Bringing up the markers on a Blue Mountain & Reading Temple, Pennsylvania – Philadelphia excursion is BM&R observation car 300. The passengers seem to be enjoying the view from the platform as t... (more)

A Blue Mountain & Reading Temple, Pennsylvania – Philadelphia excursion has turned at West Falls. and is now accelerating through the curve at Belmont. Reading 4-8-4 2102 looks right at home in ... (more)

Getting to stretch its legs on a Temple, Pennsylvania – Philadelphia excursion, Reading 4-8-4 2102 is backing its train across the Schuylkill River in the West Falls section of Philadelphia. The... (more)

After picking up some cars from Universal Forest Products, Reading & Northern’s “mountain job” makes a departure from Gordon, Pennsylvania. I’m not sure of the circumstances leading to lea... (more)

One-half of the Reading & Northern’s road power is on the siding for Universal Forest Products in Gordon, Pennsylvania.

Reading & Northern’s “mountain job” drifts into Gordon Pennsylvania. It looks like those two Norfolk Southern box cars were on their first revenue assignment when they took newsprint to Inte... (more)

With its train put together after a pickup at Gordon, Pennsylvania, Reading & Northern’s “mountain job” departs for Tamaqua.

After picking up two cars from Universal Forest Products in Gordon, Pennsylvania, the crew of Reading & Northern’s “mountain job” returns to its train.

The Reading & Northern “mountain job” serves Universal Forest Products in Gordon, Pennsylvania. The customer’s lumber business is located on the one-time site of the Reading locomotive facil... (more)

A little over a year after the Reading & Northern acquired the former Reading main line west of Reading, the “mountain job” rolls into Gordon, Pennsylvania after serving its westernmost custom... (more)

Grand Trunk GP38-2 5818 rests in the Detroit & Toledo Shore Line yard in Toledo. Ohio.

Hump Lead on a Bridge

A Detroit & Toledo Shore Line yard job at Long Yard in Toledo, Ohio shoves a cut of cars across the Ottawa River and over the hump. A look at Google Maps indi... (more)

Expressway for Industry

The Detroit & Toledo Shore Line served industries in and between its namesake cities starting in 1903. The Shore Line supplied a lot of traffic to the Clev... (more)

A pair of Detroit & Toledo Shoreline SW9’s works the Toledo hump on a beautiful May afternoon.

A southbound Delaware & Hudson GP38-2 manifest rolls into Nineveh Junction, New York. Just ahead is the point where the main once split between the Penn Division to Wilkes-Barre and the Belden Hil... (more)