A Reading Company Survivor

Reading's Lansdale freight house was built in 1903 and is located one block south of SEPTA's ex-Reading train station along SEPTA's main line to Philadelphia.<... (more)

A Reading Company Survivor

The Reading Company's 1902 built Lansdale station. The station is now used by the SEPTA commuter agency. At one time, this station served as an important tran... (more)

SEPTA's KLW SE10B No. 80, a re-manufactured 1,050 BHP switcher locomotive from the Knoxville Locomotive Works sits idle at the commuter agency's 1902 Reading built station. The locomotive lead in... (more)

Two former Conrail soldiers rest side by side in Pennsylvania Northeastern's Lansdale yard.

For the first time in over 20 years, a steam locomotive passes the train station in the small Pennsylvania town of Lansdale.

Holding the markers of the way to start the 150th Anniversary of the Borough of North Wales, Pennsylvania special, New Hope & Ivyland 40 (2-8-0 Consolidation, Baldwin, 1925, ex-Lancaster and Chest... (more)

The star of the day was clearly New Hope & Ivyland 40 (2-8-0 Consolidation, Baldwin, 1925, ex-Lancaster and Chester Railroad). After the recent completion of its rebuild, this engine would power a... (more)

Painted in its signature Rio Grande tribute scheme, Pennsylvania Northeastern Railroad SD40-2W 5342 (ex-CN 5342) sits in Lansdale, PA on the night of Saturday, May 18, 2019. Fireworks in the backg... (more)

Pennsylvania Northeastern's latest motive power acquisition is parked in the shadow of the new Septa parking garage adjacent to Lansdale station. Both are obviously former CSX SD60s. CSXT 8711 (... (more)

SEPTA’s AEM7 test train has been reconfigured to point south, and is now leaving Lansdale to return to Philadelphia.

With its train of five blueliners in the Lansdale holding yard, the Amtrak AEM7 being tested by SEPTA has coupled to the opposite end of the MU cars, and is preparing to return to Philadelphia.

Blueliners and Silverliners

Two generations of the former Reading electrification stand in the holding yard at Lansdale, Pennsylvania. To the left is a five-car Lineup of Blueliner... (more)

In anticipation of delivery of seven AEM7’s, SEPTA wanted to test the new locomotives’ burden on its electrical distribution supplying the former Reading electrification. A Sunday, the slowest day... (more)

A 32-year-old former Conrail C39-8 soldiers on in freight service for the Pennsylvania Northeastern Railroad.

New locomotive on test train at the 1906 Philadelphia & Reading passenger station.