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Reading & Northern lines up special excursions from Reading for 2024 season

By Trains Staff | April 3, 2024

Pottsville, Tamaqua, Minersville set as destinations

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A Reading & Northern train awaits action at the railroad’s Reading Outer Station. Scott A. Hartley

PORT CLINTON, Pa. — Reading & Northern’s primary passenger execursion routes may lead to Jim Thorpe, Pa., but the company is also offering trips this year to destinations including Pottsville, Tamaqua, and Minersville from its Reading Outer Station.

Pottsville excursions are set for April 13, May 11, June 8, Aug. 17, and Sept. 14. Those trips will offer more than five hours in Pottsville, with opportunities to tour the Yuengling Brewery, the Jerry’s Classic Cars & Collectibles Museum, or Schuylkill County Historical Society Museum. Excursions also coincide with an outdoor farmer’s market at the Pottsville station. More information on those trips is available here.

That page also has information on a May 18 excursion to Minersville for the first Minersville Community Day, which will feature excursions by CNJ 0-6-0 No. 113 [see “Project 113 sets trips …,” Trains News Wire, March 22, 2024], and trips to Tamaqua Summerfest on Father’s Day, June 16, and Tamaqua Railfest on Aug. 24.

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