The one shot I was able to take over a week of NRHS Convention work: R&N 425 executes a shattering runby near Jim Thorpe in the Lehigh Gorge State park.

In the middle of a great roundtrip excursion from Tunkhannock to Jim Thorpe Pennsylvania, 425 gets a spin on the reactivated CNJ turntable. Hard to remember, but this turntable has felt the weight... (more)

With not even so much as an inch to spare, the crew confirms #425 is centered on the old CNJ turntable and prepares her for a spin using a CAT front end loader and chain.

Thanks to some help from fellow fans, this unit is actually a DS4-4-750 previously used by Warner Sand & Gravel. Updates to the info have been submitted. Baldwin built just 53 of these units from ... (more)

Shootin' grease. Two crew members work the grease gun to lubricate the engine's bearings during the lunch stop at Jim Thorpe.

Reading and Northern's blue pacific #425 pulls the first ever steam powered LGSR (Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway) train up to the station in beautiful downtown Jim Thorpe.

Taking second fiddle to the day's main attraction, steam, the R&N's diesel power, both young and old, recieves no fan fare today in Jim Thorpe.

Abstract in blue.

Reading and Northern's High Bridge train holds for traffic just outsid the station at Jim Thorpe

Easy does it!

View from the open platform of R&N caboose 928844 on the Lehigh Gorge Scenic.

Two American flags adorn the front of engine 425 in observance of Independance Day.

It's not too often you see a Pennsy caboose, a Jersey Central F3, and a big blue Pacific side by side, but the scene seems rather fitting based on Jim Thorpe's colorful history as a town where man... (more)