Reading & Northern 425 coasts through Nesquehoning Tunnel as it nears the end of its first leg of the day's excursion.

Reading & Northern 425 accelerates up the grade just beyond the Hometown Highbridge into the autumn woods.

Heading for Mehoopany A former Santa Fe GP30 leads the Reading & Northern's local job heading for Mehoopany, Penn., where it will switch Proctor & Gamble's Charmin toilet paper plant.

The 425 works its way through Jim Thorpe Jct on the return leg of a fall foliage excursion. The Lehigh Gorge train can be seen waiting for the 425 to clear so it can continue its shove back throug... (more)

Couldn't have asked for more wintery scenes than this charter offered.

Although its paint doesn't show it, RBMN's pride of the fleet, SD40-2 3058, leads an empty tank train down the former Reading Main Line just south of Hamburg. In the distance you can see new-insta... (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)

The matched set of "Fast Freight" SD50-2s turn the excursion consist on the wye at Jim Thorpe Jct.

"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

Reading T-1 No. 2102 leads a special train commemorating the 150th anniversary of the opening of the Little Schuylkill Navigation, Railroad and Coal Company (LSRR) past Pulpit Rock, where preacher... (more)

Heading home out of Taylor.

Reading & Northern's "Fast Freight" (North Reading-Pittston turn) is the premier train on this regional railroad. It runs a rigid schedule and does no work along its run, making a round... (more)

Reading and Northern #425 rushes past a rural Pennsylvania farm on October 23rd, 2021.