Five SD40-2s lead the NRFF across the bridge at White Haven PA. The second unit is painted for the 40th anniversary of the Reading and Northern.

The North Reading Fast Freight emerges from the North end of the 926 foot long Tamaqua Tunnel. Built in 1854 by the Philadelphia and Reading RR for the primary purpose of moving Anthracite Coal.

A pair of SD40-2s pass the crowd at Jim Thorpe Jct. as they bring the JTOS train back into town. Though classics in their own right, the crowd's interest is not in them but Reading T-1 2102 on the... (more)

A North Reading Extra crew that acted as protect power for the day's 2102 excursion shoves the train around the new wye bridge over the Lehigh River.

A set of SD40-2s wye an excursion train after its arrival at Jim Thorpe.

JTQA brings 28 empties back to Tamaqua with a single SD40-2 for power.

QARG cuts through the farmland north of Port Clinton with a cut of anthracite from Shenandoah on the headend.

The southbound "Reading Turn" heads through Molino with a train of outbound traffic for NS.

Conductor Chip Allen gives a wave as NRFF passes through East Mahanoy Jct. on a cool fall day.

With later southbound runs of the PIFF departing Pittston at 18:55-19:00 the light gets harder to come by including the rainy weather not being too much good, I fell back on my Godox TT600's to il... (more)

Two miles up the mountain between Tamaqua and Haucks, NRFF is already well below track speed as gravity fights the 12,000 horsepower that the railroad has thrown at this 7100-ton train.

With 52 loads and 7100 tons in tow, NRFF's four second-generation EMDs notch out as its last car has entered the Main Line at Tuckerton. Even with 12,000 horsepower on the head end, this train wil... (more)

A Reading & Northern freight heads North through the Pennsylvania mountains for their Pittston Transload in Pittston PA on a summer evening.

Reading & Northern 3052 crosses into Luzurne County as this section of track parallels south Main Street near Old Forge. View more of my photos at http://mst145.rrpicturearchives.net

The Jeddo Job, loaded with culm (waste anthracite coal), rounding the curve near Beaver Meadow Mt. Road east of Hazleton. The yellow locomotive, ex-UP 3066 now RBMN 3057, was recently purchased ... (more)