Conrail’s Saucon Drill is working in a sea of Bethlehem Steel coke hoppers in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The second unit is one of thirteen ex-New York Central GP20’s on the roster making an unu... (more)

For a time in 1979, several Delaware & Hudson GP39-2’s showed up in Conrail service. A few Conrail B23-7’s were spotted on D&H trains, so I believe that these were loans for evaluation, especi... (more)

One of four GP38AC's inherited by Conrail from the Lehigh Valley on 4/1/1976

NS 294 passes through Bethlehem as the sun sets on a November day. It will work the River Yard before resuming its trip to Croxton.

A particularly filthy Delaware & Hudson U33C idles on the service track at Lehigh Valley’s engine terminal in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The big GE was part of a U33C/C628/U30C/C628 lash up.

The now abolished 32A follows the Lehigh River out of Bethlehem as it makes its way to Croxton Yard in New Jersey.

NS H76 crosses the connector bridge between the former Reading Company Allentown Yard and the beginning of the former Lehigh Valley mainline

Conrail’s Only Baldwin

Although the Penn Central and the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines both rostered Baldwin locomotives, It is not generally thought that any of them were ... (more)

After the Conrail consolidation, Lehigh Valley’s EMD switchers generally stayed in along the ex-LV lines until they were retired. Five months into Conrail, five dynamic brake equipped SW8’s pa... (more)

Four Lehigh Valley Alcos (C420/RS11/C420/RS11) pass near Bethlehem Engine Terminal as it moves from Steel Tower to Allentown Yard. Soon they will be headed west with train AM-1 (Allentown – Mech... (more)

On a warm June morning, a Lehigh Valley RS11 and RS3 are in the servicing area at Bethlehem Engine Terminal. Both units are secondhand from Pennsylvania/Penn Central, that owned a controlling inte... (more)

After the hostler cleared the turntable at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania with a pair of Lehigh Valley RS11’s , he opened the th... (more)

A pair of Lehigh Valley RS11’s leaves the turntable at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

A shop worker at Conrail’s Bethlehem, Pennsylvania roundhouse fires up Lehigh Valley RS11 7640 after performing some work on a rainy September day. LV’s RS11’s were always good for a smoke s... (more)