The pride of Reading Tech, C630 5308, poses at Temple, PA during the Blue Mountain and Reading 1988 railfan weekend.

Freshly-restored Pennsylvania Railroad E8 5898 glistens as it sits on a siding on the Blue Mountain and Reading in Temple, PA.

Reading & Northern #425 rounds the cut at Glen Onoko in the Lehigh Gorge just minutes after visiting Nickel Plate #765 made an appearance on the Railroad: Reading & Northern
Locomotive: Steam 4-6-2
Location: Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, USA
Locomotive #: RN 425
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: August 23, 2015

Reading & Northern's 4-6-2 Pacific barrels out of the northern portal of the White Haven tunnel snaking its way through a nearly quarter mile cut while en route to Pittston, PA.

Another day, another spin... What's amazing about this scene is that there is nothing amazing about this scene. Yet again, we see R&N's #425 take a spin on the turntable to orient the engi... (more)

R&N #425 makes an appearance in her new "Gulf and Mobile" inspired livery under a spectacular sky at Mountain Top, PA. This was one of the few, if only time the Sun broke free of what had been a ... (more)

Reading & Northern #425 charges through the backwoods of White Haven, PA under "partly cloudy" skies. Lol - it's true what they say: "A cloudy day with steam is better then a sunny day without!"... (more)

In her new livery, Reading & Northern 4-6-2 #425 passes through "COAL" interlocking at Glenoko just north of Jim Thorpe, PA. The R&N installed this former Reading signal bridge in September 2014.... (more)

Nickel Plate 2-8-4 #765 exits the rarely photographed south portal of the White Haven tunnel en route Jim Thorpe, PA.

Well - that sure as heck ain't R&N #425! Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society's Nickel Plate #765 finds its way back into Pennsylvania in the Summer of 2015. Captured here crossing the Lehigh ... (more)

Reading & Northern 425 is rolling at track speed (40 mph) at Zenners, Pennsylvania, on the former Reading Company line now operated by Reading & Northern. Thanks to Mitch Goldman for doing some e... (more)

Reading & Northern's shiny 4-6-2 takes a spin on the turntable at Jim Thorpe in preparation for the return trip to Port Clinton. Thanks to Mitch Goldman for getting me here! (Long story, but it... (more)

A Roger Puta photograph

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)