"You're not from around here are you?" With a seemingly endless array of loco models and colors flowing through the area, it was still a unique surprise to have a high-hood GP30 lead a D... (more)
A decade and a couple of months after I shot Lehigh Valley train AM-1 passing the New Jersey Zinc west plant in Palmerton, PA (see photo 537880), I returned to capture Conrail train WJAL-19 making... (more)
Train AM-1, with 74 cars and interleaved C420's and RS11's, passes the New Jersey Zinc Company's west plant in Palmerton. The zinc company was by far the largest employer in Palmerton, but the by-... (more)
Hauling Baltimore-bound sulfuric acid, CP train 700 turns south toward the Lehigh Gap. We're standing on the abandoned bridge of the Chestnut Ridge Railway's line to the former west plant of the N... (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.
With a Providence & Worcester geep trailing, a daylight 13T passes through the Lehigh Gap just south of Palmerton.
Southern style, in Pennsylvania. Two NS high-hood GP38-2's are in charge of today's H66 local, heading back to Allentown with 26 cars.
Northbound Fall Foilage Trip to Jim Thorpe Pa Note Engine ExRDG RR
NS local H-78 power on connection track from Palmerton yard on NS Lehigh Line to Horsehead Inds.(former NJ Zinc) east plant.
NS local H-78 switches its train at Palmerton Yard. Few tracks remain in what was once CNJ's Hazard Yard.
H66 returns from Lehighton with catfish, rather than the more typical 4-axle power. Photo taken from east abutment to the old L&NE bridge spanning the river gap.
Eastbound passing through Lehigh Gap
