Coming, Going and Gone! While Reading #2102 may have ruled the summer of 2022 thus far on the Reading Blue Mountain & Northern, her sister #425, a 4-6-2 Pacific, is not interested in going quiet... (more)

Coming, Going and Gone! While Reading #2102 may have ruled the summer of 2022 thus far on the Reading Blue Mountain & Northern, her sister #425, a 4-6-2 Pacific, is not interested in going quiet... (more)

The thunderous roar of Reading Blue Mountain & Northern Pacific #425 fills the air outside of Tannery Road on July 9, 2022 as the former GM&O locomotive heads north with the annual Rotary Club tri... (more)

On the home stretch of her southbound journey back to Reading, #2102 splits the signals at CP Clint on the late afternoon of July 2, 2022.

Engineman Ryan Bausher tends to #2102's fire on the afternoon of July 2, 2022 within the former CNJ yard at Jim Thorpe, PA.

Reading T1 #2102 blasts out of Port Clinton on the morning of July 2, 2022 demonstrating that even this heavy hitter can sprint with the best.

Barely breaking a sweat, Reading T1 #2102 marches her excursion train up Hometown Hill on the former CNJ on the afternoon of July 2, 2022.

With tracks literally within yards of their front doors, residents of Nesquehoning may not all be railfans, but they do know when a 4-8-4 locomotive is in town. Here, on July 2, 2022, Reading T1 #... (more)

Passing the RBM&N's wheel truing shop, #2102 looks right at home in territory very familiar to her. The T1 has been most places many steam locomotives haven't including Horseshoe Curve and Cass, W... (more)

Ryan Frederickson, son of Shane Frederickson, throws the switch at the spur leading to the RBM&N steam shops as Reading #2102 warms her cylinders to start her trip south for a day hauling passenge... (more)

Engineer Shane Frederickson inspects his ride for July 2, 2022 as Reading T1 4-8-4 #2102 simmers outside of her home in Port Clinton, PA at the RBM&N steam shops.

"A Reading Ramble Reborn" - Reading & Northern T1 4-8-4 #2102 leads an Iron Horse ramble through the sleepy Berks County town of Leesport, Pennsylvania on the morning of July 2, 2022. Fi... (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)

"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)