A Lehigh Valley Century 628 appropriately numbered 628 (and mate 634) heads up a westbound freight that has just departed from the LV yard at Easton, PA, but is now stopped on the mainline due to ... (more)

Lehigh Valley GP-38-2 waits on the engine track at Oak Island.

Recent tree and brush clearing work has made possible this aerial view of the abandoned roundhouse at the Lehigh Valley's former Manchester Yard. The yard was one of the largest classification yar... (more)

Six months into Conrail, former Lehigh Valley RS2 214 had thus far escaped the paint-patchers, although it was a few miles from home rails as it worked the former CNJ Elizabethport yard in Elizabe... (more)

Lehigh Valley Railroad RDC-1 No. 40, one of only two RDC-1's that the railroad owned, was built in 1951 by the Budd Company and is preserved at the RRMofPA. The rail diesel car, after serving the... (more)

An SW8 in one of the Lehigh Valley’s later paint schemes works the west end of the yard in Allentown Pennsylvania. Today, I would never expect to see a piggyback car in a classification yard, bu... (more)

One of the Lehigh Valley’s dynamic brake-equipped SW8’s idles at the west end of Allentown yard. Those 50’ Vermont Railway boxcars were a common sight in that era.

A member of the head end crew is about to hand off paperwork to the agent as his Lehigh Valley train approaches the station at South Plainfield, NJ, on a summer afternoon with work to do here. Two... (more)

Wearing their original colors of grey, yellow, and road grime, a trio of Lehigh Valley Alco Century 420s prepare to depart the big yard at Lehighton, PA, with a long freight. The LV was not known... (more)

The dismal fourth day of Conrail finds a business-as-usual scene at Bethlehem. It’s not that way everywhere, as the Lehigh Valley road power is gone, and there’s a big presence of the despised... (more)

Eighteen of the Lehigh Valley’s SW8’s were equipped with dynamic brakes. Here one of them has been set off in Lehighton, Pennsylvania. Part of the Lehigh Valley roundhouse can be seen in the d... (more)

Still in its as-delivered 1950 paint scheme, Lehigh Valley SW8 254 works near R Tower in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

A new landmark is taking shape in lower Manhattan as Lehigh Valley SW8 274 switches a carfloat at the railroad's Jersey City float bridge, located on what today is a totally redeveloped waterfront... (more)

As the new World Trade Center rises in the background, a Lehigh Valley tug that's mostly hidden behind the second car eases a loaded carfloat into the railroad's Jersey City float bridge. Rail mar... (more)

A pair of "Lehigh Valley" F7s pose at the Whippany Railway Museum. The pair are ex-Chicago & North Western and were put into Cornell Red for display by the United Railroad Historical Soc... (more)