Eastern Railroad Discussion > R&N magazine link about the Fracking trains.

Just for your information here is a link to Reading & Northern Magazine that has great articles about their new fracking operations and the new market of Anthracite coal.

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/52545d1ce4b0183a5e0ec3b6/t/6269a65737caa619cd8a07a1/1651091036896/RBMN_2022SpringMagazine-FINAL-webspreads.pdf

Thanks for posting the link to the magazine.
A very nicely done and informative issue!
Appreciated ...

Odyssey
Evergreen, CO

The Reading and Northern simply does everything well. It's a huge, customer-oriented commercial success, and a rolling museum preserving the best practices of railroading.  

Art House

You can tell the President of this company cares about his employees.  And they keep getting more and more business.  If I was younger, I'd head east and apply to work for them.

I just read in the article that there's a huge demand in export coal, there could be several NS 520s and possible extras running the lower harrisburg line, imagine how crazy coal traffic was when we had all those coal trains to new jersey and eddystone?

this backs it up from their magazine:

"=15pxExport coal will likely TRIPLE. We already have orders for an
=15pxadditional 3000 carloads via the Port of Fairless Hills from our
=15pxexisting customers. That is on top of last years 1750 carloads.
=15pxBased on incoming requests for rates, that number could grow
=15pxanother 1,000-2,000 carloads! And these customers are all
=15pxlooking to make multi-year commitments for even greater
=15pxvolumes."

nick

coach Wrote:
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> You can tell the President of this company cares
> about his employees.  And they keep getting more
> and more business.  If I was younger, I'd head
> east and apply to work for them.

From all I've heard Reading & Northern takes good care of its employees.

Posted from Android

Great article, thanks for the link.  FYI, North Shore's Lycoming Valley Railroad unit has had a similar transload for Fracking sand for several years adjacent to their yard at Avis PA, on the former NYC shops complex grounds.  They are handling similar amounts of sand,destined for the drilling fields further west, in the Wellsboro/Galeton area. Drill baby, drill! Lots of that PA gas flowing in a 24" pipeline to shiny new power plants at Towanda, Montgomery, Shamokin Dam, and York Haven.
 

Lackawanna484 Wrote:
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> coach Wrote:
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> > You can tell the President of this company
> cares
> > about his employees.  And they keep getting
> more
> > and more business.  If I was younger, I'd head
> > east and apply to work for them.
>
> From all I've heard Reading & Northern takes good
> care of its employees.
>
> Posted from Android

 I know one individual who says different. Says they have issues. But I agree with what I see here. Ben

>  I know one individual who says different. Says
> they have issues. But I agree with what I see
> here. Ben

In this day and age, who doesn't have "issues?"  From everything I've seen, RBMN is a top-notch operation for freight customers, passengers, railfans and employees. All good things to all the stakeholders.

Art House

I see they recently hired an operating employee from NS.

Allen