Reading Pacifics wait for work at the Atlantic City end of the PRSL system. Summer season trains from Philadelphia kept these modern yet obsolete steam engines in service a bit longer than they o... (more)
Standing on the embankment next to the small yard at Hammonton allows this perspective of Reading G3 Pacifics serving to augment the added trainsets for summer service trains from Philly to Atlant... (more)
Here's a tender-forward view of GS3 #215 which just yarded it's one-car train after a Saturday run. Summer season trains on the PRSL brought out the Pacifics for a last hurrah, it's only six year... (more)
A view from above the tender of the Reading steam engines shows the small yard, turnaround track, and the main in the distance. This is the commuter service from Hammonton to Camden. to Camden.
Reading engine #218 is another of the G3 Pacifics still holding down duty on PRSL runs at this date. The PRSL Baldwin AS-16 diesels are invading though, and the Pacific's service lives are nearin... (more)
Engine #215 simmers after yarding it's 1-car train into the Hammonton yard. In the PRR style on the pilot beam, EA stands for Eastern Region, and CTE means Camden Terminal Enginehouse.
Reading 3648 leads a brace of nearly new GP-35s heading west, along the Schuylkill River. Photographers were enthusiatic for the new Reading bumble bees.
In the mid-to-late 1970s, Reading 2101 was used along with C&O 614 for Chessie System passenger specials. The lovely lady is seen here in Chessie colors hauling a special along the B&OCT. Tom Go... (more)
Reading 3620 at Rutherford Yard. Photo has been in my collection for years, no photographer listed on slide.
A Reading GP30 leads a manifest from Port Reading westward.
EMD re-engined Baldwin VO-1000m 2714 works in Reading's Rutherford Yard, near Harrisburg. Kodachrome original.
A weathered Reading Fairbanks-Morse Trainmaster works in Rutherford Yard, near Harrisburg. Kodachrome original.
Reading 467 in Scranton Yard.
The farewell to the Reading FP7s trip in March 1976 passes through Edison, NJ on the Port Reading Branch during an intense thunderstorm. The wind gusts must have been somewhere between 50 to 75 m... (more)
