{"id":118187,"date":"2026-02-19T16:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T16:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/118187\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T16:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T16:59:08","slug":"reading-northern-announces-2026-excursions-to-jim-thorpe-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/118187\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading &#038; Northern announces 2026 excursions to Jim Thorpe, Pa."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">PORT CLINTON, Pa. &#8211; The Reading &amp; Northern has announced its 2026 schedule of mainline excursions to Jim Thorpe, Pa., featuring operations from Pittston and Reading, Pa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Trains will run Saturdays and Sundays through Sept. 20, as well as St. Patrick&#8217;s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, and Labor Day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The railroad will also offer its annual fall foliage excursions, to be announced at a later date, and weekend trips in November and December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Regular fares remain at $39 from either location, and can be purchased at the railroad website or by calling 610-562-2102 daily between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Trains from the Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton regional station in Pittston depart at 8:45 a.m. and also make stops at Mountain Top\/Penobscot and White Haven. These trains feature first-class observation car King Coal, which can only be boarded at Pittston, and Crown Class coaches, along with a dining car offering snacks, beverages, and souvenirs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Trains from Reading are mainly served by the railroad&#8217;s Budd Rail Diesel Cars, which feature a refreshment counter in RDC No. 9166. Those trains depart Reading at 9 a.m. and make stops at Port Clinton and Tamaqua.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">More information is available at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rbmnrr-passenger.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:the R&amp;N passenger website;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">the R&amp;N passenger website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8211; To report news or errors, contact <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/lifestyle\/articles\/mailto:trainsnewswire@firecrown.com\" data-ylk=\"slk:trainsnewswire@firecrown.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">trainsnewswire@firecrown.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT CLINTON, Pa. &#8211; The Reading &amp; Northern has announced its 2026 schedule of mainline excursions to Jim&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[52731,539,2485,736,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-118187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-jim-thorpe","tag-pa","tag-pittston","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}