“Cat Pole Not Included”Pictured at Bayview Yard, this “Paducah rebuild”, the former PRR/PC/CR GP9 7056 (built 1956), retained its high short hood when rebuilt* for... (more)
By 1985, not many Reading cast iron crossbucks were still in service. This one, guarding Elverson Road in Joanna, Pennsylvania, has little time left, as one of the final Grace Mine cleanout trains... (more)
The crew of the Grace Mine cleanout train has dropped their empty cars well short of the Elverson Road crossing in Joanna, Pennsylvania, and is now proceeding south to grab lunch at the Joanna Sto... (more)
The portion of the former Reading Wilmington & Northern branch between Joanna and Coatesville, Pennsylvania was ripped up in the early 1980’s, but the portion from Birdsboro to Grace Mine was ke... (more)
In a location captured by many photographers of the Reading Company, a Grace mine cleanout train ambles down the Wilmington & Northern branch along the Hay Creek south of Birdsboro, Pennsylvania. ... (more)
A local crew from Reading is in the process of picking up 30 empty hoppers at the Dyers stone quarry on the Reading Belt Line. These hoppers are not destined to be loaded with stone today. Instead... (more)