The star of the 1988 Blue Mountain & Reading’s 1988 Railfan Weekend was Reading Company Technical & Historical Society’s newly-restored Reading C630. Here the big Alco poses for photographers ... (more)

One of the Reading's twelve burly Century 630s awaits its next assignment at the Bethlehem, PA, engine terminal that the railroad shared with the CNJ.

Waiting for the winter to pass.

Reading Technical & Historical Society’s GP30 leads a Blue Mountain and Reading passenger train across the 100 year old stone arch bridge spanning Maiden Creek between Temple and Leesport, Penns... (more)

The date says Conrail, but the scene is pure Reading. On the third weekend of Conrail’s existence, a lot of motive power has been shuffled, but the train patterns are still intact. Here a coal ... (more)

Reading Railroad 0-4-0 Camelback #1187, aka; Strasburg #4. This engine last ran at the Strasburg Rail Road in May of 1967. It was later loaned to the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania across the s... (more)

The former Reading Company McMyler coal dumper sits abandoned along the Arthur Kill. Named "Big Mac", it was built in 1917 and was manned by small crew of twelve workers. Big Mac could unload a ra... (more)

Fairbanks-Morse Trainmaster action in the Lebanon Valley, in a scene scanned from a slide from the collection of the late Hen Westenberger. The 863 was one of seventeen H24-66s (Hood, 2400 hp, 6 ... (more)

One of the great Reading Class T-1s romps through the Lebanon Valley in this scene from a slide scanned from the collection of the late Hen Westenberger. This appears to be the "Reading Ramb... (more)

Reading FP7s on display at The Steamtown National Historic Site.

A view of the URHS Yard from the cab of "Reading 284", which is actually former C&NW 4074A. This unit came to the URHS via NJ Transit where it was briefly used in commuter service as NJ... (more)

1984 was a good year for the former Reading Company station in Pottstown, PA. The 56-year-old structure was added to the National Register of Historic Places, and it received a complete restoratio... (more)

This is the cab of the first steam locomotive I ever saw under steam. When I volunteer at Steamtown, I pass this locomotive, remember that day and my Dad who took me on that trip.

"I haven't seen one of those here in a while!" It's certainly been close to ten years since a Reading-painted road unit has travelled the North Penn branch. Although this Quakertown family seems i... (more)

Reading G-1sa Pacific #111 - Built by the Reading Company

The 10th preserved Reading built steam engine that you never knew about - yes, it's a scale model, but this 1930's functional... (more)