A rare visitor on the old Reading Lines in the Lebanon Valley in 2014- Soo Line No. 6044 on the Allentown-Atlanta run. It's a typical Monday evening short consist.

Two ex-Penn Central GP38-2s are heading east under Lebanon's twin bridges at Old 9th & Scull Streets. Nos. 5271 and 5277 were both built in February, 1973.

A teenage railfan is filming "The Jolly Green Giant" (the Illinois Terminal Heritage Unit) with his iPad while his dad and younger brothers look on. The station was built by the Philade... (more)

The Pennsy Heritage Unit is rocking and rolling over the multiple grade crossings in Lebanon as it heads west to Harrisburg and beyond.

You never knew what you'd find stored over the weekend at Conrail's 16th Street facility in the 1980s and 90s. Here we have an ex-Penn Central 1972-built SW1500, some assorted Geeps, and an Ameri... (more)

Conrail glory days, with two SD50s westbound around 14th Street in Lebanon. The classic Reading Lines signal and the crossover switches were later removed by Norfolk Southern. The 6824 was built... (more)

Never to be repeated- a Conrail local heads out the Cornwall Secondary with a carload of newsprint for the "Lebanon Daily News." This line is now a rail-trail.

R.I.P. to Mr. Bruce Van Sant, Amtrak's Director of System Operations, who passed away on 10-26-17. Bruce was one of the organizers of the Autumn Express excursions in recent years, and served as ... (more)

Amtrak's 16-car "Autumn Express" is westbound on the ex-Reading freight-only Norfolk Southern Harrisburg Line, passing by the old Lebanon station, which hasn't had passenger service sinc... (more)

The 212 is at full track speed (40 mph) passing the "bloody bucket" 28th Division red keystone on the 9th Street viaduct. The old Railroad House on the left (now apartments) no longer s... (more)

An ex-Reading MP15 (RDG 2774) switches the old San Giorgio spaghetti factory on what old-timers in Lebanon called the "Belt Line." This line has been removed; the tracks headed north on... (more)

An ex-Penn Central Geep leads a 7-engine lashup on an eastbound freight passing by the snowy 16th Street yard. A lot has changed here in 20+ years; the old Reading signal is gone, the yard is emp... (more)

Two Conrail GP10s lead a load of coil cars bound for Alcoa Aluminum, passing the old mill at Midway, as seen from the Rocherty Road overpass. The train is crossing over from the old Cornwall Rail... (more)

Amtrak's Autumn Express passes through the shadow of the old Reading station in Lebanon, where the last regularly scheduled passenger train stopped on June 30, 1963.

Amtrak's 2016 Autumn Express with an unusual combo of two P42s (No. 42 trailing) and an ACS-64 (No. 642) dead-in-tow. The train will turn on the Rockville wye, and when back under the wires in La... (more)