The Delaware & Hudson’s roster prior to Conrail day (April 1, 1976) was a homogenous, all lightning stripe paint schemed group of locomotives. That changed with the addition of former Reading GP... (more)

An ex-Lehigh Valley SW8 switches the west end of Allentown Yard. This perspective best illustrates the dynamic brake option unique to eighteen of the LV’s SW8’s. The primary need for dynamics ... (more)

A westbound Conrail mixed freight train crosses the Lehigh River at Allentown, Pennsylvania. Ahead is East Penn Junction, where the Reading once had a small yard, and the former Reading East Penn ... (more)

During the brief period that the Susquehanna was the court-appointed operator of the Delaware & Hudson, D&H train PYRP (Potomac Yard – Rouses Point) crosses the Lehigh River to enter the yard at... (more)

An eastbound Conrail train from Reading and points beyond crosses the Lehigh River to enter the yard at Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Susquehanna F45 3636 leads a Delaware & Hudson train from Philadelphia into the yard in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Almost as interesting is the trailing GP38 with a CSX number and C&O reporting mark... (more)

What I’m guessing is a three-phase circuit breaker is being delivered to a utility customer on an Illinois Central Gulf flat in this November, 1988 view at Allentown, Pennsylvania.

So, you like NS SD40-2’s?

Two former N&W low-hood SD40-2’s, interleaved with two high-hood SD40-2’s, one each of N&W and Southern Railway heritage, wait in Conrail’s Allent... (more)

An eclectic mix of Conrail power prepares to leave Allentown yard with a westbound train. The lashup includes a C36-7, an SD50, a U36B originally built for Auto Train, an SD38, and an MT6 slug. Th... (more)

Allentown Triple X

Railfans in the Allentown, Pennsylvania area got a nice treat in July 1979, when three relatively scarce Santa Fe GP40X’s spent a few days in eastern Pennsylva... (more)

True Colors

One of two Lehigh Valley C420’s to retain its 1964 as-delivered “yellow jacket” paint scheme, now-D&H 413 leads a train west (D&H north) from Allentown, Pennsylv... (more)

Making its exit from Allentown yard, a 104-car westbound Conrail manifest passes the building that once housed the Allentown Plant of the W. T. Hahn Motor Truck Company. In 1929, Hahn merged with ... (more)

Four RS11’s, still dressed in the Lehigh Valley’s Cornell Red, but tattooed with Conrail monograms, lead a westbound train out of Allentown yard on the former CNJ main line. The Lehigh Valley ... (more)

Leasers…add Life!

Paraphrasing the familiar mid-‘70’s Coca-Cola advertising slogan from the billboard in the photo, one of the ways that the drab monotony of the ex-PC power... (more)