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)

Eighteen of the Lehigh Valley’s SW8’s were equipped with dynamic brakes. Here one of them has been set off in Lehighton, Pennsylvania. Part of the Lehigh Valley roundhouse can be seen in the d... (more)

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)