The Northampton & Bath Railroad was an eight-mile line in eastern Pennsylvania that connected its two namesake boroughs. Owned by the Universal Atlas Cement Company, a division of US Steel, its two principal customers were the parent company cement mill in Northampton, and the Keystone Portland Cement mill in Bath. Here a string of N&B freight cars rest alongside the scale house in Northampton. While the covered hopper was built specifically for the bulk transport of cement, all of those box cars also carried cement, although packaged in 100-lb. bags.
