NS Reading Line
Author: Jacob Kempf
Photo Gallery
Westbound 38G sports dual blue units today.
Eastbound 214 heads toward New Jersey with a UP unit leading.
A trio of UP units take 213 west.
Eastbound 212 heads into sweet morning light at Bowers with a pair of UP units trailing.
Just as the sun hits the cornfields of Berks County, NS 23M heads west with an SD70M-2 leading.
Westbound 34A has a sweet lashup today including a geep completely covered in silver spray paint.
Two Dash-9s and an SD40-2 take 38G west.
Thought this was rather interesting
Eastbound 18N prepares to cross over to Main one at CP Alburtis to run around HA13.
Westbound 38G has just crossed from Main one to Main two at CP Alburtis due to track crews in Lyons.
A pair of standard cabs lead a short 15T west through Alburits amidst a rain shower.
NS 8401, formerly Conrail 6199, leads 24Z east. At the time of this photo, there was still over 150 blue units left. That number hns now dwindled to 44.
A late running roadrailer crawls through Macungie on a fall afternoon.
After stopping in Lyons due to bad air, 34A is now moving again, seen in the fields outside of town.
Not far behine 19G was 38G with a repainted SD60 on the point.
Empty unit trash train 64J hits some early morning light at Longswamp.
A pair of widecab EMDs lead 11J through Alburtis on Boxing Day.
A late 19G heads through snow covered fields in Lyons with a nice lashup.
Westbound 19G heads through Emmaus in the mid afternoon
Eastbound 18N heads through Emmaus in the late evening
Eastbound 16T heads through Macungie with a rather nice lashup.
Eastbound local HA13 slows, seen crossing Gehman Road in Macungie
NS 34A heads through Bowers with 7 units including a former Conrail geep.
An NS D9 leads a CN D9 and a pair of CSX units on a westbound empty ethanol train in Emmaus.
Westbound manifest train 15T heads through Alburtis on a hot evening.
Conductor Marc Samuelson gives a wave as 18N passes through Longswamp.
A pair of BNSF units lead NS 15T west through Emmaus on a gorgeous summer evening.
Former Conrail D8 8451 leads 11J west through Emmaus on a gorgeous afternoon.
Westbound manifest 19G struggles up the grade through Emmaus with an SD70M-2 up front.
An extra section of 24Z heads east through Emmaus with one of the nine remaining SD50s on NS's roster up front.
Upon arriving at Emmaus, I was stopped at 7th street for H68. Here's a shot of him heading west seen from my front passenger window.
NS 3001 is the sole unit on Reading local H47 today, seen in Alburtis as it heads west back to its train. 3001 is one of four blue GP40-2s on NS and one of three Reading units. This unit was previously RDG 3674.
A roster view of NS 3001 at the Smith Lane grade crossing.
A D9 leads three more units east on Conway to Allentown train 10N.
20E meets 21M in Longswamp Township, seen from the shoulder of Hilltop Rd.
NS 212 heads east through Emmaus at 8:35AM. The trailing unit is a UP SD60M.
A very late and long 22V heads east through Macungie. The train will set off one car and pick up 26, having a nearly two mile train into Jersey.
A monstrously long 212 slowly moves through Emmaus due to a malfunctioning crossing. Rather new UP SD70ACe 8647 leads older power under cloudy skies.
NS 23M was late departing from New Jersey due to a derailment this morning. With the crew short on time, the train hauls west around the curve at Kilines Lane in Emmaus.
NS 2611 leads a pair of GEs west on manifest 15T through the slight grade in Emmaus in the early evening.
An SD70M-2 leads manifest 19G through a work zone and restricted signals. This view is from the Fourth Street Overpass.
With the glow of the morning sun making a red color, three GEs lead a short 21M west.
The sun has just risen on this muggy summer morning as stack train 22V highballs east toward Bethlehem.
A pair of GEs lead a 66Q ethanol train east past the railfan park in Macungie.
ESPN 52 sits at the Kutztown branch interchange on Topton.
A pair of Dash-9s lead unit autorack train 11J west seen from the shoulder of Hilltop Road. The first set of five cars are newer unilevel autoracks built to transport larger vehicles like campers and RVs.
An older NS SD70 leads a Dash-8 and a GEVO on eastbound manifest 16N seen from the fields outside of Macungie on a beautiful morning.
A second 16N came eass today, this one with a Dash-9 leading an SD60M. Wind and clouds were beginning to roll in, thus initiating many games of hide and seek with the sun.
6912, a rebuilt SD60E, leads manifest 38G west on track two.
A Dash-9 and a pair of Dash-8s lead an empty ethanol train west through the rolling fields of Berks County on a windy morning.