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  • The Reading Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad (reporting mark RBMN) (a.k.a. Reading and Northern Railroad) is a regional railroad operating in eastern Pennsylvania. Website: http://www.rbmnrr.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The Reading Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad (reporting mark RBMN) (a.k.a. Reading and Northern Railroad) is a regional railroad operating in eastern Pennsylvania. Website: http://www.rbmnrr.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
 #611160  by mst145
 
It's full steam ahead for Reading and Northern Railroad
By Darrin Youker
Reading Eagle
12/8/2008
Port Clinton, PA -Walking into the board room of the Reading and Northern Railroad, a visitor's eyes instinctively drift to the ceiling. Twelve feet overhead, an artist has painted a sweeping map of Pennsylvania. On it, Reading and Northern's 315-mile rail system takes center stage. Classic railroad sounds - grinding metal wheels on rails, the low rumble of powerful engines - fill the windowed board room, which has a commanding view of the company's main rail yards in this Schuylkill County community. Dozens of coal hoppers and engines lie in wait on the company's feeder tracks. From an unassuming start 25 years ago, the Reading and Northern has grown into a sizable regional railroad, and one of the area's main freight haulers. It started as a tiny railroad, serving five companies between Temple and Hamburg, but now controls an eight-county region. "We are the largest privately held railroad in the commonwealth, said Wayne A. Michel, president of the railroad. "We are a huge engine of economic development."
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