The last day before becoming a fallen-flag, the Lehigh Valley terminal at Sayre was the object of a last-minute attempt by the photographer to capture pure LV before the startup of Conrail, some 3... (more)

All first-generation diesel locomotive conssit

LV 213 move the LV wreck train back to the Mechanical track. In 1975 this yard was very active, today only the main line next to the station is all that is left.

LV 637 throttles up as it gets the lineup through the plant westbound at NK.

An eastbound Reading commuter train on LV trackage rights, meets a manifest lead by snowbirds, waiting at NK interlocking.

LV Snowbirds in August are climbing the new connection eastward to the CNJ a couple years after the Joint Use of Facilities Agreement

Early Conrail

The sand is running out of the hourglass for the Lehigh Valley at this point...but it still looks great here!

Lehigh Valley Baldwin RS-12 working at Sayre, PA || June 1974

Picking up a couple rolls of Kodachrome II K25 on the fly, and with a borrowed camera, the photographer made a side trip from a funeral back home in N.J. to capture the last day of the LV and EL i... (more)

The photographer was back home in NJ for a funeral when he decided to make a side trip to photograph the last day of the LV and EL in eastern PA/NY before becoming fallen flags and part of Conrail... (more)

LV C628 #634 in the original, as delivered, "Snowbird" paint scheme at Allentown, PA in the summer of 1974.

Conrail is so new that they haven't even had time to screw up a really nice paint job yet. Sometime folks I just get depressed and think we ought to say the heck with it, merge everthing into one... (more)

LV cabooses came in different colors, just like the locomotives!!

Winter was hard on the Lehigh Valley and this pair of Alco C628's [625/634] has just arrived on a train from Buffalo. Railfans and some crews affectionately called them "Snowbirds". But they rod... (more)