READING & NORTHERN  

The Reading & Northern operates lines of Reading and Lehigh Valley ancestory in eastern Pennsylvania.The road is headquartered in Port Clinton, PA in a built-new shop complex that has the look and feel of an old time railroad terminal.

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B23-7's #2300 & 2301 are making up train YJPI at Pittston, PA on September 10, 2000. The #2300 came from the Great Miami RR in Ohio and features a home made low nose. It has since gone to the Finger Lakes RR in NY.

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SD38's #2003, 2004, 2001 and 2002 are southbound at New Ringgold, PA on September 9, 2000. The units are still in the colors of former owner Grand Trunk.

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simple_new_green.gifSD38 #2000 on a coal extra from Minersville, is headed south through the town of Landingville, PA on July 14, 2011.

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simple_new_green.gifThe train continues on the Pottsville branch over an ex-Reading stone bridge across the Schuylkill River near Landingville.

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simple_new_green.gifSD38 #2004 brings 22 loads of coal from the Lehigh Coal & Navigation mine site in nearby Coaldale into Tamaqua, PA on July 14, 2011. This short branch was originally part of the Lehigh & New England RR.

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simple_new_green.gifSD40-2's #3055, 3057, 3053 & SD50 #5014 lead a southbound loaded QIT coal train  though downtown Tamaqua, PA on July 14, 2011.

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SD40-2 #3050 and SD38 #2004 are switching their train after having arrived at the yard in Penobscot, PA on November 8, 2003.

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simple_new_green.gifSD40-2's #3055 and 3053 bring PNRG south on NS tracks through Reading, PA on July 16, 2011. This train runs from Port Clinton to the NS yard in Reading to interchange cars.

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simple_new_green.gifSD50 #5014 on QAJT passes SD38's #2004 & 2000 in downtown Tamaqua, PA on July 15, 2011. This train runs from Tamaqua to Jim Thorpe, PA and back.

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simple_new_green.gifSD50 #5014 brings QARG into Port Clinton, PA past the entrance to the R&N shops on the evening of July 15, 2011.

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SD50 #5033 lays over with the Lehigh Gorge Scenic excursion train in the company of the Anthracite RR Historical Society's restored CNJ F3's #56 & 57. Jim Thorpe, PA on August 13, 2005.

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simple_new_green.gifSW8 #803 on local PNWC is switching cars in the yard at Cressona, PA on the Pottsville branch on July 14, 2011. This unit started life as the LV #270.

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simple_new_green.gifA pair of pups, SW8's #801 & 802 are on train QAMC southbound at Tamqua, PA on July 14, 2011. This train services customers on the Mahoney & Shamokin branch.

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SW1500's #1546 & 1548 rest at the shop complex in Port Clinton, PA on September 9, 2000. Both of these units came from Conrail.

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U23B's #2398, 2399 & 2398 lay over at Jim Thorpe, PA on June 6, 1997. These units are now off the roster.

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simple_new_green.gifU23B #2399 sits dead and out of service outside the shops of the orginal Blue Mountain and Reading line on the east side of the Schuylkill River in Hamburg, PA on September 9, 2000.

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simple_new_green.gifCaboose #477514 brings up the rear of a southbound 110 car QIT coal extra at New Ringgold, PA on July 15, 2011.