I ♡ 2102!
Everybody loves Reading and Northern 2102 but here she is telling us she loves us right back!
The stout 4-8-4 built in the Reading Railroad's own shops in 1945 is charging out of the north (compass west) portal of the 926 ft long Tamaqua Tunnel with a 17 car long fall foliage excursion headed from North Reading to Jim Thorpe.
This particular stretch is of Reading Railroad provenance and dates to 1854 so the famous T-1 is very much on home rails where she once served the RDG on both coal trains and the famed Reading Rambles of the 1960s. Today this line is known as the RBMN's Reading Division mainline at just about MP 100. After emerging from north portal of the tunnel here the will immediately cross the Little Schuylkill River and then do so again just behind me as they work their way up grade thru the colorful valley.
Rush Township, Pennsylvania
Saturday October 14, 2023
I ♡ 2102!
Everybody loves Reading and Northern 2102 but here she is telling us she loves us right back!
The stout 4-8-4 built in the Reading Railroad's own shops in 1945 is charging out of the north (compass west) portal of the 926 ft long Tamaqua Tunnel with a 17 car long fall foliage excursion headed from North Reading to Jim Thorpe.
This particular stretch is of Reading Railroad provenance and dates to 1854 so the famous T-1 is very much on home rails where she once served the RDG on both coal trains and the famed Reading Rambles of the 1960s. Today this line is known as the RBMN's Reading Division mainline at just about MP 100. After emerging from north portal of the tunnel here the will immediately cross the Little Schuylkill River and then do so again just behind me as they work their way up grade thru the colorful valley.
Rush Township, Pennsylvania
Saturday October 14, 2023