One of the most meaningful aspects of the railfan hobby to me is the shared love of trains with my father. My father brought me on railfan trips from an early age, and I started taking print pict... (more)

Lehigh Valley 518 is still in the original Cornell red color scheme as the A-B-B-A set of F3 units backs up at Lehighton late on a May afternoon.

A late date to find an F unit on the LV; one of two left along with the 572

My first shot of the Lehigh Valley -- I was heading from Ithaca to Sayre and caught this westbound just south of Van Etten Junction and chased north to Watkins Glen (a very fast chase!).

The last day before becoming a fallen-flag, the Lehigh Valley terminal at Sayre was the object of a last-minute attempt by the photographer to capture pure LV before the startup of Conrail, some 3... (more)

All first-generation diesel locomotive conssit

The sand is running out of the hourglass for the Lehigh Valley at this point...but it still looks great here!

Lehigh Valley Baldwin RS-12 working at Sayre, PA || June 1974

Picking up a couple rolls of Kodachrome II K25 on the fly, and with a borrowed camera, the photographer made a side trip from a funeral back home in N.J. to capture the last day of the LV and EL i... (more)

The photographer was back home in NJ for a funeral when he decided to make a side trip to photograph the last day of the LV and EL in eastern PA/NY before becoming fallen flags and part of Conrail... (more)

Conrail is so new that they haven't even had time to screw up a really nice paint job yet. Sometime folks I just get depressed and think we ought to say the heck with it, merge everthing into one... (more)

View taken from an old footbridge that passed directly over the LV engine terminal. It was old, shaky and on a nice sunny day, might have been near capacity when railfans were in town.

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.