The pan that started it all!

I remember the day well. It was a dark and dreary February morning in Port Clinton, PA. I set up for the shot, along with a bunch of friends, but didn't hav... (more)

Highball in 3D!

Reading & Northern's blue Pacific charges north in a downpour through the Lehigh Gorge in a pan taken at 1/20th of a second

A Lerro Productions / Lerro Photog... (more)

Reading & Northern's Wilkes-Barre to Allentown train crosses the Lehigh River under overcast skies and light snow. Rumor has it the railroad may switch over to RDC cars so a bunch of us got toget... (more)

Cloudy with a Chance of Thunder!

A tranquil scene complimented with the sound of water falling onto the ground from above precedes the entrance of Reading & Northern's blue Pacific stormi... (more)

Reading & Northern #425 leads a train west through the Lehigh Gorge passing the signals at Independence. The right of way here splits off from the parallel Lehigh Valley right of way to cross over... (more)

Highball!

Though the transition from steam to diesel continues, the Port Clinton to Mauch Chunk commuter trains are still often found with one of the railroad's 3 remaining steam l... (more)

R&N #425 makes an extended stop at the station in Jim Thorpe giving time for the crew to catch up on the day's activities. Just earlier, the scene was full of activity until the change from snow ... (more)

Traveling east over the Little Schuylkill River, 161' below, R&N's powerful Pacific leads a passenger special east over the 981 foot long Hometown Trestle. The bridge was built in 1931 by the Pho... (more)

A Reading & Northern passenger train thunders through the Lehigh Gorge, southbound over an s-curve on the former Lehigh Valley ROW. The track to the left is owned by NS, while the track #425 is o... (more)

One of the scenic highlights of the eastern United States is the Lehigh River Gorge north of Jim Thorpe PA. Here, steep hills (for the east at least) were cleaved by the Lehigh River. In the 1800'... (more)

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

Reading & Northern's 4-6-2 Pacific barrels out of the northern portal of the White Haven tunnel snaking its way through a nearly quarter mile cut while en route to Pittston, PA.

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)

R&N #425 makes an appearance in her new "Gulf and Mobile" inspired livery under a spectacular sky at Mountain Top, PA. This was one of the few, if only time the Sun broke free of what had been a ... (more)

Reading & Northern #425 charges through the backwoods of White Haven, PA under "partly cloudy" skies. Lol - it's true what they say: "A cloudy day with steam is better then a sunny day without!"... (more)