Westbound Conrail tonnage enters the eastern end of the former Reading East Penn branch at East Penn Junction, Pennsylvania. Several remnants of the Reading days are still evident in this 1984 sce... (more)

A Penn Central GP35/GP38-2 duo leads a piggyback train west out of Allentown Yard at East Penn Junction. The intermodal traffic will continue to go through the yard until the weed-grown track in t... (more)

Nickel Plate 765 leads one of the excursions that was part of the ill-fated 1988 NRHS convention through East Penn Junction, Pennsylvania. This trip went from Bound Brook, New Jersey through Phil... (more)

Six months after they rolled out of Erie, two Conrail C40-8W’s lead a westbound train out of Allentown at East Penn Junction, PA.

Conrail train ALSR (Allentown, PA – Southern Railway) departs Allentown on a beautiful March day. The cranes in the background are part of a project to eliminate the Basin Street crossing on the... (more)

A Conrail caboose hop rolls through East Penn Junction, Pennsylvania on a May afternoon. The former Reading yard here is gone, as is the brick tower that once stood close to where I am standing. N... (more)

On a rainy May afternoon, a Delaware & Hudson Potomac Yard train pulls through East Penn Junction, Pennsylvania as it departs Allentown yard. Waiting to get clearance to enter the yard is a nine c... (more)

A westbound train from Reading arrives at East Penn Junction, Pennsylvania on Conrail’s first birthday.

Early CSX paint schemes included variants that were not widely propagated. Here, a C&O 100-ton hopper has retained its reporting marks, and the CSX logo includes the word, “Transportation”. Th... (more)

Eighteen years after the Chicago Great Western became part of the Chicago & North Western, this cushion-underframe plug-door bow car was still flying CGW colors.

Unusual Visitor

If you spent enough time watching trains in the Allentown, Pennsylvania area, you would see freight cars from almost every railroad in the US and Canada. This is th... (more)

Out of the Hole

A former Erie-Lackawanna SDP45 leads a dimensional special out of the “Hole” at East Penn Junction. The recently rehabilitated connection from the Lehigh Valley... (more)

Jersey bound, a Conrail TV train traverses the junction from the East Penn line to the former Lehigh Valley main line at East Penn Junction. In the background are the former Reading bridge over th... (more)