Mr. Muller loves logos
Today we'll visit the south end of the R&N, North Reading Yard. A facility constructed from nearly nothing in 1991 (one year after their acquisition of the Conrail Reading Cluster) into a long 4 track yard complete with a weigh in motion scale for outbound loads of Anthracite, passenger platforms (called Outer Station), Mr. Muller's reproduction railroad signs, lit switchlamps, a water tank, a spur with displayed equipment (including 4-6-0 No. 225, sporting this logo) and as of 2018 a yard office constructed in the fashion of a Reading Company interlocking tower.
Yard jobs go to work here at 6 o'clock am and pm. Usually a pair of MP15's live in the yard coupled nose to nose. Although there are no active customers there are occasional runs up Mr. Muller's original acquisition, the former Blue Mountain & Reading. Just south of outer station is Belt Line Junction, now NS property. The morning job will go across Belt Line Junction first thing in the morning to pull the interchange from NS. Delivering the interchange off to NS is usually the last thing the evening job does. Access to the former BM&R is also achieved by going onto NS at Belt Line Junction and going north a short distance to get back on home rails at Temple. The line is being used for oil car storage at the moment, though not long ago was cleared temporarily for a former RDG GP39-2 to be delivered to the Reading Company Technical & Historical Society's museum at the end of the line in Hamburg.
Mr. Muller loves logos
Today we'll visit the south end of the R&N, North Reading Yard. A facility constructed from nearly nothing in 1991 (one year after their acquisition of the Conrail Reading Cluster) into a long 4 track yard complete with a weigh in motion scale for outbound loads of Anthracite, passenger platforms (called Outer Station), Mr. Muller's reproduction railroad signs, lit switchlamps, a water tank, a spur with displayed equipment (including 4-6-0 No. 225, sporting this logo) and as of 2018 a yard office constructed in the fashion of a Reading Company interlocking tower.
Yard jobs go to work here at 6 o'clock am and pm. Usually a pair of MP15's live in the yard coupled nose to nose. Although there are no active customers there are occasional runs up Mr. Muller's original acquisition, the former Blue Mountain & Reading. Just south of outer station is Belt Line Junction, now NS property. The morning job will go across Belt Line Junction first thing in the morning to pull the interchange from NS. Delivering the interchange off to NS is usually the last thing the evening job does. Access to the former BM&R is also achieved by going onto NS at Belt Line Junction and going north a short distance to get back on home rails at Temple. The line is being used for oil car storage at the moment, though not long ago was cleared temporarily for a former RDG GP39-2 to be delivered to the Reading Company Technical & Historical Society's museum at the end of the line in Hamburg.