Allentown Triple X

Railfans in the Allentown, Pennsylvania area got a nice treat in July 1979, when three relatively scarce Santa Fe GP40X’s spent a few days in eastern Pennsylva... (more)

True Colors

One of two Lehigh Valley C420’s to retain its 1964 as-delivered “yellow jacket” paint scheme, now-D&H 413 leads a train west (D&H north) from Allentown, Pennsylv... (more)

Making its exit from Allentown yard, a 104-car westbound Conrail manifest passes the building that once housed the Allentown Plant of the W. T. Hahn Motor Truck Company. In 1929, Hahn merged with ... (more)

Four RS11’s, still dressed in the Lehigh Valley’s Cornell Red, but tattooed with Conrail monograms, lead a westbound train out of Allentown yard on the former CNJ main line. The Lehigh Valley ... (more)

Leasers…add Life!

Paraphrasing the familiar mid-‘70’s Coca-Cola advertising slogan from the billboard in the photo, one of the ways that the drab monotony of the ex-PC power... (more)

Viewed from the Tilghman Street/Union Boulevard bridge in Allentown, Pennsylvania, an eastbound Conrail train approaches Allentown yard from Lehighton and points beyond. The truss bridge in the ba... (more)

A Four Builder Lashup?

The lead unit of this northbound Delaware & Hudson train began life as D&H RS3 4122. Although it still carries a lot of its RS3 lines, D&H 505 was outshopped... (more)

With the setting sun barely above the horizon, a southbound Delaware & Hudson train makes its final approach to Allentown yard. The two ex-Lehigh Valley GP38-2’s and two ex-Reading GP39-2’s ar... (more)

After the Delaware & Hudson’s expansion as a result of the Conrail merger, the D&H was short of power, and looked in all directions for additional locomotives. One solution came in the form of a... (more)

Rock Star

When the Susquehanna won the right to run haulage trains over Conrail’s Southern Tier line between the Southern Division in Little Ferry and the Northern Division in Bi... (more)

Eastbound coal arrives at Conrail’s Allentown, Pennsylvania yard on the former Reading East Penn line. The N&W box car is on one of the tracks that curve to the right as part of the former Jerse... (more)

Almost eight years after the Conrail merger, there were still “patch jobs” wandering around the system. Here a GP38-2 in the drab austerity scheme leads a set of power out of the west end of A... (more)

Conrail’s C30-7A “class unit”, number 6550, is sandwiched by twenty percent of GE’s C32-8 production. Conrail purchased the only ten of the 3200 horsepower C-C’s that were produced. In ... (more)

A westbound Conrail freight doubles its train as it prepares to leave Allentown yard. There are two unusual locomotives in the consist. There’s an MT6 slug at the rear of the consist, probably ... (more)