Reading 2102 simmers quietly in its stall before it’s official public debut tomorrow. 2102 will be leading a 19-car passenger train, it’s first excursion in 30 years.

In the early light of day, a Blue Mountain & Reading Temple – Harrisburg glides over the Schuylkill River on Conrail’s Lebanon Valley Line at Reading, Pennsylvania. The long girder bridge shar... (more)

A Blue Mountain & Reading Temple – Harrisburg excursion is just under way at Belt Line Junction, Pennsylvania. For reasons that I don’t recall, the train avoided the Reading Belt line and inst... (more)

After a successful round trip to Philadelphia, Reading 4-8-4 2102 backs the Blue Mountain & Reading excursion toward home rails at Belt Line Junction, Pennsylvania. The connection between Conrail�... (more)

With the Neversink Mountain as a backdrop, Reading 4-8-4 2102 rolls a Temple – Philadelphia excursion west at Klapperthal Junction, Pennsylvania. This track is a connector between the former Rea... (more)

Looking right at home, Reading 4-8-4 2102 leads the return leg of a Reading – Philadelphia excursion west at Colebrookdale Junction, Pennsylvania. Seen above and left of the big Northern is the ... (more)

The recent cosmetic restoration of former Reading Railroad T-1 2124 (4-8-4, Baldwin, 1924/1947) has brought it back to its appearance during the "Iron Horse Rambles” era. It is seen on disp... (more)

Reading Company's 1937 built Crusader observation car on display at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania.

This passenger car design was rather unique - each of two streamlined Reading "Crusader" ... (more)

Basking in the morning Sun against a backdrop of the mountains of Scranton.

Reading Company Technical and Historical Society's #902 are seen here sitting back to back with the Philadelphia Chap... (more)

Reading Company's Alco RS-3 467

This locomotive was built by the by the American Locomotive Company in May 1952. It had a second career with the Peabody Coal Company before being purchas... (more)

A Reading Company Survivor in...
Exton, PA?!?!!

This is the Exton Hotel, also known as the Exton House and Ship Station. Built in 1859, it is a three-story, five-bay, stuccoed... (more)

The not-normally photographed end of Reading Tech’s restored C630 is leading an excursion out of South Hamburg, Pennsylvania. The big Alco is still in South Hamburg today, but it’s unlikely th... (more)

Coming Soon to a Mob Scene In Anthracite Country

Reading 4-8-4 2102 is the first fan-tripper that I ever photographed, in 1973 with an instamatic camera and print film. It was disg... (more)

A well-patronized Souderton Railroad Days excursion passes the former Reading water tank at Rockhill, Pennsylvania.

Reading Company's 4-8-4 No. 2124, a recipient of a recent cosmetic restoration, is seen in the yard at Steamtown parked next to the Philadelphia Chapter of the NRHS's FP7 #903 (mated to the Readin... (more)