"A Reading Ramble Reborn" - Reading & Northern T1 4-8-4 #2102 leads an Iron Horse ramble through the sleepy Berks County town of Leesport, Pennsylvania on the morning of July 2, 2022. Fi... (more)

Reading & Northern #425 blasts out of Tamaqua Tunnel on the morning of October 23, 2021 while hauling the R&N's annual fall foliage excursion between Reading and Jim Thorpe, PA. This is former Rea... (more)

Shane Frederickson, a long time veteran of the Reading & Northern, climbs up to crank R&N #425's mechanical lubricator a couple of turns to ensure adequate lubrication to the crosshead guides and ... (more)

"Father and Son": Shane Frederickson washes down the ashpan of R&N #425 on the early morning of October 23, 2021 as son Ryan Frederickson looks on awaiting the signal to cut the injector... (more)

Night Trick on the Reading & Northern - Reading & Northern #425 - Port Clinton, PA

Silence in the colorful fall valley beneath the Hometown High Bridge outside of Hometown, PA on October 23, 2021 is broken by hustle of Reading & Northern #425 as she heads south on former Central... (more)

Reading & Northern #425 just about tears the town of Leesport, PA apart on the evening of October 23, 2021 as she zips by on the last leg of an annual fall foliage round trip excursion between Rea... (more)

"Angel's Rest" - On September 8, 2021, a Norfolk Southern loaded coal train, headed for export at Norfolk, VA, passes the Celanese plant in Narrows, VA on NS' Whitethorne District. Taken... (more)

Reading & Northern #425 crosses the former CNJ railway bridge at Nesquehoning Junction on the afternoon of July 4, 2021. Below is the Lehigh River flowing to the east and eventually emptying into ... (more)

Reading & Northern, former Gulf Mobile & Ohio, 4-6-2 pacific #425 is in full stride through CP Coal on the Lehigh Division of the R&N on the afternoon of July 4, 2021. Passing old telegraph poles,... (more)

"Fast Freight at White Sulphur": CSXT train H751 speeds west past the passenger platform at White Sulphur Springs, WV on May 22, 2021. Taken at 1/15th a second, perhaps this is close to ... (more)

CSXT #792 leads coal train T21122 east under the eastbound signals at Alderson, WV on the morning of May 22, 2021. Alderson was settled in 1777 by "Elder" John Alderson a frontier missio... (more)

CSXT #7226 leads an eastbound manifest train through Moss Run, Virginia underneath gathering clouds on May 22, 2021.

CSXT train T21122 weaves through the S curves and under the westbound and eastbound facing signals outside of Covington, VA on May 22, 2021. This part of the CSX system, the Allegheny Subdivision ... (more)

CSXT coal train T21122 slides downgrade at Moss Run, VA on May 22, 2021. Leading this train is CSXT #792 an ES44AH, the "H" denoting Heavy. Apparently these units are weighted down with ... (more)