"Seven hundred tons of metal a day..." The pour. With only a matter of weeks left before the blast furnaces at Bethlehem Steel would fall silent and cold, I was fortunate enough to see this monume... (more)

"These mills they built the tanks and bombs, That won this country's wars..." To an outsider such as myself, Bethlehem Steel was truly incomprehensible in its scale and complexity. An aging hulk, ... (more)

"A job that'd suit the devil as well..." Man-made lava on the slag dump. With only a matter of weeks left before the blast furnaces at Bethlehem Steel would fall silent and cold, I was fortunat... (more)

April Showers...: Steady rain falls while a rather short 22V passes light power off the inbound Roadrailer. The crew can be seen disembarking and it appears their ride is waiting for them... (more)

Two of the Lehigh Valley's newer Alco RS-11 units are teamed with EMD F units on a westbound freight at Bethlehem.

Lehigh Valley PA-1 units have been pressed into freight service after the demise of most of the railroad's passenger service. The Lehigh Valley discontinued all passenger trains early the followin... (more)

Lehigh Valley RS-2 214 has just a double door NYC box car and caboose in tow in front of the Bethlehem station.

Lehigh Valley GP18 304 leads a mixed consist of Alco RS-11, Alco and EMD F units on a westbound freight at Bethlehem, Pa..

SD70M-2 leads NS unit trash train 64J eastbound at JU through this truss bridge onto the Lehigh Line.

Horsehead scheme rebuilt GP38-2 leads NS local H76 eastbound on the Lehigh Line.

An extra section of roadrailer 262 pulls into the river yard with a nice set of EMD units for power. Foreign power on this train is a rare occurrence, made even rarer with no GE's in the consist.... (more)

Power from the inbound Roadrailer idles in the River Yard next to a seemingly overpowered 19G on the Layoff Track. With a recrew aboard, 19G will soon cross the Lehigh River into Allentown Yard.

Reading C630 5302 in the shop area at Bethlehem, PA in the summer of 1974.

Northbound NS H75 trundles under the massive Broad Street Bridge, as it parallels the Monocacy Creek.

An autorack train waits at the signal in south Bethlehem on a cold January day. The looming blast furnaces of Bethlehem Steel rust away in the background.