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In response to " Were any rails actually laid besides Topton to Kutztown? " Yes. As per the book Railroads of the Lehigh River Valley by the Lehigh Valley Chapter NRHS: " In 1917 Philadelphia and Reading Railway company laid track on unused road bed of Allentown Railroad's proposed ma...

The L&NE's Catasauqua branch in latter years accounted for 10% of their total interchange traffic (occurring with the Lehigh Valley and the Reading railroads). A two-part article on the railroads of Catasauqua appears in the Anthracite Railroads Historical Society publication Flags, Diamonds and...

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R&N MP15 # 1542 and newly acquired F units departing Pottsville's Union Station Intermodal Transit Center spur after dropping off newly acquired RDC-1 #9167.

More photos of the R&N's recently acquired F units and RDC at Pottsville on May 25, 2017.

The units have been on the Reading and Northern since at least May 25, 2017. On that date a friend of mine was in Pottsville. He caught the R&N's recently acquired and newly repainted MP15 #1542 (ex NS #2426, which had had its final lettering applied the day before) with recently acquired ex-SRR...

Will be interested to see if Bowser offers their SD40-2F in CMQ or B&A paint schemes in 2017…

http://www.bowser-trains.com/new/GMD%20SD40-2F.html

While researching several eastern Pennsylvania shortline railroads (Ironton, Northampton & Bath, Chestnut Ridge), I learned that these lines rostered no cabooses until the late 1940s at the earliest (about the time they came under national union contracts requiring cabooses). I am aware that in ...

To clarify an earlier post, Reading and Northern is currently suing to run the North Shore group of railroads (six shortlines run in central Pennsylvania under contract for the SEDA-COG Joint Rail Authority). Luzerne and Susquehanna Railway is a separate railroad, run for a different authority (Luze...

It would appear Reading and Northern is not the only railroad fighting for a chance to bid on the North Shore contract. A Pittsburgh company is also interested in running the lines. The following is a brief (fair use) excerpt from the following website: http://wkok.com/pittsburgh-railroad-pitches-pr...

Good gosh, I need to study their "roster" page more carefully. It appears Reading & Northern also picked up four MP15's that Norfolk Southern recently put up for auction.

A review of the "roster" page on the Reading Blue Mountain & Northern's website shows some new motive power: 4-6-0 #225 (formerly Railtours, Steamtown, and CP #1098) and GP39RN (rebuilt GP30's) #2534 and 2535 (ex LETX 2413 and 2435). I have seen some photos posted online of the 225. Sh...

Just a few years ago the former Reading Topton-Kutztown and Pottstown-Boyertown branches seemed left for dead. Good news…this Spring of 2015 you can ride both of them! The Colebrookdale Railroad started excursion operations on the Boyertown line last year, and weekend trips resume starting March 28....

It is a fairly old resource, but the January 1984 issue of Trains magazine ran an very detailed, 10-page article on "the Executive E" (CR E8 4022). Included in the article was a chart showing the then current Conrail business car fleet. The roster at that time included: CR 1 (2nd) - former...

In response to the last two posts concerning the LV right-of-way from Allentown north to Cementon , and the ability to hike/bike the right-of-way, I refer you to an article posted on today's (February 2) Morning Call website concerning the completed sale of said right-of-way and the proposal to turn...