Reading & Northern's first fully completed GP39RN starts her very first work as she is shifting out cars in Reading Yard, in Reading, Pa. This will be the inaugural run for the very first painted... (more)

Reading & Northern's first fully completed GP39RN poses in the last afternoon sun as she is shifting out cars in Reading Yard, in Reading, Pa. This will be the inaugural run for the very first pa... (more)

RBMN Train PNJT, the local from Port Clinton to Jim Thorpe, is being put together with the assistance of the yard crew. The train will depart the yard shortly with a short stone train.

Reading & Northern's first fully completed GP39RN poses for her very first ever night shot in Port Clinton Yard, in Port Clinton, Pa! The unit is an Ex-ATSF and will be paired with one of her soo... (more)

One of RBMN's newly acquired former ATSF 'Bluebonnets' leads the Tamaqua to Reading turn job south through Zehners on their way to Port Clinton. Normally, a second one of these units would accompa... (more)

Reading and Northern 425 leads a few hopper cars through the fall colors.

An Air products heat exchanger drops down into Jim Thorpe and eventually on to Lehighton where R&N will drop it off for the night and NS will come pick it up early Friday morning for shipment to t... (more)

An Ex Santa Fe GP39RN leads a one car QARG onto NS rails at CP BELT. It wont be long before this Santa Fe bluebonnet is repainted into Reading and Northern colors.

EMD power at rest for the weekend.

Ballast Extra with SD38 2003 leading. The train will eventually be picked up by the PILE and brought up to Mountain Top where they will begin ballasting the Lehigh Division.

Reading and Northern QARG-06 is seen completing their brake test, after serving Kore Mart Limited, at West Hamburg, PA. Within minutes the classic Geep will have the Reading Turn on the move south... (more)

Bringing the black diamonds into Tamaqua.

Not many places where you can see a RDC Budd, and SW8 and then a SD38

An R&N coal train full of Famous Reading Anthracite coal rolls through a crossing just north of Tamaqua, PA.

It's hard to believe that it's been a quarter of a century since the Blue Mountain & Reading was the hottest thing in tourist railroads in the northeast. Railfan weekends were a mob scene as a Rea... (more)