A D&H train crosses the Lehigh River after departing Allentown yard for Oak Island, NJ. The trailing unit is an ex-Conrail U33B.

High & Wide
A massive Air Products heat exchanger is carefully shepherded along the Lehigh Line by a pair of Norfolk Southern Dash 9s. Air Products personnel ride in an appropriately ... (more)

UP 8426, a first generation SD70ACe, leads eastbound Atlanta hotshot 212 through Bethlehem, PA on a beautiful New Years Day morning.

The Lehigh Valley's GP38-2's and C420's are now part of the D&H, and the rest of its road power has been scattered to the winds by Conrail. Most through freights in the area are now lead by locomo... (more)

A Reading GP30, GP30, C424 set idles at Jersey Central's Bethlehem roundhouse on a snowy March morning.

Three Conrail GP8's lead the Saucon Drill across the Lehigh River as they travel from the former CNJ Allentown Yard to the former Reading Saucon Yard. Today, this route is long-since removed, alth... (more)

The former Jersey Central main line east of Bethlehem has been unused as a through route since the early 1970's. The tracks between Easton and Freemansburg were ripped up, and the former main line... (more)

Forty years ago yesterday, I had graduated from a Kodak Instamatic to a brand-new Minolta SRT-101. I was running the first roll of film through it when I encountered this train on the CNJ-operated... (more)

"Erie Passing the Steel Mill"

NS 1068 is on the point of 211 as the train heads Westbound passing through Bethlehem, PA. The Erie unit had come off the previous days 290, an extr... (more)

Late afternoon shadows have nearly overtaken the right-of-way as NS 67Z rolls westbound through CP Bethlehem with empty crude oil tanks from Linden, NJ.

EMD Encore
It's standard cab EMD heaven for a moment in Bethlehem as NS local H76 makes a run for Portland with an SD40-2 leading three GP38-2s. This consist is passing a trio of Cana... (more)

C:P 6oo3
A trio of heavily weathered Canadian Pacific SD40-2s spent this sunny but cold autumn day idling in the River Yard adjacent to the NS Lehigh Line. Late afternoon low sun high... (more)

The Central of Georgia heritage unit leads an auto-rack train westbound past the former Lehigh Valley-Reading Bethlehem Union Station.

A westbound tank train waits for a new crew on the layoff track.

Three CP units lay over in the River Yard.