All in a Day’s Work

The Reading, Blue Mountain & Northern serves a small explosives manufacturing plant at Mount Carmel Junction, Pennsylvania. Since there is no runaround track ... (more)

After slowing to make sure that no one is going to slide into the grade crossing, the engineer notches out Reading, Blue Mountain & Northern U33B 3301 as it works through the sleepy village of Loc... (more)

The newest addition to the Reading and Northern fleet leads the PNFF-10 across the Hometown High Bridge on the return trip to Port Clinton. This was the first run for the 2535 in revenue service. ... (more)

425 blasts out of Tamaqua Tunnel with her short passenger consist during a Lerro Productions photo runby

CNJ #113, disguised as CNJ #115, marches her way with her train into the yard north of Minersville Station. Fans from across the area, came to see the anthracite burning steam locomotive pull the ... (more)

A gloomy Winter evening begins to set in over the Little Schuylkill River Valley as train WHFF2-20 exits Tamaqua Yard right on schedule. The train departed West Hazleton approximately one hour bef... (more)

Heavy sleet falls as a classic set of streamlined Budd RDC's from the Reading and Northern Railroad pass through the quaint "patch town" of Delano, PA. The duo of RDC's are operating on rare milea... (more)

PNFF-12 with its duo of SD50s exits the west portal of the Tamaqua Tunnel with a nice coating of snow covering the landscape.

The 3:00 PM R&N excursion throttles up and starts its journey west. The ride goes to "Old Penn Haven" before the engine will run around its train and continue back east to Jim Thrope.

The R&N's Minersville Job sits beside CNJ 113 and an observation car at the Minersville station. With all of its work on the Minersville Running Track complete, the train will soon pull south towa... (more)

With Reading & Northern SD40-2 3054 for power, the Minersville Job shifts plalstics hoppers at Tredegar Film Products. Photo taken on railroad property with an employee escort.

On February 26, Reading and Northern's C&S crews cut in the new Tamaqua Interlocking, which utilizes former Reading Company hardware that has been restored and placed back into service. For the fi... (more)

After swapping cuts of refrigerated boxcars at Packerton Junction, the Port Clinton Fast Freight works upgrade at Ametek, just west (railroad south) of Nesquehoning.

With the deafening roar of two SD50s in notch 8, the Port Clinton Fast Freight puts on a show running northbound at the Tamaqua Tunnel. A few inches of snow blanketed the Appalachians earlier in t... (more)