Pusher Service on the RBM&N!
Pressed for assistance with an unusually heavy load, the Reading, Blue Mountain & Northern grabs an idle Pacific and places it on the rear of a northbo... (more)
Train 746, the Montgomery-Opelika/West Point local, usually draws a pair of B30-7s, but today the crew is making do with one. That means long-hood forward for the eastbound leg.
WORK-30 breaks the early morning silence in Tamaqua with an SD40-2 leading 8 loaded ballast hoppers.
A work extra prepares to begin a day of dumping ballast out of Tamaqua.
Reading & Northern 425 drifts down a relatively steep section of track at CP COAL before blasting up the grade into the Lehigh Gorge.
A Reading C424 hovers in the greasy, oily gunk that was the foundation of the Lehigh Valley’s Bethlehem Terminal. The Reading C424’s were among the early-production versions that had the radia... (more)
Four-month-old B40-8 4002 leads westbound Susquehanna Sea-Land stack train NTV-9 out of Deposit, New York. A Motive Power Leasing F45 and a Susquehanna SD45 are pitching in with some tractive effo... (more)
In 1985, the New York, Susquehanna and Western acquired the former Lehigh & Hudson River between Franklin and Sparta Junction, New Jersey. It already held title to the L&HR main between Franklin a... (more)
Eastbound Susquehanna stack train NTV-4 is pulled onto the NYS&W Northern Division in Binghamton, New York. Conrail would not permit Susquehanna crew changes on the Southern Tier main line, so NYS... (more)
he Reading and Northern 425 steam engine returning to Jim Thorpe with the 3pm LGSR excursion pauses for the conductor to throw the switch at River for the approaching NRFF. Across the Lehigh Rive... (more)
A Maryland Midland waits on his SD24 while his conductor exchanges waybills with the operator at the Western Maryland office in Highfield, Maryland.
An RBMN coal train for Jeddo heads through downtown Hazleton on NS rails.
WHJE pulls east with 32 cars bound for Jeddo.
NRFF heads through the Lehigh Gorge on their way north.
