More than 100 passengers took part in an eight-hour steam-train tour Monday, taking them through two historic tunnels in eastern Schuylkill County.

Reading, Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad's No. 425 steam engine carried tourists aboard two passenger cars from Port Clinton through Tamaqua and into Mahanoy City.The route travels through the Tamaqua and Mahanoy tunnels. The Mahanoy tunnel was completed in 1862 and is 3,500 feet long. The Tamaqua tunnel, built around 1854, is 926 feet long. Both were constructed to transport anthracite coal.Afterward, the Labor Day excursion also visited the Hometown High Bridge.The railroad offered 100 seats by reservation at $200 per seat, which sold out.An option was provided to allow guests to ride in the train cab for $400. It's unknown how many took advantage of that opportunity.The popular 425 steam engine was built for the Gulf, Mobile and Northern by the Baldwin Locomotive Works of Eddystone, Pennsylvania, in 1928, as the first of two Pacifics ordered. The engine later became Gulf, Mobile and Ohio 580. It was retired in 1950.The train stopped briefly in Tamaqua. It also stopped on the Main Street bridge in Mahanoy City, where local fire companies supplied water to the steamer.