Reading & Northern’s Santa Claus Special rolls south through Hamburg, Pennsylvania. In the background is a bridge that once carried the PRR Schuylkill Division.

Ex-Gulf, Mobile, and Northern No. 425 in 1986, backing down onto a Santa Claus Special on the Blue Mountain & Reading Railroad at South Hamburg. No. 425, built by Baldwin in 1928, has 69" dr... (more)

Water time for 2102 at Hamburg.

One of the few places in the USA where you can see a steam locomotive pulling period coaches at realistic mainline speeds. The 425 is wide-open here, along Lowland Road, with the first of today's... (more)

The pacing videographer ought to have gotten himself some good footage here along Lowland Road, as the 425's engineer eases off the throttle on the last train of the day.

The Reading station in Hamburg, Pennsylvania, now long gone, was still intact during the Reading sesquicentennial celebration in 1983. Here a Reading – Pottsville excursion to celebrate the event ... (more)

Having had a recent cosmetic restoration, Reading U30C #6300 glows in the afternoon sunshine at the Reading Railroad Heritage Museum in Hamburg, PA.

Practice photo for upcoming night photo shoot on August 19, 2017 as part of the museums 50th Anniversary of Bee Line Service on the Reading Railroad. Orders being handed up.

Practice photo for upcoming night photo shoot on August 19, 2017 as part of the museums 50th Anniversary of Bee Line Service on the Reading Railroad.

A Reading Lines family portrait at Hamburg, PA - fro L to R we find EMD GP7 #621, ALCO C630 #5308 and GE U30C #6300 waiting on an incoming thunderstorm on a warm August evening in Northeast Pennsy... (more)

Mother Nature provides her own lighting in the forms of some lightning over Berks County, Pennsylvania as Reading Lines ALCO C630 #5308 belches out some classic ALCO carbon during the Reading Rail... (more)

Practice photo for upcoming night photo shoot on August 12, 2017 as part of the museums 50th Anniversary of Bee Line Service on the Reading Railroad.

Practice photo for upcoming night photo shoot on August 12, 2017 as part of the museums 50th Anniversary of Bee Line Service on the Reading Railroad.

My father was at the exact same location of his Iron Horse Ramble 26 years laters to record this excursion with preserved Reading diesels, C630 5308 and GP30 5513. There clearly has been a lot of... (more)

From 1959 to 1964, the Reading operated a series of excursions with their T1 steam locomotives called Iron Horse Rambles. This is one of my father's photos of one of these trains running along th... (more)