Reading 716 in the deadline at Reading, PA in 1974

Ex Conrail C40-8W works westbound with NS general freight 19G out of Spring Street Yard on the Harrisburg Line.

With Changes in the NS schedule NS-19g now shifts cars @ Reading Yard for the Reading & Northern from Allentown. Seems there is no more NS 35a. This allows this catch of NS-19g pulling past the ... (more)

Philadelphia - Reading train at downtown Reading station

A Reading GP7 is paired with Baldwin AS16 551 on a train from Philadelphia. The picture angle is a result of poor sunlight on the front of the train.

Reading EMD FT units 251 A, B sit at the company shops.

Reading 4-8-4 2109 is at the front of a line of stored T-1 class engines at Reading. There were still 20 of the husky 4-8-4s on the roster at this date and several had been used as temporary indus... (more)

(L to R) CR 6289, 6716, 8118, and 6461, 3020

Their last class reunion.

On Blue Mountain and Reading, a private railroad, during a railfan weekend. They ran these units at over 50 MPH, so it made it quite exciting!

We could only assume this was bought as a spare for the RDG cars.

Another image from a whole plate glass negative showing Philadelphia & Reading Railway 4-6-0 No 182. Note the dangerously large gap between tender and engine which the fireman is demonstrating wit... (more)

Two C630's and five C424's - with an EMD pup on the end for good measure- make up a deadline of stored power at the Reading Lines backshop late in 1975. 5302 would become Conrail 6755 about a year... (more)

Okay, maybe it's a DS 44-10 but it's a beauty nevertheless. I was always impressed with how quickly BLWs loaded and how there must only be about 50 RPM difference between idle and wide open.