Conrail C40-8Ws 6167 and 6166 appear to be making their first trip east after being delivered by GE. Both units show as being built in the prior month, February 1993. The duo is assisted by olde... (more)

Conrail WPAL-12, the East Penn Drill, heads west across the Lehigh River as a "caboose hop". Trailing the single GP38-2 is a Conrail N-8B caboose. This car was rebuilt by Penn Central fro... (more)

Conrail CGAL has nearly completed its run from Corning, NY while approaching the interlocking at CP HAM. The train is overtaking CP/D&H train 556 which is led by an NS SD60/C39-8 duo.

A westbound Reading freight behind a GP35 and a Century 630 prepares to leave the RDG/CNJ yard at Allentown, PA, on a misty spring day. This train was bound for the railroad's namesake city of Rea... (more)

Southbound Delaware & Hudson tonnage approaches Allentown yard. The train is about to curve under the Hamilton Street bridge in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

An SW1500/GP38/SW1500 power consist pulls the “Hazleton man” west toward the anthracite mines around Hazleton, Pennsylvania. This train, seen leaving Allentown, was predominately made of emp... (more)

Passenger Service to Allentown, Pennsylvania?

A special move of a train of George Hart’s ex-reading passenger cars arrives in the former CNJ yard in Allentown, Pennsylvania. I d... (more)

A pair of Jersey Central RS-3s working a switch job at the big CNJ/RDG yard in Allentown, PA, attach themselves to the rear of a freight. I don't remember at this point whether they were putting i... (more)

A Juniata-rebuilt NS SD70ACu leads NS 36Q through Allentown Yard on a cold February morning, zig-zagging past the Allentown humpyard.

”Better By A Dam Site”

Southwestern Georgia’s Chattahoochee Industrial Railroad survived part of its early (1960’s) existence by transporting materials for the construction... (more)

An eastbound Conrail train, most likely CGAL (Corning – Allentown)in about to duck under the Hamilton Street overpass in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Ahead is the last tangent before entering Allent... (more)

Which of These Does Not Go With the Others?

At first glance, it appears that Conrail EMD’s are leading on all lashups waiting to go west from Allentown Yard. On closer inspection... (more)

Late in the day, a Delaware & Hudson set of power backs to its train in the west end of Allentown yard. There are two lightning stripe U23B’s in the consist, but the Lehigh Valley heritage is in... (more)

A Delaware & Hudson Potomac Yard train prepares to head west from Allentown yard on the East Penn line. Within a little over a year, many elements of this scene will disappear as part of Conrail�... (more)

A former B&O GP40 leads an interesting mix of units on D&H 556X as the train departs Allentown Yard. 556X was one of two 556 trains to operate through Allentown on this day. D&H 556 entered Alle... (more)