Rutherford, PA: Reading Coal Tower, Roundhouse and Railyard

Tower: (Satellite)

Railyard: (Satellite, the railyard is now an intermodal yard.)

Roundhouse: (Satellite)

Tim Shanahan updated
Bill Rogerson  : Conrail's (Ex Reading) coaling facility at Rutherford Yard, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania - Summer 1980

Robert Wanner posted
Reading Company, Rutherford, Pa. service area occupied by a K Class steam locomotive, two short, weighted snow plows and a snow flanger, all in the ready. Must be a cold weather month. Huge coaling facility with at least 6 service ports. Reading Company photo or unknown.
Dennis DeBruler shared
I think this might be the largest coaling tower that I have seen. The engine servicing facility is now part of an intermodal yard, https://maps.app.goo.gl/3MQ5cbQCGDQfFR6W7. A comment on another share says that the gantry crane is part of the ash pit operation.

 

Bill Rettberg Jr. posted
Stored power using the engine facility at the former Reading Rutherford yard near Harrisburg.

ES&D Railroad - HO Scale posted
Vary rare colorized photo taken from a slide owned by the ES&D Railroad-Ho Scale of the Reading Railroad Rutherford roundhouse in the early 1960's.

ES&D Railroad - HO Scale posted
Hagley digital archive photo of the Reading Railroads Rutherford yard. Roundhouse, power house, machine shop, coaling tower, and storage builds

1947 Harrisburg East Quad @ 24,000

1956/68 Harrisburg Quad @ 62,500

I think the coaling tower is the white vertical rectangle near the lower-left corner. In addition to the roundhouse, there is another turntable a little further east.

Oct 20, 1959 @ 60,000; ARB593500600477

 

Apr 2, 1968 @ 26,000; AR1VBYA00010195

Digitally Zoomed

Once again, it is too hard to remove the pit foundations so we can see part of the arc of the roundhouse.

Satellite

Bill Rettberg Jr. posted
looking at Rutherford yard's east hump.

Ron Martin: As seen from the 63rd Street Bridge. Ahhhh, yes... Spent many an hour there dreaming about my future career.

ES&D Railroad - HO Scale posted
The last expansion plans for the Reading Railroads Rutherford yard roundhouse. Original blueprint found at the Reading Technical and Historical Society

Today's view: 

Street View, Oct 2023

When I dropped a pin for the tower's location, Google Maps showed this photo. It sure looks like it is a depot. But I could not find its location on a satellite map.

I.E. Xam, Apr 2012