Reading Blue Mountain & Northern Railroad | Port Clinton to Proctor & Gamble

Описание: Reading Blue Mountain & Northern Railroad | Port Clinton to Proctor & Gamble

In September of 2021 we chased two trains on the Reading & Northern. First train in the video was with the "North Reading Fast Freight" sporting a pair of SD40-2s. We start the chase from Port Clinton to Penobscot. I've heard some of the local fans call this the "America's Train."

For the second half of the video we follow Reading & Northern's Mehoopany Job as it switched the P&G Plant with two GP39RN. We started the chase just north of Pittston along the Susquehanna River and follow up to the Mehoopany Proctor & Gamble plant for some switching, then even the chase at the Vosburg Tunnel in Tunkhannock. There was a little disappointment when we saw the train doing a push/pull operation as you will surely hear.

Power:
RBMN 3057 EMD SD40-2 - ex UP 3066; nee CNW 6901.
RBMN 3053 EMD SD40-2 - ex UP 84321; UP 4321; nee MP 3321.
RBMN 2535 EMD GP39RN - ex LTEX 2435; ex-BNSF 2435; nee-AT&SF 2735; 3235; 1235.
RBMN 2532 EMD GP39RN - ex LTEX 2445; ex BNSF 2445; ex ATSF 2745; ex ATSF 3245; ex ATSF 1245.

00:00 Port Clinton
01:00 North Reading Fast Freight
02:01 New Ringgold
03:02 Barnesville
04:01 Jim Thorpe - Lehigh River
05:12 Penobscot
06:04 Pittston
08:05 Falls
08:52 West Falls
09:25 Proctor & Gamble - Mehoopany
13:30 Vosburg Tunnel - Tunkhannock

From Wikipedia:
The Reading Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad (reporting mark RBMN), sometimes shortened to Reading and Northern Railroad, is a regional railroad in eastern Pennsylvania. Its headquarters is in Port Clinton. The RBMN provides freight service on 300 miles (480 km) of track. Its mainline consists of the Reading Division between Reading and Packerton and the Lehigh Division between Lehighton and Dupont. Its main freight cargo is anthracite coal.

Passenger excursions also run on RBMN tracks. The RBMN itself operates excursion service from Reading and Port Clinton to Jim Thorpe, while the Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway (LGSR) offers service between Jim Thorpe and Lehigh Gorge State Park.

The Blue Mountain and Reading Railroad was founded in 1983 to provide freight service on the former Pennsylvania Railroad Schuylkill Division between Hamburg and Temple. Starting in 1985, the BM&R began operating passenger excursions over the line using two steam locomotives: ex-Gulf, Mobile and Northern Railroad 4-6-2 425 and ex-Reading Company T-1 4-8-4 2102. The BM&R also began operating three more state-owned lines. The railroad also entered into a partnership with the Reading Company Technical and Historical Society, which leased track space in Leesport and in return leased two diesel locomotives and assorted passenger cars for use on the line.

More at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading...

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