Reading & Northern EMD SW8s 801 and 800 have just completed swapping five coal loads for five empty hoppers on a beautiful autumn afternoon at Good Spring, PA. The crew is about to run around thei... (more)

A southbound Reading & Northern train has departed Minersville, Pa., heading back to Port Clinton.

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.

Under a beautiful setting sun, the Reading turn heads south amid beautiful Autumn colors.

Reading And Northern 425 looks good in black and white

Reading And Northern 425 blast out of the short tunnel at RT 93

While the railroad was quiet, the sky was not. Within moments of taking this image, the photographer was drenched. But I got the shot of impending doom with the diesels in the spot of sun.

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)

Reading and Northern 425 steams westbound through Tamaqua PA towards Jim Thorpe PA on a beautiful fall morning. This train was a part of their Autumn Leaf excursion trips.

425 storms upgrade through Tamaqua, PA

Reading and Northern 425 rounds a corner surrounded by the first of fall color

Reading & Northern conductor Kyle Sanders works on his paperwork outside the R&N office at Port Clinton before putting his train back together for the rest of the trip north to Tamaqua with inboun... (more)