LV 212 idles in Bethlehem engine terminal. This tired unit came to the LV from the Penn Central in 1972 as a trade for the original 212, an even more tired RS2. The PC, which controlled the LV, us... (more)

Conrail is a week shy of being one year old, and so far, LV 224 has escaped renumbering. The ex-LV caboose with it, however, has been given the full blue paint treatment.

A Lehigh Valley eastbound manifest waits for a clear signal to proceed eastward through Pittston Junction. The lead unit is a former PRR RS11m, built in 1957. Note the second unit ... (more)

High above the Delaware River, Lehigh Valley train NE-1, with 99 cars, makes its exit from New Jersey.

Palmerton was a gritty town in the heyday of the New Jersey Zinc Company. Train AS-1 (Allentown - Sayre) passes the west plant, which is almost completely veiled in its own pollution.

1950 built S-12 #243 idles at the west end of Coxton Yard.

LV #637 leads a C628 trio on an eastbound at the north (RR west) end of Coxton Yard in Duryea, Pennsylvania. All those boxcars were probably picked up at the P&G paper mill in Mehoopany. Ekta... (more)

The current Allentown yard is a much different facility than it was prior to being rebuilt in 1978-9. Today, the main tracks are next to the Lehigh canal, on the opposite side of the yard from thi... (more)

LV eastbound at Bloomsbury NJ. Ektachrome X original.

An Alco helper trio (C420, RS-18, C420) drifts downgrade back to Packerton Yards on a damp March day. Scrappers had nearly finished removing the Jersey Central mainline tracks at left. All Jers... (more)

Meet at West Portal. On a rainy March day, an unusual visitor to the LV waits to enter single track- Pittsburg & Shawmut SW9 #236. View is looking east. Scanned from Ektachrome X.

A relatively uncommon dynamic brake equipped SW8 "pup" switches cars in Easton, PA. The bridge carried the LV Easton & Northern branch over the LV mainline and the Lehigh River. Ekta... (more)

Dwarf semaphore. This protected Lehighton Interlocking, the junction where Jersey Central and LV traffic entered Packerton Yards in Lehighton, PA. The bridge in the distance once carried Jersey Ce... (more)

EMD NW2 #183 and Alco RS-11 #400 idle on a hazy July afternoon. Packerton Yards, Lehighton, Pennsylvania.

An unexpected quintet of LV SW8s rolls downgrade on the weed-grown LV Mountain Cut Off toward Laurel Run and Coxton. The oversize load visible beyond the SW8s was probably too large for Jersey Cen... (more)