As 2025 was nearing its end, I had a couple hours in the afternoon where the sun graced the sky.

With hopes of finding Norfolk Southern’s H23 local on the Lititz Secondary, I drove to the branch’s modern-day namesake, only to find that the train had gone.

Following the line of the old Reading & Columbia, I overtook the slowly moving freight near Manheim, and drove to intercept it passing the former Reading Company station, now preserved by the local historical society. Among other things, they display a PRR position light signal and a former New York Central System boxcar.

I arrived in just enough time to expose these images using my Nikon Z6.

The chase was on! More fodder for the recasting of the Wee Reading Company, or just photos of a passing freight? It is too soon to say.

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