Train is westbound. I loved the Waverly/Sayre area, great action with EL and LV crossing and semaphores on the EL made great photo props.
SD35s are eastbound meeting a westbound about to enter Allentown Yard; note the condition of the track.
A late date to find an F unit on the LV; one of two left along with the 572
Ex-B&O; you can see where the capital dome has been painted out on the nose. At least it was a nice early fall day for this shot.
Heading for Hagerstown. The Reading U30Cs were a handsome engine.
Heading for Hagerstown with mixed Reading and WM power. Usually the power set was pure for one or the other railroad.
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!).
In the pre-EPA days railfanning on summer days in central NJ was a challenge -- white hot sky, heat and pollution, and motley CNJ power like this set of Fs of B&O and N&W lineage. Lead unit is ex... (more)
CNJ SD40s were ex-B&O and about as plain as an engine can be. Nice to see the orders being hooped up.
Another view at the junction of the High Bridge branch and main line.
About to head up branch to interchange with the Susquehanna at Green Pond Junction
Units were on lease to CNJ in 1970; train is eastbound switching at the Bound Brook station
Units were on lease to CNJ in 1970; train is westbound freight for Allentown passing through station at Bound Brook.
Units were on lease to CNJ in 1970; the 3717 is westbound meeting eastbound freight with SD40. It was almost a 3-way meet, as an eastbound RDC car was approaching on the yellow signal at left of ... (more)
