Three Reading and Northern EMD's are backing an empty crude oil train into Tamaqua Yard as they parallel "Pleasant Row" in the North Ward section of Tamaqua. Tamaqua Yard ends directly i... (more)

Fresh snow has once again fallen over Northeastern Pennsylvania as the Reading and Northern PNEX-01 heads up the Main Line through Tamaqua. With a recent influx of empty Crude Oil trains, for temp... (more)

In the early morning hours of Monday, January 9, 2015, the Reading and Northern "Reading Turn" is parked on the Main Line in Tamaqua Yard. The #2532 is the most recent of the GP39RNs to ... (more)

"The Old Men Shed" situated adjacent to the R&N Main Line and Vine Street in Tamaqua was once my home away from home as a kid. I spent many days hanging out at the playground (and sittin... (more)

Passing the infamous "Pulpit Rock" the PNEX-16 pulls an empty Crude Oil train through Pulpit Rock Siding and into Port Clinton proper. Railroad photography off of this bridge has been a ... (more)

An empty Crude Oil train fights upgrade at East Mahanoy Junction onto the M&S Branch. A late morning Port Clinton Extra crew picked this train up at North Reading Yard and is moving it north for t... (more)

A deep freeze has settled into the Mahanoy Valley as a Tamaqua Extra crew has completed switching empty hopper cars at Mahanoy City Yard. The steam from the Gilberton Power Company co-generation f... (more)

Reading and Northern Pacific #425 skirts through the countryside of beautiful Schuylkill County with a Santa Clause Special out of Tamaqua.

With a beautiful blanket of snow covering the Anthracite Coal Region, the southbound "Mountain Job" descends the grade of the M&S Branch at Barnesville, PA. A short distance ahead lays t... (more)

Reading and Northern Pacific #425 lays over at Pottsville's Union Station on a brisk November evening. Ian McKeown, the #425's night watchman, peers down from the cab of the Pacific as many visito... (more)

Reading and Northern QARG-06 is seen completing their brake test, after serving Kore Mart Limited, at West Hamburg, PA. Within minutes the classic Geep will have the Reading Turn on the move south... (more)

A Reading and Northern "Tamaqua Extra" is seen working the Reading Anthracite loading pad in Girardville, PA. The three big EMD's have completed their task of placing empties for loading... (more)

Norfolk Southern train 19G slows through HOMER interlocking in Altoona, PA. The train will get a fresh recrew at Rose Yard before heading west to Conway.

Reading and Northern's "Reading Turn" services Packaging Corporation of America at Tuckerton, PA. The Reading Turn operates daily (except Saturday) between Tamaqua and Norfolk Southern's Reading Y... (more)

The southbound "Mountain Job" drops down the M&S Branch enroute back to Tamaqua. The MCQA-03 is crossing Hillside Drive in Barnesville, PA, after a heavy snowfall blanketed the area just... (more)