A warm August morning finds Reading SW1500 2761 on one ot the turntable tracks of Conrail’s Bethlehem engine terminal.

Reading GP39-2 3410, at the Lehigh Valley engine terminal in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, waits for the call to go west.

”EROUTE FOR OVERHAUL ALTOONA BACK SHOP”(sic)

Conrail’s Mechanical Department in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, wanted to make sure this SW8 made it to Altoona without being comman... (more)

Philadelphia, Bethlehem & New England NW2 24 drills a cut of cars between the two yard towers in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The Bethlehem Steel switching road barely made it beyond Bethlehem’s bor... (more)

Bethlehem Engine Terminal hosted its share of six-axle Alco Centuries in the pre-Conrail era. Besides the Lehigh Valley’s fleet of C628’s, which were resident power, Reading C630’s were also... (more)

After the demise of the 178-mile Lehigh & New England Railroad in 1961, all except two segments of its trackage were torn up. The remaining segments, a segment from Tamaqua, Pennsylvania, to the r... (more)

NS 1070 arrives in Bethlehem, Pa passing under the Hill to Hill Bridge over Lehigh River.

The Cement Secondary local returns south to Allentown, PA after letting the GP38-2 duo sit in Uhlers yard overnight. Now heading back, they have some snow to clear off of the rails from the overni... (more)

Empty coal hoppers from Bethlehem Steel begin their journey back to the mines. The early Conrail motive power consist includes an Erie-Lackawanna SD45, a Penn Central GP30, and a Reading C424.

The tenth day of Conrail’s existence finds a meet near JU tower in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. A 30-car local train in the charge of two Lehigh Valley RS11’s waits to proceed east, while a 58-car... (more)

Austere is the word to describe Conrail’s minimalist effort to patch this ex-Lehigh Valley SW1. All LV markings have been painted over, but there is no evidence that this is a Conrail engine any... (more)

Saturday, October 25, 1975 dawned as miserably as any autumn day could. Rain came in waves, with frequent downpours. Nonetheless, I was going out to take photos, because a double-headed steam excu... (more)

One of the Reading's twelve burly Century 630s awaits its next assignment at the Bethlehem, PA, engine terminal that the railroad shared with the CNJ.

The engineer of the American Freedom Train looks back for hand signals as he switches the train for display in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The 4-8-4 is near JU tower, and the train is being sp... (more)

The lineup on the ready track in Bethlehem includes a Paducah GP10 and a newly rebuilt MT4 slug, both on their way to assignments in North Jersey. The MT4 was previously Penn Central RS11 7653, a... (more)