Lehighton Bicentennials 2 - After the westbound train that I followed to Lehighton cleared the interlocking where the CNJ and LV mains joined after 1972, the helper set with the EL bicentennial SD... (more)

Lehighton Bicentennials 1 - On a Friday afternoon, I ventured out on the former CNJ main line west of Allentown. I encountered a stopped train near Walnutport, and approached the crew to see why t... (more)

Dwarf semaphore. This protected Lehighton Interlocking, the junction where Jersey Central and LV traffic entered Packerton Yards in Lehighton, PA. The bridge in the distance once carried Jersey Ce... (more)

EMD NW2 #183 and Alco RS-11 #400 idle on a hazy July afternoon. Packerton Yards, Lehighton, Pennsylvania.

An early NS 13T rolls through the NS/R&N Lehighton yard on it's way south to Allentown.

The R&N PILE backs its train into Lehighton Yard for pick up by the NS H67 that will be coming to get the train later that night. The power for tonight's PILE was SD38 2003 and SD40-2 3057.

CP 258 rolls through NS/R&N Lehighton Yard at 11:45 pm on it's way eastbound to Allentown, PA.

Lehigh Valley #601 was the first of the Valley's PA1's built in March 1948. After passenger service ceased in February 1961, it was used in freight service for a while before being sold to paren... (more)

USRA sponsored new power for the LV in the form of GE U23B's as the railroad was bankrupt.

A westbound Jersey Central freight has just crossed the Lehigh Valley trackage and passes the LV roundhouse. The A-B-A set of F3 units are followed by two Alco six-motor road-switchers, all workin... (more)

Lehigh Valley 518 is still in the original Cornell red color scheme as the A-B-B-A set of F3 units backs up at Lehighton late on a May afternoon.

An A-B-B-A set of Lehigh Valley F3 units backs down to pick up a train. The Pennsylvania Railroad had increased its stock ownership of LV by this time as the tuscan red color scheme of 522 illustr... (more)

LV Snowbirds in August are climbing the new connection eastward to the CNJ a couple years after the Joint Use of Facilities Agreement

The Conrail road freight covering the ex Lehigh Valley main (Conrail's Lehigh Line) on this date was CGOI, running between Corning, NY and Oak Island, NJ. In this 11:30 AM view CGOI is rolling thr... (more)