton Li... (more)

NS 1071, NS 1074, & CP 8811 work the Hazleton Yard as the power for H99.

The CNJ and The Lackawanna heritage units work Hazleton Yard together; two railroads that had such a great influence on the area.

NS heritage unit 8103 is basking in the afternoon sun post making the run with H-67 train to Hazleton Yard. Just a different view. Photo was obtained on NS Property with permission by NS.

A pair of SD50's slowly lead a train of export coal bound for Fairless, PA through downtown Hazleton.

The Jeddo Job, loaded with culm (waste anthracite coal), rounding the curve near Beaver Meadow Mt. Road east of Hazleton. The yellow locomotive, ex-UP 3066 now RBMN 3057, was recently purchased ... (more)