Conrail RS11 7652, a relative newcomer to the Bethlehem Engine Terminal, stands with two long-term veterans. SW900m 8650 has been a regular since the Lehigh Valley took over the Jersey Central’s... (more)

Reading Lines Alco C-630 no.5306(3000hp). Date Built 6/66-10/67 Numbered 5300-5311.

In the early 1970s, the Jersey Central leased ten ex-Wabash F7s from the Norfolk & Western to help with a perennial power shortage. N&W 3697 was awaiting its next assignment outside the CNJ/RDG ro... (more)

Jersey Central 2505, one of the railroad's dozen SD35s, posed at the Bethlehem, PA, engine terminal shared by the CNJ and Reading. The dust probably came from a recent assignment on one of the ra... (more)

The dismal fourth day of Conrail finds a business-as-usual scene at Bethlehem. It’s not that way everywhere, as the Lehigh Valley road power is gone, and there’s a big presence of the despised... (more)

The early years of Conrail saw many leased units from other roads on the property. Here a Bangor& Aroostook GP7 pauses with an ex-Lehigh Valley “hammerhead” RS3 at the Bethlehem roundhouse.

A warm August morning finds Reading SW1500 2761 on one ot the turntable tracks of Conrail’s Bethlehem engine terminal.

Reading GP39-2 3410, at the Lehigh Valley engine terminal in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, waits for the call to go west.

”EROUTE FOR OVERHAUL ALTOONA BACK SHOP”(sic)

Conrail’s Mechanical Department in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, wanted to make sure this SW8 made it to Altoona without being comman... (more)

Philadelphia, Bethlehem & New England NW2 24 drills a cut of cars between the two yard towers in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The Bethlehem Steel switching road barely made it beyond Bethlehem’s bor... (more)

Bethlehem Engine Terminal hosted its share of six-axle Alco Centuries in the pre-Conrail era. Besides the Lehigh Valley’s fleet of C628’s, which were resident power, Reading C630’s were also... (more)

After the demise of the 178-mile Lehigh & New England Railroad in 1961, all except two segments of its trackage were torn up. The remaining segments, a segment from Tamaqua, Pennsylvania, to the r... (more)

NS 1070 arrives in Bethlehem, Pa passing under the Hill to Hill Bridge over Lehigh River.

The Cement Secondary local returns south to Allentown, PA after letting the GP38-2 duo sit in Uhlers yard overnight. Now heading back, they have some snow to clear off of the rails from the overni... (more)

Empty coal hoppers from Bethlehem Steel begin their journey back to the mines. The early Conrail motive power consist includes an Erie-Lackawanna SD45, a Penn Central GP30, and a Reading C424.