The crew of Conrail local WJAL-19 has drawn a C36-7 as their power on a cold December day. Here they switch cars at Lehighton before heading eastbound.

Conrail local WJAL-19, which worked between Allentown, and Packerton, Pennsylvania, is poised to return to Allentown in the late afternoon light. To the right is the shell of the Lehigh Valley’s... (more)

With a backdrop of the landmark one-time Eastern Orthodox church, WJAL-19’s power waits on the Chestnut Ridge interchange while the crew gets lunch at a nearby sandwich shop.

Jersey Central’s HX tower in Palmerton, Pennsylvania has long been abandoned, and the graffiti artists have started to make their claim to its brick walls. HX controlled Hazard interlocking, whi... (more)

A decade and a couple of months after I shot Lehigh Valley train AM-1 passing the New Jersey Zinc west plant in Palmerton, PA (see photo 537880), I returned to capture Conrail train WJAL-19 making... (more)