High above the Delaware River, Lehigh Valley train NE-1, with 99 cars, makes its exit from New Jersey.

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.

LV #637 leads a C628 trio on an eastbound at the north (RR west) end of Coxton Yard in Duryea, Pennsylvania. All those boxcars were probably picked up at the P&G paper mill in Mehoopany. Ekta... (more)

The current Allentown yard is a much different facility than it was prior to being rebuilt in 1978-9. Today, the main tracks are next to the Lehigh canal, on the opposite side of the yard from thi... (more)

LV eastbound at Bloomsbury NJ. Ektachrome X original.

An Alco helper trio (C420, RS-18, C420) drifts downgrade back to Packerton Yards on a damp March day. Scrappers had nearly finished removing the Jersey Central mainline tracks at left. All Jers... (more)

Meet at West Portal. On a rainy March day, an unusual visitor to the LV waits to enter single track- Pittsburg & Shawmut SW9 #236. View is looking east. Scanned from Ektachrome X.

A relatively uncommon dynamic brake equipped SW8 "pup" switches cars in Easton, PA. The bridge carried the LV Easton & Northern branch over the LV mainline and the Lehigh River. Ekta... (more)

Dwarf semaphore. This protected Lehighton Interlocking, the junction where Jersey Central and LV traffic entered Packerton Yards in Lehighton, PA. The bridge in the distance once carried Jersey Ce... (more)

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.

This switcher is rarely used outside of the yard, so seeing it pull the passenger train during this Dynamo Productions photo charter was a rare treat.

Hidden Ruby. This loco wears the paint scheme of its original owner. It was built for the Lehigh Valley as an NW2 and rebuilt in 1956. Here, we see it switching loaded gondolas of scrap metal d... (more)