Delaware & Hudson train OILC (Oak Island, NJ – Lacolle, QC) passes through Lehigh Gap, Pennsylvania. The lone C420 has an easy time with the short intermodal consist. Three railroads once passed... (more)

Skirting the partially frozen Lehigh River, Delaware & Hudson train OILC (Oak Island, NJ – Lacolle, QC) approaches Lehigh Gap, Pennsylvania.

Delaware and Hudson trains in the late 1980’s promised a wide variety of power in a rainbow of colors. Once in a while, a not-so-colorful lash up like this CSX semi-stealth GP40-2/GP40 pair with... (more)

Reflected in the relatively still waters of the Lehigh River, Conrail train OICG (Oak Island – Corning) rolls through the Lehigh Gap, which once hosted three mainline railroads. The train is on ... (more)

Westbound empty hoppers approach Lehigh Gap in the last light of a March day. The history of the residence shown is unknown, but it is unusual that someone managed to place a structure on the narr... (more)

An Allentown-bound Delaware & Hudson train rolls through the Lehigh Gap on an August morning. Two ex-Reading GP39-2’s bracket two GP39-2’s bought new from EMD. There’s also an ex-Reading wid... (more)

Conrail train ALCG (Allentown – Corning) passes an area of the Lehigh River that is pooled due to a dam that was built for the Lehigh Canal. The dam meets the near side of the river near the cur... (more)

An empty hopper train rolls west through Lehigh Gap, Pennsylvania on the second day of spring, 1986. Judging by the consist, this was a Hazleton local returning to the anthracite fields.

One of two Delaware & Hudson bicentennial units brings an eastbound train through the unmistakable profile of the Lehigh Gap. When the highway through the gap was widened to be four lanes in 1960,... (more)

Conrail symbol CGAL (Corning - Allentown) enters the Lehigh Gap as it is on the last leg of its journey to Allentown, travelling here on the former Jersey Central main line. There's quite a bit of... (more)

Conrail train OIGC (Oak Island - Corning) parallels the Lehigh River as it travels westbound through the Lehigh Gap on former Lehigh and Susquehanna/Jersey Central rails. We are standing on the we... (more)

13T rolls through the Lehigh Gap in great evening light. The train is using the former Central Railroad of New Jersey line. The old Lehigh Valley main is in the foreground on the near side of the ... (more)

NS 40-T led by CN 5777 and CP 5874 passes signals 1061 and 1062 as it rolls through Lehigh Gap. The former L&NE roadbed which was cut into the hillside is visible above and to the right of the l... (more)