A New Jersey Zinc S2 leads a transfer move from the Company’s West Plant to its East Plant in Palmerton, Pennsylvania.

Maine Central Units make their first appearance on Delaware & Hudson train NE84 at Palmerton, Pennsylvania. The Lehigh Valley area grapevine was alive with the news that the U25B/GP38 combo had go... (more)

This small manually-operated turntable was in regular service on a U.S. common carrier into the 1980’s. The railroad was the Chestnut Ridge Railway, and the turntable provided turning capability... (more)

Conrail local WJAL-19 rolls west under the employee footbridge to the New Jersey Zinc Company’s West Hazard plant in Palmerton, Pennsylvania. Every day for decades, hundreds of workers in the ma... (more)

After spending time on the Chestnut Ridge interchange while the crew had lunch, the power for Conrail local WJAL-19 returns to its train on the former CNJ main line. Former HX Tower to the left wa... (more)

With a backdrop of the landmark one-time Eastern Orthodox church, WJAL-19’s power waits on the Chestnut Ridge interchange while the crew gets lunch at a nearby sandwich shop.

“Hey, when you go over to the east plant, can you take a couple of sheets of plywood along?” The New Jersey Zinc Company rostered a small fleet of Alco switchers to work within and between its... (more)

This is not a photo from a tourist line or a railfan event. This is the Chestnut Ridge Railway track gang’s everyday motorcar. Mack Trucks, Inc., built this model AB railbus in 1922, and it was ... (more)

NS H68 heads south along the Lehigh River.

The 765 races northbound along the Lehigh River between Walnutport and Palmerton.

This CR freight is running on former CNJ trackage in the Lehigh River valley just south of the Lehigh Gap. The lead loco, CR3129, was later acquired by the DRGW, and the New Jersey Zinc plant her... (more)

The Chestnut Ridge Railway served the sprawling New Jersey Zinc plant in Palmerton, Pa. One of its switchers is seen inside the plant on a dreary February day in 1982.

The usual power for Conrail locals on the Lehigh & Susquehanna was a pair of four-axle units. Here an unusual lone SD40-2 brings a local out of the Lehigh Gap and into Palmerton.

Jersey Central’s HX tower in Palmerton, Pennsylvania has long been abandoned, and the graffiti artists have started to make their claim to its brick walls. HX controlled Hazard interlocking, whi... (more)

The Delaware and Hudson was always loyal to on-line customer Alco. The majority of its steam roster was built in Schenectady, and dieselization was accomplished entirely with S2’s, S4’s, RS2�... (more)