Conrail in Cornell Red – Almost eight months after the northeastern railroad scene has undergone its most dramatic transformation, many of the local activities continue on as usual. Here Lehigh ... (more)

Forty years ago, it was common knowledge that the Lehigh Valley Railroad would cease to exist on the coming April 1. I made a commitment to capture as much of the Lehigh Valley as I could in the f... (more)

The two hottest trains on the Lehigh Valley were the intermodal Apollo and manifest Mercury, both running between Oak Island and Buffalo with no yard work along the way. If they were on time, bot... (more)

A Lehigh Valley westbound changes crews at Packerton Yard.

Three U23Bs lead a southbound on the LV mainline at the junction with the Ithaca Branch The track underneath the locomotives and the Ithaca Branch is still used by the Norfolk Southern today, but... (more)

An eastbound led by three Alco C628s pauses at the west end telephone shanty before entering Coxton Yard.

The late Roger Puta's slide was scanned and posted by Marty Bernard.

Three-quarters of the Lehigh Valley's GP38AC roster lead eastbound train LV-4 across the Delaware River and into Phillipsburg. Today's consist has 36 cars, including covered hoppers carrying cemen... (more)

LV 212 idles in Bethlehem engine terminal. This tired unit came to the LV from the Penn Central in 1972 as a trade for the original 212, an even more tired RS2. The PC, which controlled the LV, us... (more)

Palmerton was a gritty town in the heyday of the New Jersey Zinc Company. Train AS-1 (Allentown - Sayre) passes the west plant, which is almost completely veiled in its own pollution.

1950 built S-12 #243 idles at the west end of Coxton Yard.

EMD NW2 #183 and Alco RS-11 #400 idle on a hazy July afternoon. Packerton Yards, Lehighton, Pennsylvania.

An unexpected quintet of LV SW8s rolls downgrade on the weed-grown LV Mountain Cut Off toward Laurel Run and Coxton. The oversize load visible beyond the SW8s was probably too large for Jersey Cen... (more)

Where else can you find an SW900 with one of the earliest operating Alco S1's? Taken during a Dynamo Productions photo charter.

Lehigh Valley's flagship passenger train The Black Diamond ran between New York City and Buffalo until 1959, when the LV's passenger service was reduced to (2) mainline trains a day. The John Wi... (more)