Conrail’s Cement Secondary local picks up a covered hopper from a short siding in Tatamy, Pennsylvania on the former Lehigh Valley Easton & Northern branch. This siding was behind the Farm Burea... (more)

The Book Barn

Conrail’s Cement Secondary local passes an old landmark in Tatamy, Pennsylvania on the former Lehigh Valley Easton & Northern branch. I don’t know its original pu... (more)

Conrail’s Cement Secondary local rides a narrow shelf between the Bushkill Creek and Bushkill Street in Tatamy, Pennsylvania. This is the former Lehigh Valley Easton & Northern branch, which was... (more)

Conrail’s Cement Secondary local backs toward the former Lehigh & New England yard at Stockertown, Pennsylvania. Beside the empty coal hoppers from the Hercules cement mill, there are two covere... (more)

A high-level switchstand and empty telegraph poles reflect some of the Lehigh & New England heritage of its Martins Creek branch at Stockertown, Pennsylvania. A Conrail GP38-2 is working on what h... (more)

Conrail train WJAL-12, the Cement Secondary local, tied down in Stockertown, Pennsylvania the previous night, and a new crew is finishing the work that was left undone. They have separated a GP38-... (more)

Conrail local WJAL-12 is seen on the lead to Hercules Cement in Stockertown, Pennsylvania with a cut of hoppers. The track in the foreground is the former Lehigh and New England Martins Creek bran... (more)

Conrail’s Cement Secondary local, WJAL-12, is seen working in the small former Lehigh & New England yard in Stockertown, Pennsylvania. The tracks to the right lead to the Lehigh Valley’s Easto... (more)

Conrail’s Cement Secondary local, WJAL-12, pulls a cut of empty hoppers from the Hercules Cement mill in Stockertown, Pennsylvania.

Conrail WJAL-12 works at the Hercules Cement Mill in Stockertown, Pennsylvania. When I was a kid, Pennsylvania Route 191’s old alignment (now Hercules Drive) ran right behind the rail loading si... (more)

Conrail train WJAL-12, the Cement Secondary local, rolls into Nazareth, Pennsylvania on beautiful May day.

Conrail’s Cement Secondary local, WJAL-12, switches the former Nazareth Cement Company mill in Nazareth, Pennsylvania. By this time, the facility was owned by French company ESSROC, and is now o... (more)

The mill of Nazareth Cement Company has been a local landmark since 1899. Several corporate ownership changes have occurred, and a plant modernization was performed sometime in the late 1970’'s ... (more)

The power for Conrail’s Cement Secondary local WJAL-12 stands in front of the Essroc cement plant in Nazareth, Pennsylvania.

Conrail’s Cement Secondary local passes through the area known as Dexter, where the Lehigh and New England’s Martins Creek branch crossed the Lackawanna’s Bangor & Portland Secondary. An L&N... (more)