A solitary GP39-2 leads Delaware & Hudson train SB-4 to the Runner track to bypass Allentown yard, on a gray January day. The train will bypass Allentown Yard and continue to Bethlehem, where it w... (more)

With the exception of three former EMD SD45 demonstrators, which were informally traded to sister Dereco railroad Erie-Lackawanna, the Delaware and Hudson roster was entirely Alco and GE until the... (more)

After arriving in Allentown with Delaware & Hudson train NE-84, the first Maine Central power to visit the area has run arou... (more)

At a Friday night slide get-together, the latest news was that two Maine Central units had been the power on southbound Delaware & Hudson train NE-87 to Potomac Yard. Of course, they would be the ... (more)

A Boston & Maine GP39-2, reassigned from the Delaware & Hudson as part of GTI’s seemingly constant locomotive shuffle, leads a D&H train from Potomac Yard into the Conrail yard in Allentown, Pen... (more)

A Study in GP39-2’s

After shooting my previous photo of four Delaware & Hudson GP39-2’s getting their ai... (more)

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)