A Blue Mountain & Reading Temple – Harrisburg excursion is just under way at Belt Line Junction, Pennsylvania. For reasons that I don’t recall, the train avoided the Reading Belt line and inst... (more)

After a successful round trip to Philadelphia, Reading 4-8-4 2102 backs the Blue Mountain & Reading excursion toward home rails at Belt Line Junction, Pennsylvania. The connection between Conrail�... (more)

The power dispatchers on the Delaware & Hudson sometimes seemed to forget that their Potomac Yard trains reversed direction in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Here train RPPY is seen at Belt Line Junctio... (more)

A westbound Conrail manifest is about to enter the Reading Belt Line at Belt Line Junction, timetable west of Reading, Pennsylvania. The tracks to the right are the former Reading main line from d... (more)

Three Conrail B36-7’s lead train Mail-3 through Belt Line Junction near Reading, Pennsylvania. The B36-7’s have been the preferred power for Mail and other hot trains since they bumped GP40 an... (more)

A westbound Conrail manifest rolls through Belt Line Junction near Reading, Pennsylvania. The typical pair of SD40-2’s have an SW1001 and a Boston & Maine F7B in tow.

Conrail B36-7 “class unit” 5000 leads a westbound mail train through Belt Line Junction, Pennsylvania. The B36-7’s immediately replaced GP40-2’s as the preferred power for hot intermodal t... (more)

Conrail Local WHRE-99 shoves a long string of empty hoppers for the anthracite regions toward Tuckerton, Pennsylvania. In two more years, this move would be an interchange to the Reading & Norther... (more)

Some of Conrail’s “new guard” leads a train out of Reading, Pennsylvania as a C40-8W and a C32-8 roll through Belt Line Junction.

A pair of year-old SD50’s teams with an SW1500 to lead a Conrail train out of Reading at Belt Line Junction.

An SD40-2. A GP40, and two SD40’s wait for a signal at Belt Line Junction near Reading, Pennsylvania. Belt Line Junction is an “X”-shaped plant. The train seen here is on the main line from ... (more)

Conrail train ZBB, a unit ore train from Philadelphia (Greenwich) to Bethlehem Steel in Bethlehem, rolls into Belt Line Junction on the Reading Belt Line. Three SD40-2’s have matters well in han... (more)

A train of empty hoppers departs the Conrail yard in Reading, Pennsylvania. This is Belt Line Junction, so named for the point where the Reading Belt Line, seen to the right, diverged from the mai... (more)

Four Conrail GP40/GP40-2’s wheel an westbound train off of the former Reading main line and onto the Blandon Low Grade at Belt Line Junction, Pennsylvania. Soon the train will be rolling toward ... (more)

Five months old, a Florida East Coast boxcar rolls through Belt Line Junction, Pennsylvania.