The Lancaster Northern (LANO) operation of the East Penn Railroad interchanges traffic with NS at the big railroad's Spring Street Yard in Reading, Pa. ESPN 7874 was SP 7874 and wears an older ESP... (more)
Still looking like it has that "new locomotive smell", one of Conrail's early wide cabs enters Belt Line Junction off of the Reading Low Grade. Wide cabs were a novelty at the time, but ... (more)
With the Southern heritage unit in the lead, NS train H68 pumps air in the yard at Reading, preparing for a late afternoon return to Allentown, PA
1976 was not a good year for the namesake companies of the city of Reading, Pennsylvania. Of course, it's common knowledge among the railfan fraternity that Reading's railroad, Reading Company, wa... (more)
An eastbound train has finished its work in Reading yard, and is now continuing eastward toward Philadelphia, seen here leaving the city of Reading, PA on the former RDG main.
The Reading Company has been gone for ten years, but the many of its bridges, including this one on the Lebanon Valley branch in Reading, have escaped a makeover by the Conrail B&B gangs.
The headlights of RBMN 2530 cut through the night while waiting at N. Reading for permission onto Norfolk Southern rails.
The Reading Turn holds at N. Reading before crossing onto Norfolk Southern rails to work Spring Street yard in Reading, PA. This is the first run for these locomotives together on a train, both we... (more)
NS Harrisburg Line local H31 heads west at Wyomissing leaving Reading, Pa. NS GP40-2 #3001 is 40 years old this year having been delivered to the Reading Railroad as #3674 back in 1974. The old gi... (more)
NS 5355 pulling a light load through CP Wyomissing Junction Photo by Shawn A Leightcap
NS 9886 coming across Tulpehocken Bridge just before sundown. Photo by Shawn A Leightcap
Slow day at CP Wyomissing Junction. Only west bound to come through all evening. Photo by Shawn A Leightcap
NS 9727 Rolling through the valley into Reading PA Photo by Shawn A Leightcap
Thunderstorm rolled to the North while I was out shooting trains last night. Captured this shot of lightning from the Norfolk Southern Reading Yard last night. Photo by Shawn A Leightcap
