Reading & Northern 425 thunders through the Perry Rock Cut in Shoemakersville on its final weekend of operation before its 1472.
Reading T-1 No. 2102, southbound on the old PRR Schuylkill Division near the Glen-Gery plant along PA Route 61. Train speed was about 45 mph in this area.
During the 1986 Blue Mountain & Reading Railfan Weekend, BM&R’s ex-PRR E8’s ease through Shoemakersville, Pennsylvania.
Reading 4-8-4 2102 and Blue Mountain & Reading 4-6-2 425 double head a southbound train at Shoemakersville, Pennsylvania during the 1986 BM&R Railfan Weekend.
Restored Reading GP30 5513 is in passenger service on the Blue Mountain and Reading, running south through Shoemakersville, Pennsylvania.
Reading Technical & Historical Society’s restored Reading C630 5308 brings a northbound Blue Mountain & Reading passenger train through Shoemakersville, Pennsylvania.
Blue Mountain and Reading’s restored Pennsylvanis E8’s bring a passenger train north into Shoemakersville, Pennsylvania. While the EMD’s are on former PRR rails, discontinuance of any remain... (more)
A Blue Mountain and Reading work train pauses next to the one-time PRR station at Shoemakersville, Pennsylvania. The residents of the structure at the time were apparently fine with living in a r... (more)
Andy Muller's pair of E8s, Nos. 5898 & 5706 restored in PRR livery, put on a great show in excursion service.
In 1984, Andy Muller, owner of the fledgling Blue Mountain and Reading, purchased a wholesale lot (certainly upwards of 20) CF7’s from the Santa Fe, with at least one GP7u thrown in for good mea... (more)
On Memorial Day, 1986, Blue Mountain and Reading’s ex-GM&N Pacific rolls a short train into Shoemakersville, Pennsylvania.