The best (and warmest) seat in the house! R&N 425 starts her movement towards the Lerro Productions Photo Charter line located just around the curve ahead. About an hour later, all the snow would ... (more)

After sitting all night at the station 425 comes alive as she gets ready to back down to the main for the first run-by of the day.

R&N 5014 pauses at the Jim Thorpe station while passengers board. The train will bring the people along with their bikes into the Lehigh Gorge where they will detrain and take the bike trail back ... (more)

The 765 pulls into the town of Jim Thorpe.

Reading & Northern #425 rounds the cut at Glen Onoko in the Lehigh Gorge just minutes after visiting Nickel Plate #765 made an appearance on the Railroad: Reading & Northern
Locomotive: Steam 4-6-2
Location: Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, USA
Locomotive #: RN 425
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: August 23, 2015

Another day, another spin... What's amazing about this scene is that there is nothing amazing about this scene. Yet again, we see R&N's #425 take a spin on the turntable to orient the engi... (more)

In her new livery, Reading & Northern 4-6-2 #425 passes through "COAL" interlocking at Glenoko just north of Jim Thorpe, PA. The R&N installed this former Reading signal bridge in September 2014.... (more)

NKP #765 roars past a rock cut in the Lehigh Gorge State Park in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania. Bikers, hikers and railfans alike freeze like deer to watch this magnificent machine as it thunders past ... (more)

NKP #765 struts her stuff in the Lehigh Gorge. In this scene she's southbound on the Reading & Northern's former CNJ right of way, creating a celebratory smoke ring ahead of her arrival at Jim Th... (more)

Families, railfans, and photographers gather along the former CNJ and Lehigh railroad right of ways inside the Lehigh Gorge Park to catch Nickel Plate #765 as she storms north while en route from ... (more)

Well - that sure as heck ain't R&N #425! Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society's Nickel Plate #765 finds its way back into Pennsylvania in the Summer of 2015. Captured here crossing the Lehigh ... (more)

Reading & Northern's shiny 4-6-2 takes a spin on the turntable at Jim Thorpe in preparation for the return trip to Port Clinton. Thanks to Mitch Goldman for getting me here! (Long story, but it... (more)

After dropping off a crew member 425 proceeds forward to make way for the crews to move the coaches around.

The disciples watch as the deity is groomed in the uniquely named Jim Thorpe PA. Where once endless trains of Pennsylvania's black wealth were prepared for the journey through New Jersey to New Yo... (more)

After spinning the train in Pittston, the Lehigh Gorge Special returns to Jim Thorpe for a layover before taking on the final leg of the trip back to Allentown.