Luzerne & Susquehanna's Avoca Job heads east at Duryea Jct.
The L&S's Avoca Job returns up the RBMN Susquehanna Branch after picking up cars at Pittston Yard with a nice pair of switchers for power.
LV #637 leads a C628 trio on an eastbound at the north (RR west) end of Coxton Yard in Duryea, Pennsylvania. All those boxcars were probably picked up at the P&G paper mill in Mehoopany. Ekta... (more)
With a throaty bark and the hiss of the cylinder cocks, the Reading & Northern's Locomotive 425 begins to shove the NRHS Lehigh Rambler consist south from the boarding area in Duryea to the wye at... (more)
Just about 15 minutes after leaving the boarding area in nearby Pittston, the "Four and a Quarter" has reached relatively level track and is beginning to accelerate to track speed with her diesel ... (more)
The Rambler makes quite the racket leaving Pittston Yard trying to get a running start at the grade. The stack talk was reverberating off the neighboring houses and throughout the surrounding val... (more)
RBMN #425 adds a splash of color to the scene with it's first excursion of 2010 in NE Pennsylvania.
Nothing like a little Spring Steaming! Compliments of the Reading and Northern Railroad.
I felt this was a fitting shot to be added this All Hallows' Eve. RBMN 425 fights up the grade past the cemetery at Duryea in the pouring rain being dumped by Tropical Storm Hanna.
A week after Independence Day, American flags still fly in tribute throughout the cemetery as Reading & Northern 4-6-2 425 puts on a show as it struggles upgrade with the 11-car train.
#2301 was acquired from the Great Miami & Western where it was given a home-made slightly sloping chop nose.