Jon Searles' photos with the keyword: Reading

This concrete viaduct is in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and carries a railroad line over the Susquehanna River. Incidentally, this isn't the famous Rockville Bridge where an accident occurred (containers blown off a freight train in a blizzard) the day after I took this. That bridge is considerably north of this one, and stone, in addition to having three fewer arches. It probably isn't visible in this photo. Therefore, this would be the Philadelphia & Reading bridge, built in 1924 named for the railroad that built it, which became the Reading Company later that year, being merged into Conrail in 1976, passing to Norfolk Southern in the Conrail breakup of 1997, meaning that Norfolk Southern are the current operators. Visible behind this bridge in the water are the ruins of some piers from the South Pennsylvania Railroad Bridge, started, but never completed, in 1884.

As our excursion pulled in, I got this lucky shot of 902 and 2398 lined up just right for this shot, which I quite like.

Here, back in order, this was where we picked up our Reading & Northern excursion train at the NRHS National Convention, led by a matching set of Reading EMD FP7s that had just been restored. Here's a shot of our train pulling in, headed by the FP7s, with a Reading and Northern freight on the adjacent track.

Slight out of order here....:-(, this was where we picked up our Reading & Northern excursion train at the NRHS National Convention, led by a matching set of Reading EMD FP7s that had just been restored. Here's the older of the two, number 902.

Unfortunately this shot failed to capture 2398's cab, but it does give one of the better views that I got of 3300 during the NRHS Convention, as it wasn't there for show and had to hurry on its way without being uncoupled for us to get a better look.

Here's a closer and more detailed shot of R&N 2398.

While we were waiting for our Reading & Northern excursion at West Leesport during the 1995 NRHS Convention, we also got to see this Reading & Northern freight, which at least had second generation diesel power on it, number 2398, a U23B and 3300, a U33C.