The Reading Turn holds at N. Reading before crossing onto Norfolk Southern rails to work Spring Street yard in Reading, PA. This is the first run for these locomotives together on a train, both we... (more)
One of RBMN's newly acquired former ATSF 'Bluebonnets' leads the Tamaqua to Reading turn job south through Zehners on their way to Port Clinton. Normally, a second one of these units would accompa... (more)
An Ex Santa Fe GP39RN leads a one car QARG onto NS rails at CP BELT. It wont be long before this Santa Fe bluebonnet is repainted into Reading and Northern colors.
Reading and Northern QARG-06 is seen completing their brake test, after serving Kore Mart Limited, at West Hamburg, PA. Within minutes the classic Geep will have the Reading Turn on the move south... (more)
The Reading & Northern "Mountain Job" eases into Tamaqua with the RBMN 2530 former LTEX/BNSF/ATSF, RBMN 1548 SW1500 former CR/Reading and the RBMN 5014 SD50 former UP/MP.
After getting their signal from NS, the Reading Turn heads through the south end of the RBMN Main Line at North Reading Yard and prepares to enter the NS Pottsville Branch at BELT interlocking.
Looking out of place in east-central PA, two ex-ATSF GP30u's (now classed as GP39RN's) head south passed a soybean field north of Port Clinton on the point of the Reading Turn.
The Reading Turn heads south through New Ringgold with 21 cars for NS at Reading with two former ATSF GP30u's for power.
Reading & Northern's MCQA "Mountain Job" stops at the Tamaqua Yard Office for paperwork with two of the four new "GP39RN" (GP30u) units recently acquired from LTEX via BNSF/ATS... (more)