The 130 job switches out plastic hoppers at Iron Hill Yard in Bethlehem.

This MP15DC was built new for the Bethlehem Steel's Cambria & Indiana coal hauling railroad in western PA in 1975. 50 years later, it has gone through time with the South Buffalo and Philadelphia,... (more)

Snow falls as LVRB 130 works Iron Hill Yard with three switchers.

Phoenix Rail's Lehigh Valley Rail Management 130 crew works the former Philadelphia, Bethlehem & New England Iron Hill Yard with one of two remaining active PBNE painted units leading two ex-CSX S... (more)

Phoenix Rail recently took over LVRM in Bethlehem and Johnstown, PA. They've wasted no time repainting what motive power remains, leaving PB&NE 20 the only surviving engine in former Bethlehem col... (more)

OOPS! A PBNE crew seems to have run into some problems as shown in this image from April 1975! Unlike today's derailment cleanup crews with large fleets of equipment, McHugh Brothers was called in... (more)

It's the end of the line for a trio of switchers that spent almost 75 years in Bethlehem, PA, mostly working the Bethlehem Steel plant. They were part of a large group of switchers that had been s... (more)

Lehigh Valley Management recently scrapped most of the Bethlehem Steel era switchers that were stored in their yard for over 20 years. A 1957 built SW1200 and 1951 built SW9 appear to be all that'... (more)

PBNE 43 sits among other power at Bethlehem Steel's engine house in Bethlehem, PA. Tim Howeter photograph, collection of Colin Kund.

Three ex-PBNE and one former CR switchers live out their remaining days on the Lehigh Valley Rail Management's deadline in south Bethlehem.

Rows of retired PBNE swichers rust away in Saucon Yard. The Philadelphia Bethlehem & New England Railroad was the wholly owned shortline railroad of Bethlehem Steel. It operated in and around the ... (more)

A Philadelphia, Bethlehem & New England NW2 works a yard job in Bethlehem, PA, back when Bethlehem Steel was a thriving business and the PB&NE was a busy switching railroad.

PB&NE No.35 has a cut of slag cars in a scene of industrial America. Bethlehem was, of course, a huge generator of inbound and outbound rail traffic. Mills once proliferated in the eastern Pennsyl... (more)

A pair of PBNE SW900Ms approach the Lynn Avenue bridge in Bethlehem. Bethlehem Steel would continue operations at the adjacent facility for approximately three years after the date of this photo.... (more)

Philadelphia, Bethlehem, and New England SW7 44 works a cut of gondolas at the yard in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.