A Philadelphia, Bethlehem & New England NW2 works a yard job in Bethlehem, PA, back when Bethlehem Steel was a thriving business and the PB&NE was a busy switching railroad.
The conductor looks back for latecomers as a set of former Lackawanna MUs, forty years old at the time, prepares to depart South Orange, NJ, for the Hoboken terminal.
Silhouetted by its own cloud of smoke, a westbound Boston & Maine freight led by a GP39-2 and three mates accelerates through Greenfield, MA, as it begins its climb of the Berkshires.