Hometown Steam Sunday
For Steam Sunday here's another from last fall on a soggy day chasing the Reading and Northern 2102 on one of several fall foliage excursions she lead.
The stout 4-8-4 built in the Reading Railroad's own shops in 1945 is leading 17 cars headed back some 60 miles to North Reading from the Lehigh Gorge resort town of Jim Thorpe. This was one of the absolute best shows of the day and the sound was incredible here in this colorful tree tunnel as she barked up Hometown Hill at about MP 109.2 on the modern day RBMN's Reading Division mainline. Historically this is former Central Railroad of New Jersey Railroad branchline having been built in 1870 as Nesquehoning Valley Railroad Company.
Village of Hometown
Rush Township, Pennsylvania
Saturday October 14, 2023
Hometown Steam Sunday
For Steam Sunday here's another from last fall on a soggy day chasing the Reading and Northern 2102 on one of several fall foliage excursions she lead.
The stout 4-8-4 built in the Reading Railroad's own shops in 1945 is leading 17 cars headed back some 60 miles to North Reading from the Lehigh Gorge resort town of Jim Thorpe. This was one of the absolute best shows of the day and the sound was incredible here in this colorful tree tunnel as she barked up Hometown Hill at about MP 109.2 on the modern day RBMN's Reading Division mainline. Historically this is former Central Railroad of New Jersey Railroad branchline having been built in 1870 as Nesquehoning Valley Railroad Company.
Village of Hometown
Rush Township, Pennsylvania
Saturday October 14, 2023