Runnin’ Late in ’88!

The final excursion of the 1988 NRHS convention was planned to be a 420-mile round trip from Bound Brook, New Jersey to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The air c... (more)

Allentown to Reading, Pa turn job

Conrail's track geometry train rolls through Pennsylvania Dutch farm country at Lyons, Pennsylvania. Heading west on the former Reading East Penn branch, the train is halfway between Allentown and... (more)

A Conrail freight is westbound through the small community of Lyons, Pa., on the former Reading mainline. Two years later Lyons would be struck by an F3 tornado.

Ethanol empties, led by an SD70M, return west for another load, seen passing through the small village of Lyons, just east of Reading, PA, on a beautiful summer evening.

NS with a rebuild leader on "All day 11J" autoracks west on 1 through Lyons.

Traversing the rolling farm country between Reading and Allentown is NS train 18N, bound for Newark, New Jersey.

Morning in Lyons PA.

NS 261 came through Lyons just at the right time, mere seconds before shadows covered the rails. The train, along with 25M who is following on his blocks, will pause at Blandon to allow 20W to pas... (more)

Westbound autorack train 11J crawls by on track one, seen from across the fields at Lyons on a windy fall afternoon.

Operator Largent has just hooped up a NORAC Form D to the Extra CN 5742 East, in the process of crossing back to Track 2 after having run around the Sperry car SRS 145 in the background. During t... (more)

A C40-9W leads two UP units on the Croxton-Atlanta UPS train.