Tickets for another highly anticipated season of Fall Foliage passenger excursions on the Reading & Northern Railroad will go on sale at 9:00am Tuesday, May 27, 2025. Customers will be able to purchase their tickets online at www.rbmnrr passenger.com or by calling the railroad’s passenger office at 610-562-2102. Five weekends of excursions to Jim Thorpe originating from Reading, Pittston, and Pottsville will be offered beginning Saturday, October 4 through Sunday, November 2, 2025.
Reading Outer Station, located at 3501 Pottsville Pike, Reading, PA, 19605, will host its ninth Fall Foliage season in 2025. Trains departing from this location will feature the vintage F-Unit diesel locomotives from the 1950s; or, on Saturdays October 4, 18, and 25, steam locomotive #2102, which was built by the Reading Shops in 1945 and restored to operation in 2022. These excursions will also make a station stop at Port Clinton on their way to Jim Thorpe. Seating in Standard Coach, Crown Class, Vista Class Dome, Lounge, and Parlor cars; as well as Pullman rooms, will be available. Ticket prices will vary depending on the seating option chosen. All trains from Reading Outer Station depart at 9:00am sharp.
The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Regional Railroad Station, now in its third year of operation, will once again host fall train excursions as well. The departure time for all fall trains from Pittston is 8:45am. Standard Coach, Crown Class Coach, Vista Class Dome, and Lounge Observation seating will be offered. As with excursions originating from Reading, ticket prices vary by seating class. The station is located at 718 North Main Street, Pittston, PA, 18640. An additional stop will be made along the route at Penobscot (Mountain Top) to board more passengers. Finally, Pottsville Union Station will once again feature Fall Foliage trains bound for Jim Thorpe. Union Station is located at 1 Progress Street, Pottsville, PA 17901. Our self-propelled rail diesel cars, or RDCs, will be utilized on this route. Additional station stops will be available
at Schuylkill Haven and Tamaqua for passenger convenience. This year, our new flag stop at the Village at Houser’s Crossing will be offered to its overnight guests who wish to take a hassle free day trip to Jim Thorpe as part of their getaway. Trains depart Pottsville at 8:30am and will be the first of the three excursion trains to arrive in Jim Thorpe each weekend day during Fall Foliage Season. All tickets for trains operating along this route are $49.00.
As always, the 45-minute Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway trains will be departing from Jim Thorpe Station every hour on Fall Foliage weekends beginning at 9:00am, with the last departure at 5:00pm. Tickets for LGSR trains during this extraordinarily busy time must be purchased the same day, in-person, on a first come/first served basis. Standard Coach, Crown Class Coach, and Open-Air Car seating will be available.
-via Press Release
