Reading Blue Mountain & Northern. The crew of a Reading Blue Mountain & Northern passenger train discusses the challenges of their upcoming run north, as they wait for their passengers to b... (more)

Switching at Jim Thorpe Station. After dropping her passenger consist just south of Jim Thorpe Station, the Reading & Northern 425 begins a set of switching moves that will reverse her trai... (more)

A Thoroughbred at a Full Gallop. The Reading & Northern 425 charges out of the rocky Tamaqua Tunnel on a frigid morning in February, leaving a plume of smoke and steam that will be pouring ... (more)

Cloudy with a Chance of Thunder!

A tranquil scene complimented with the sound of water falling onto the ground from above precedes the entrance of Reading & Northern's blue Pacific stormi... (more)

Reading & Northern #425 leads a train west through the Lehigh Gorge passing the signals at Independence. The right of way here splits off from the parallel Lehigh Valley right of way to cross over... (more)

On the Table at Jim Thorpe. With the snow intensity starting to really pick up, the Reading & Northern 425 is turned on the Jim Thorpe Turntable. This structure is not motorized and is ess... (more)

The Road of Anthracite. After stopping briefly for engine service, the Reading & Northern's Locomotive 425 gets underway on her southbound run to Jim Thorpe. Her 69" drivers give awa... (more)

MM 124.9 - Glen Onoko. A light snow begins to fall in the rock cut at Glen Onoko as the Reading & Northern's Locomotive 425 hustles her express passenger train out of the Lehigh Gorge, towa... (more)

Highball!

Though the transition from steam to diesel continues, the Port Clinton to Mauch Chunk commuter trains are still often found with one of the railroad's 3 remaining steam l... (more)

R&N #425 makes an extended stop at the station in Jim Thorpe giving time for the crew to catch up on the day's activities. Just earlier, the scene was full of activity until the change from snow ... (more)

Passing the Signals at Independence, the mighty "Four-and-a-Quarter" does her best impression of an old KC-135 A-model going missed approach. Starting her run out of sight in the... (more)

Traveling east over the Little Schuylkill River, 161' below, R&N's powerful Pacific leads a passenger special east over the 981 foot long Hometown Trestle. The bridge was built in 1931 by the Pho... (more)

A Reading & Northern passenger train thunders through the Lehigh Gorge, southbound over an s-curve on the former Lehigh Valley ROW. The track to the left is owned by NS, while the track #425 is o... (more)

Goooood Morning Port Clinton! The quiet calm of a frigid winter morning in the tiny hamlet of Port Clinton, Pennsylvania is suddenly broken by the staccato bark of the Reading & Northern's ... (more)

Express Service to Jim Thorpe. A Reading, Blue Mountain & Northern Express passenger train charges north across the Little Schuylkill River in West Penn, Pennsylvania just after dawn on a c... (more)