Reading & Northern SD-50s 5033 /5049 power train LEPI (Lehighton-Pittston PA) in the Lehigh Gorge at Hetchel PA on a warm Spring day in 2003.

A year after moving to TN, I taken a road trip back to eastern PA to find two R&N SD50s and an SD40-2 as the heavy power for the Lehigh Division.

This would be the last time I photograph these two units operating together. A few months after this picture was taken, 3601 rear-ended a parked coal train, and was immediately taken out of servi... (more)

Both of R&N's SD45-2s finish today's trek thru the Lehigh River Gorge on their return from Pittston, and will tie up in Jim Thorpe within the hour.

Train LEPI with an ex-GT SD38 and one of the SD45-2s has in today's consist a RMDI-rebuilt U23B for Wimpey Minerals in Annville, PA.

R&N train LEPI with an ex-GT SD38 and one of the SD45-2s has in today's consist a RMDI-rebuilt U23B for Wimpey Minerals in Annville, PA.

An SD45-2 and an ex-GT SD38 pass through the last three miles of the Lehigh River Gorge on their return trip to Lehighton.

SD38 2000 and SD45-2 3600, both ex-CR units, swings away from CR's Ashmore Secondary as it continues through the Lehigh River Gorge to Pittston.

Both of Reading & Northern's SD45-2's enter into the south end of the Lehigh River Gorge on their way to Pittston, PA.