The Reading and Northern’s corporate roots are the Blue Mountain & Reading, a 13-mile short line connecting Hamburg with a connection with Conrail at Temple, Pennsylvania. Later developing an ex... (more)

Blue Mountain & Reading Railfan NW2 413 has a small maintenance of way train with a single flat car rolling south from South Hamburg, Pennsylvania.

A Blue Mountain and Reading work train pauses next to the one-time PRR station at Shoemakersville, Pennsylvania. The residents of the structure at the time were apparently fine with living in a r... (more)

One of Blue Mountain & Reading’s first locomotives was NW2 413. Built as Erie 413, the EMD switcher is seen here with a southbound work train just north of Leesport, Pennsylvania.