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Length. 400 miles (640 km) [ 1] Other. Website. www .rbmnrr .com. 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 400 miles (640 km) of track.
Port Clinton, Pennsylvania. / 40.58222°N 76.02444°W / 40.58222; -76.02444. Port Clinton is a borough in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. It is located at the confluence of the Schuylkill and Little Schuylkill rivers, it was a port on the Schuylkill Canal and named after DeWitt Clinton. [ 3]
Disposition. Undergoing 1,472-day inspection and overhaul. Reading Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad 425 is a 4-6-2 light "Pacific" type steam locomotive originally built in 1928 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for the Gulf, Mobile & Northern Railroad. After the GM&N was consolidated into the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio in 1940, the locomotive was ...
Based in Port Clinton, Berks County, Reading & Northern is a privately held railroad company serving over 80 customers in nine eastern Pennsylvania counties: Berks, Bradford, Carbon, Columbia ...
39°58′02″N 75°11′16″W. / 39.96722°N 75.18778°W / 39.96722; -75.18778 ( Canal End) The Schuylkill Canal, or Schuylkill Navigation, was a system of interconnected canals and slack-water pools along the Schuylkill River in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, built as a commercial waterway in the early 19th-century.
An unfinished tunnel on the Allentown Railroad in 2009. The D&S and CNJ jointly procured a charter, issued April 19, 1853, for the Allentown Railroad, which would construct the first segment of the route. It ran n from Allentown to the Reading main line between Auburn and Port Clinton, with a branch into Kutztown.
Reading Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad 2102 (historically known as Reading 2102) is a preserved "T-1" 4-8-4 "Northern" type steam locomotive.Originally built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in March 1925 as an "I-10sa" 2-8-0 "Consolidation" type locomotive for the Reading Company, No. 2102 was rebuilt by the Reading's own locomotive Shops as a 4-8-4 "Northern" in September 1945, and it ...
In the early 1850s construction resumed, and in 1854 the railroad reached Milton, where it connected with the Sunbury and Erie Railroad (renamed the Philadelphia and Erie in 1861). At Tamanend the railroad connected with the Little Schuylkill Navigation Railroad , which ran along the Little Schuylkill River to Tamaqua and Port Clinton , where ...