Arriving Pittston
The last stop on our Reading & Northern chase was here splitting the controlled signals just south of the former Lehigh Valley Coxton Yard that is the end point of the run from North Reading. This is MP 3.1 on what modern day RBMN designates as their Susquehanna Branch, the continuation of the former Conrail upper Lehigh Line acquired in 1996. They are crossing over and running parallel here to the former Lackawanna Bloomsburg branch that just to the right of and below them and that is also now operated by RBMN here in this area.
Leading the way is 5019 in its new one of a kind (for now) paint scheme. This locomotive is a rebuilt SD50-2 acquired from CSXT that was originally blt. Mar. 1984 as Seaboard System 8550.
Pittston, Pennsylvania
Sunday June 20, 2021
Arriving Pittston
The last stop on our Reading & Northern chase was here splitting the controlled signals just south of the former Lehigh Valley Coxton Yard that is the end point of the run from North Reading. This is MP 3.1 on what modern day RBMN designates as their Susquehanna Branch, the continuation of the former Conrail upper Lehigh Line acquired in 1996. They are crossing over and running parallel here to the former Lackawanna Bloomsburg branch that just to the right of and below them and that is also now operated by RBMN here in this area.
Leading the way is 5019 in its new one of a kind (for now) paint scheme. This locomotive is a rebuilt SD50-2 acquired from CSXT that was originally blt. Mar. 1984 as Seaboard System 8550.
Pittston, Pennsylvania
Sunday June 20, 2021