Conrail train APB-1 is Allentown bound at Mount Bethel, Pennsylvania. This is one of the few locations that I photographed that appears to be more open today than it was then.
"Passing the Barn"
The horses don't seem to pay any attention, to NS H76, as it passes their barn on its way back to Allentown.
After making its pickup at Slateford Junction, NS H76 heads back to Allentown.
A pair of Norfolk Southern SD40E's are lugging about 150 empty coal hoppers up the steep grade through Mt. Bethel, PA, on the NS Portland Secondary.
Even with 5 locomotives H76 struggles to crest the grade between Portland and Mount Bethel on snow coated rails as they pass the horse farm at Railroad Ave.
A winter storm rolls east into the Delaware River Valley as H76 heads back to Allentown after interchanging with the D-L. NS 5216 leads the train over a snow covered Sand Pit Rd. past a great "rai... (more)
H76 passes a small creek between Five Points and Mount Bethel, PA on its way to Slateford junction on the first day of November.
When good decision making and lots of luck are put together. Thoroughbreds meet as the NS local passes a local horse farm on its way north to Martins Creek. It's taken 3 years and 3 locals (wrong ... (more)
