Talk:Reading Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad

List of lines

 * NS trackage rights (Reading Line): Reading - CP Belt
 * NS trackage rights (Reading Line): CP Belt - Temple
 * Pennsy Line: Temple - Hamburg
 * CP Belt - Port Clinton
 * Philadelphia and Reading Railroad (RDG), 1842
 * Port Clinton - Haucks
 * Little Schuylkill Navigation, Railroad and Coal Company (RDG), 1831
 * Tremont Branch: Port Clinton - Good Spring
 * Philadelphia and Reading Railroad (RDG), 1842; Mine Hill and Schuylkill Haven Railroad (RDG), 1831-1847; Swatara Railroad (RDG), 1842-1851
 * Blue Mountain - Auburn
 * Pottsville Branch: Schuylkill Haven - Pottsville
 * Philadelphia and Reading Railroad (RDG), 1842; Mount Carbon Railroad (RDG), 1831
 * Middleport Running Track: Pottsville Junction - Middleport
 * Mount Carbon and Port Carbon Railroad (RDG), 1844; Schuylkill Valley Navigation and Railroad Company (RDG), 1830
 * Lager Junction - Mill Creek (formerly St. Clair?)
 * Mill Creek and Mine Hill Navigation and Railroad Company (RDG), 1829
 * Minersville Branch: Westwood - Minersville
 * Mine Hill and Schuylkill Haven Railroad (RDG), 1854
 * Swatara Junction - Swatara
 * Mine Hill and Schuylkill Haven Railroad? (RDG)
 * Greenwood Running Track: Tamaqua - Coaldale (formerly Lansford?)
 * Mahanoy and Shamokin Branch: East Mahanoy Junction - Mt. Carmel Junction (Enterprise)
 * East Mahanoy Railroad (RDG), 1860s; ? (RDG); Mahanoy and Broad Mountain Railroad (RDG), 1861-1862; Mine Hill and Schuylkill Haven Railroad (RDG), 1854-1860; ? (RDG)
 * Shenandoah Junction - Rappahannock (formerly Susquehanna?)
 * ? (RDG)
 * Haucks - Lofty
 * Catawissa, Williamsport and Erie Railroad (RDG), 1860; RBMN, 1987


 * (CR Camp Running Track, Shimer Running Track, New Boston Running Track?): Oneida Junction - Shimer - Laurel Junction - Morea
 * NS trackage rights (CR Camp Running Track, Hazleton Secondary; now NS Hazelton Running Track): Oneida Junction - Hazleton - Ashmore Junction
 * (CR Freeland Running Track): Ashmore Junction - Jeddo
 * Delano Running Track (CR Delano Industrial Track): Laurel Junction - Delano


 * Lehighton Branch (CR Nesquehoning Secondary): Haucks - Packerton Junction
 * Nesquehoning Bridge: Nesquehoning Junction - Coal


 * Lehigh Main Line: Lehighton - Dupont (joint with NS Lehighton - Independence?)
 * Crestwood Running Track: Penobscot - Crestwood Industrial Park
 * Susquehanna Branch (CR Lehigh Main Line): Dupont - Mehoopany
 * (CR Dunmore Running Track): Duryea Junction - Hillside Junction
 * Scranton Branch (CR Taylor Secondary): Pittston Junction - Taylor?
 * Scranton Running Track: ?

--NE2 01:18, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

STB dockets and other history

 * 30305, 1990: mentioned in 33512, related to transfer from Anthracite Railway to Blue Mountain and Reading Railroad (went to to East Penn Railways in 1995) of operation of state-owned (since 1982) lines:
 * Perkiomen Branch, USRA Line No. 906: Pennsburg (22.38) - Emmaus Junction (38.23)
 * Colebrookdale Industrial Track (Boyertown Branch), USRA Line No. 909: Colebrookdale Junction (Pottstown) (0.00) - Boyertown (8.60) (history)
 * Kutztown Branch, USRA line No. 910: Topton (0.17) - Kutztown (4.29)
 * Mt. Hope Industrial Branch, USRA Line No. 916: Manheim (0.36-1.0)
 * 32076, 1992: East Mahanoy and Hazleton Railroad acquired form Conrail:
 * Freeland Running Track: Ashmore Junction (141.0) - Pink Ash Junction (144.0)
 * Ebervale Running Track: Pink Ash Junction (144.1) - Route 940 (148.7)
 * Eckley Industrial Track: Freeland Running Track connection (143.1) - end (144.4)
 * Camp Running Track: York Junction (148.3) - Oneida Junction (147.4)
 * overhead trackage rights: Oneida Junction (147.4) - Ashmore Junction (141.3)
 * 1995: Blue Mountain and Reading Railroad operations ended (had operated since 1983 - when was the Pennsy Line sold to RBMN?)
 * 33004, 1996: acquired from Conrail:
 * Lehigh Line: Packerton Junction - Lehighton Yard, 0.1 mi overhead trackage rights; Lehighton Yard (119.4) - M&H Junction (130.5), track 1 only; M&H Junction (130.5-130.6), overhead trackage rights; M&H Junction (130.6) - Frazer (147.1); Frazer (143.8) - Laurel Run (161.2); Laurel Run (164.2) - Mehoopany (212.2)
 * Taylor Secondary: Taylor (136.7) - Pittston (142.5)
 * Taylor Yard between acquired lines, 0.8 mi overhead trackage rights
 * Taylor Yard (136.7) - east of Bridge 60, Scranton, 1.8 mi overhead trackage rights
 * Keyser Valley Industrial Track: Taylor (136.37) - Cayuga (140.7)
 * Dunmore Running Track: Duryea Junction (0.0) - Topps Gum (0.7)
 * Kerr-McGee Lead: Avoca (0.0) - end (0.3)
 * 33020, 1996: acquired overhead trackage rights on C&S Railroad between Mauch Chunk Junction and Packerton Junction
 * 33335, 1997: merged East Mahanoy and Hazleton Railroad (10 mi)
 * ?: D&H acquired Taylor Yard - Bridge 60 from Conrail
 * 33595, 1998: D&H acquired tracks in Taylor Yard from Conrail
 * 33599, 1998: D&H assigned Conrail overhead trackage rights through Taylor Yard to connect Taylor Secondary at Minooka Junction with Keyser Valley Industrial Track and existing Taylor Yard - Bridge 60 rights; to be assigned to RBMN
 * 34048, 2001: acquired lease from NS of line owned by Pennsylvania Lines LLC near Mehoopany, 212.2 - Robinson's Crossing (213.5)
 * 34225, 2002: NS acquired overhead trackage rights over Lehigh Line, Lehighton Yard (119.3) - Dupont (175.5); simultaneously over D&H freight main line, Sunbury (752.0) - Mechanicville (467.40)
 * NOR_42078, 2003: NS interchange location moved from Lehighton (here per 1996 Conrail agreement) to Penobscot (NS moved overhead traffic away from RBMN to Delaware Lackawanna Railroad in 2001)
 * 34785, 2005: to operate Locust Valley Line, Laurel Junction (Morea Junction) (0.0) - Newton Junction (5.5) (more history available here)
 * AB_996_0_X, 2006: abandon Minersville Running Track, 7.6-8.8 - withdrawn 2008
 * 39505, 2008: Lehigh Railway to lease from NS Athens (269.5) - Mehoopany (213.5)

According to RBMN had (unused) trackage rights over Conrail between Hazleton and M&H Junction. --NE2 02:56, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Lehigh Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad
Does anybody know the story between this and the name Lehigh Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad, which I stumbled over yesterday as a vandalized and uncategorized article. Clearly, they have overlapping coverages. Question being whether the 'Lehigh Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad' was a legal entity so a predecessor if the RBMN name is in fact the proper legal name today. Insights? // Fra nkB 19:40, 21 March 2017 (UTC)