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By the time that the Reading & Northern took over Conrail’s former Reading main line and branches west of Reading, Pennsylvania, the yard office in St. Nicholas ... (more)

After a brief stop at the yard office, Reading & Northern’s mountain job departs St. Nicholas, Pennsylvania.

Reading & Northern’s mountain job rolls into St. Nicholas, Pennsylvania. After a brief stop at the yard office for some administrative work, it will continue east toward Tamaqua.

When Guilford jettisoned the Delaware & Hudson, the D&H was left woefully short of reliable power. The court-appointed operator, New York, Susquehanna & Western, barely had enough power to operate... (more)

Four-month-old New-York Susquehanna & Western B40-8 4006 still looks factory-fresh leading a northbound Delaware & Hudson train approaching the Belden Hill bore at Tunnel, New York. I normally avo... (more)

Having crested Belden Hill, a southbound Delaware & Hudson train emerges from the bore at Tunnel, New York. A Susquehanna B40-8 and a National Railway Leasing SDP45 can ease up for the descent int... (more)

The LNRX crew brings a coal train off the Greenwood Running Track in Tamaqua. LNRX is an "Indexing" job that loaded the train at Lehigh Natural Sources. Once they clear the interlocking,... (more)

Finished his work at Schnitzer Steel, the Columbus & Chattahoochee Brickyard Job heads back to the yard with MNA GP38-2 #509. The 509 is originally a Florida East Coast motor and still wears that ... (more)

Scanned from an Ektachrome slide....In an era before internet and social media had totally taken over the railfanning world, a morning of waiting was about to be rewarded on July 6, 2002 along Gui... (more)

With a fresh snowfall blanketing the landscape, a short NRFF accelerates to 40mph in Rickenbach's Cut after departing North Reading Yard. The four engines will make easy work of the 10-car northbo... (more)

A loaded CSX coal train bound for Bow, NH is pictured here working hard up grade passing by the yard where Guilford and Providence & Worchester interchange traffic. FURX SD40-2 3004 leads two CSX ... (more)

Almost Home. Leased CSXT 9037 (C40-9W), CSXT 4589 (“Spirit Of Nashville”, SD70MAC), NS 6914 (SD60E), and NYSW’s own 3808 (SD60) have been recrewed for the remained for the trip to Bin... (more)

After a lengthy hiatus away from town for mechanical work, CCH 2015 has finally returned to Columbus, sporting fresh G&W orange. It left in the Spring still wearing its original Bay Line green sch... (more)

Heading for Mehoopany A former Santa Fe GP30 leads the Reading & Northern's local job heading for Mehoopany, Penn., where it will switch Proctor & Gamble's Charmin toilet paper plant.

Possibly the most-photographed EMD F45’s were the two ex-Burlington Northern units that ended up on the New York, Susquehanna & Western. Here on of them leads an excursion past the restored stat... (more)