In late 1963 Reading Lines purchased ten new Alco 2400hp C424 locomotives numbered 5201-5210.

Waiting for the winter to pass.

The Philadelphia to Jersey City, N.J. train 600 the "Crusader" at West Trenton, New Jersey July 1961. In the lead EMD FP7 No. 905 with No.902. Photo taken from my slide collection, photographer... (more)

The date says Conrail, but the scene is pure Reading. On the third weekend of Conrail’s existence, a lot of motive power has been shuffled, but the train patterns are still intact. Here a coal ... (more)

Fans circle the turntable during a fantrip stop. I shot the Reading 4-8-4 from a hill overlooking the roundhouse.

A Roger Puta Photograph

A Roger Puta Photograph

Eastbound train making a set out

Bringing in train from Hagerstown, MD

A pair of Reading Geep 7s, as seen in a scan of an Ektachrome slide from the collection of the late Hen Westenberger. No. 633 was built in October of 1953 and was renumbered as Conrail No. 5835; ... (more)

A set of locomotives has just arrived from a Bethlehem Steel train

The Reading's first Alco Century C630, christened as the "Rocket II" (with a nameplate below the cab) heads west in this scene scanned from a slide from the collection of the late Hen We... (more)

Heavy action in the Lebanon Valley, in a scene scanned from a slide from the collection of the late Hen Westenberger. A GP35 leads two Alcos up the grade eastbound out of the Quittapahilla Creek ... (more)

Fairbanks-Morse Trainmaster action in the Lebanon Valley, in a scene scanned from a slide from the collection of the late Hen Westenberger. The 863 was one of seventeen H24-66s (Hood, 2400 hp, 6 ... (more)

One of the great Reading Class T-1s romps through the Lebanon Valley in this scene from a slide scanned from the collection of the late Hen Westenberger. This appears to be the "Reading Ramb... (more)