Another Reading Northern: After spending the morning observing 2102 put on a grand performance in the second-to-last of the year's "Rambles", it was bittersweet to find myself sta... (more)
The Reading Company Technical & Historical Society's Alco Century 630, in a static pose during the Blue Mountain and Reading's 1991 Railfan Weekend. Several runbys were also performed here, in ad... (more)
A quartet of Alco and EMD power - RS3s and GP7s - lead a westbound down Falls grade through Bellevue Jct. in the East Falls section of Philly. This was either an empty hopper or an ore extra. GP7 ... (more)
Reading T-1 No. 2124 performing a runby at Port Clinton 60 years ago, in a scene scanned from an Ektachrome slide from the collection of the late Mr. Hen Westenberger. Looks like the switch is li... (more)
We're standing on the old PRR grade above Port Clinton for a view of the Reading Company Technical & Historical Society's GP30/C630-powered railfan weekend special returning from Tamaqua. The loc... (more)
Alco Century 630 No. 5308 posed with EMD GP30 No. 5513 at the Reading Blue Mountain and Northern / Reading Company Technical & Historical Society 1991 railfan weekend night photo session- down by ... (more)
Reading FP7 No. 907 and RS3 No. 509 are this evening's power on symbol DA-3 (Darby-Allentown). The train is moving onto the connection track between the two Schuylkill River bridges at West Falls... (more)
Departing Allentown yard, Reading GP35 3641 leading two B&O GP40's in June 1973. Photo from my collection, no photographer name on slide.
Reading SD45 7603 with GP30 3619 leading a freight train near Reading, PA in 1973. Unknown photographer, slide from my collection)
Reading FP7 No. 902, a 1980s/90s restoration project of the Lancaster Chapter NRHS, now greeting visitors at Steamtown
Reading 2124 was the subject of a night photo shoot after the conclusion of Steamtown's Railfest activities. Here the crew gets themselves and the locomotive ready for duty.
Night shoot was a bonus to the Railfest day.
I felt the FP7s were not getting enough attention.
Smoke testing