Lehigh Valley F3A 520, F3B 513, RS11 402 low nose and F7A 562 at Lehighton, Pa. in March 1965. Photo by W.J. Brennan, part of my slide collection.

Between 1969 and 1973, the Lehigh Valley improved its forty-foot box car fleet by leasing 750 rebuilt cars from US Railway Equipment. The majority of the cars were originally Pullman-Standard PS1 ... (more)

How would you like to see an intermodal like this in Bound Brook today? 50 years ago, Lehigh Valley C628s 626-629 lead Apollo-2 around the super-elevated curve at Bound Brook, NJ in early 1972. ... (more)

Lehigh Valley Heritage. Lehigh Valley RDC 40 is seen on display at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania. The unit is looking a bit worse for wear, clearly not having had its turn at cosme... (more)

To most railfans, Lehigh Valley means two things: Camelback engines with Wooton fireboxes, and long trains of anthracite-laden hoppers toiling over the mountains towards New York. The Black Diamo... (more)

LV 301 was one of only two Valley diesels (RS-3 #216 the other) to receive this application of a 4 feet wide yellow band around the entire unit. Photo by Robert Wilt, photo part of my slide co... (more)

As the sun is close to the horizon, Lehigh Valley Train AM-1 rumbles through Parryville, Pennsylvania with 74 cars bound for Mechanicville, New York. Two C420’s and two RS11’s are about to cro... (more)

Numbered 404-15, twelve Alco C420’s graced the roster of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. Here the first one is seen idling at Bethlehem Engine Terminal.

The Lehigh Valley Railroad had four low-hood Alco RS11s, numbered 400-403. In a post-Conrail view, LV 403 stands on a track that was used as the engine terminal for the Lehigh & New England Railwa... (more)

In Summer 1972, LV C628s 627-628 cross Metuchen Road to enter the yard in South Plainfield, NJ to make a pick-up for JSA-1. R. T. Steinbrenner Photo.

In Summer 1972, four LV C628s led by 632 and 630 idle with RS2 218 and RS3 219 in the Sayre Yard engine terminal in Sayre, Pennsylvania. C420s 413 and, recently repainted into Cornell Red, 411 ar... (more)

A particularly grimy RS11 works in the west end of Allentown yard during the last weeks of the Lehigh Valley Railroad’s existence. The grim weather adds to the somber mood hanging over the entir... (more)

Lehigh Valley SW8 250 work the west end of the yard in Allentown Pennsylvania. 250 was one of seven LV SW8’s with MU capability on the cab end only.

Lehigh Valley train NE1 arrives from the Easton a light side hump receiver track in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania with three C628’s and 99 cars. The yellow Maine Central box car displays some of the t... (more)

Two Lehigh Valley RS11’s move along on of the light side hump receiver tracks in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The LV had four low hood RS11’s, along with six high versions that came from parent PR... (more)