Reading and Northern Recieves New Passenger Equipment

[@StephenCarlBaldwin]

Thanks for getting out in the cold to record this new passenger equipment. So wonderful to see a railroad where passenger service is BOOMING!

[@brianfalzon6739]

Congratulations R&N for adding those cars to make your roster grow bigger a lot more!

[@JamieMakin]

Nice video! I was surprised to see something out so soon after the delivery. I work for Reading & Northern and was the one riding on the back of car 1962 between Mt. Carmel and East Mahanoy Junction. Great shot of us going along the ridge paralleling 54 just south of Mt. Carmel, that's a shot I hope to get someday myself of something running there. And it was nice to see a lot of the North Shore delivery as that's the half of the day I wasn't there for.

[@Engineer5344]

jamie, where did these cars come from? they are beautiful old time cars that will fit in perfectly with R&N. i dunno how andy found them but it's not easy to find old time cars still in good condition. god bless him for finding them.

[@brent.michael.f.j.snyder]

@@Engineer5344 they belonged to Jeff Pontius. He ran a holding company called Penn Valley Rail Road that did fall foliage and Christmas trips and others on the North Shore system.

[@bobjohnston8316]

I rode in one of those cars a couple of years back when they ran an excursion in conjunction with the RR Museum of PA. We boarded in Sunbury and ran to Shamokin (actually beyond Shamokin) and back with a lunch stop in Shamokin and a chance to see the huge model RR club layout there. By the end of the day I wished that I had paid the extra for a ticket in one of the two(?) air conditioned cars. We never exceeded 15 MPH and it was a hot and humid day. Still, a great rare mileage trip.

[@axle17921]

@@JamieMakin I saw ya, I heard you doing commentary on your video

[@axle17921]

@@JamieMakin I love that angle

[@blackrocks8413]

Nice video and thanks for the look at the new cars. Glad to see them in such good shape

[@TheNorthwestWind]

amazing and beautiful stuff

[@dp6654]

new only to R&N, all these cars came from the Penn Valley RR operations in central PA. that operated on the North Shore RR. although painted for PRR, none of these cars are of PRR origin.

[@NCXDesigns]

Well they honor the PRR region in those colors tho. And look good in it especially the Pennsylvania typeface. Was this around Lewisburg? My father tried to get us up there in the 90s to ride but by then I think the railroad shutdown excursions.

[@railroad9000]

Good looking cars!

[@Roon3808]

There goes my hope of a North Shore ran Danville-Bloomsburg-Berwick Bloomsburg Fair train. 😏😏

[@trezjr73]

Looks like this year's trains will be over 20 cars long!

[@davidjohnston6922]

Now they will get the beautiful Pepto-Bismol paint job and sticks to hold the windows up, yea!

[@Stussmeister]

Very nice. I have yet to visit this wonderful railroad, though I have been to the nearby Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railroad.

[@axle17921]

Same railroad

[@Stussmeister]

@@axle17921 Hmmm, from my understanding, the Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railroad departs from Jim Thorpe, whereas the Reading & Northern Railroad has its station in Port Clinton. It isn't out of the realm of possibility, though, for both railroads to share equipment.

[@axle17921]

@Stussmeister Reading and Northern owns the Lehigh gorge scenic, it's just what they call their everyday tourist rides

[@Stussmeister]

@@axle17921 Ah, OK, understood.

[@kevinsalsbury2118]

Are these the same cars that are used for the Anthracite heritage festival in Shamokin?

[@bennyztrainz]

I've rode those cars on the Bellefonte central before my railroad society had their own cars.

[@richardbrobeck2384]

great video !

[@edwinsinclair9853]

Where are these cars from?

[@lancomedic]

That’s what I’d like to know. Cleary someone has been caring for them. I hope they stay in PRR livery.

[@seven8n235]

​@lancomedic the three clerestory roof cars are ex DL&W MU cars. Repainted for PRR which I find objectionable as an old Lackawanna fan. 😅

[@brent.michael.f.j.snyder]

@@seven8n235 I mean the man who owned them started out on PRR as a conductor. He went on to Conrail and ran 1361 a couple times. After his stint runnin 1361 went to work for North Shore and retired in the 2000s as their VP of Operations.

[@lancomedic]

@@seven8n235 I would find that objectionable also. What about the smooth side cars? If none are original Pennsy then sure, repaint them in RN livery.

[@Bob-x9h4p]

The gentleman and a friend of my dad's Jeff Pontius was the owner of them cars.

[@daveaurand7857]

I wish I would’ve known, I live in Paxinos and would have gone to watch them go by

[@Ih8kone]

They need a dining car.

[@robkrasinski6217]

Why did Andy/R&N buy them? Did North Shore stop running various excursions they did over their branches and is now freight only? Those coaches would have been nice with the PRR #1361 when restored on the Nittany and Bald Eagle. But that won't happen unless the #1361 comes to the R&N.

[@axle17921]

@robkrasinski6217 the owner is getting older and doesn't want to deal with them anymore, wanted to give them a good home where they would be taken care of

[@RedArrow73]

Switcher model is ________?

[@jmream2618]

EMD MP15DC

[@bboy1813]

North Shore #1942 is an EMD SW1500

[@RedArrow73]

@@bboy1813 Wonder if they have any Electroliners?

[@johnuhelski8613]

NEARLY EVERY run past on the shade side , WHY ??!!

[@axle17921]

@@johnuhelski8613 because I don't tresspass on railroad property

[@maestromecanico597]

Mixed train! Should have sold tickets.

[@stevozubo]

who is yelling around the 1640 mark?

[@stevozubo]

Who is yelling around the 1640 mark?

[@axle17921]

@@stevozubo 2 railfans were yelling at each other

[@ReggieArford]

You start out with a tiny switcher and a long train. By the end, you've got a shorter train pulled by two GPs. What gives?

[@dp6654]

no locations given until you're 14:40 into the video...wtf???

[@RedArrow73]

Point well taken. You should always report the video location.

[@johndoran3274]

They put it on the screen before they started switching cars and they are literally PARKED next to the Paxinos road sign,,,, lol

[@MarkCinque-uq9kh]

How about a Beavis and a Butt-head recieve new equipment uh,huh,em,heh1:52