Reading and Northern 2102 steams through Tamaqua with 15 cars on the return trip from Jim Thorpe to Reading.

C&O 4-8-4 Greenbrier 614T with fifty loaded coal hoppers on a run from Huntington, to Hinton WV. It was on steam powered testing for one month in January 1985. 614T has stopped at Charleston, West... (more)

C&O 614T, 4-8-4 Greenbrier, running test for the ACE program, hauling coal on the C&O between Huntington, and Hinton WV at Cabin Creek, West Virginia. January 10, 1985. Jack D Kuiphoff photo ©

Reading 2102 hustles alongside the Susquehanna River at Falls as it approaches its destination of Tunkhannock.

Reading 2102 rolls through Glen Summit on a sunny June morning.

C&O Greenbrier 4-8-4 614T "T" for test. Pulling coal trains for a month in January 1985 seen here at Pratt, West Virginia. November 11, 1985. Jack D Kuiphoff photo ©

Reading 2102 storms through Nesquehoning Junction late in the evening as it nears the end of its all day excursion to Tunkhannock.

The 2102 works southbound through Lehigh Gorge State Park.

The 2102 steams north towards Tunkhannock PA.

Reading 2102 pounds up the grade at Solomons Gap with its passenger train.

The NQTK passes through Duryea PA on its way to Tunkhannock. The fast freight diesels were added in Penobscott for dynamic breaking while descending the mountain into Pittston.

A bike rider stops to get their shot of the 2102 passing through White Haven.

Just minutes out of the new Nesquehoning station, the 2102 crosses the Lehigh River and begins its trip north to Tunkhannock.

Reading 2102 reverses out of Jim Thorpe early in the morning as it heads for Nesquehoning.

Chessie Steam Special, ex-Reading 4-8-4 2101 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. May 14, 1977. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo