Would you settle for a photo of a pair of LV PA locos on a freight train? https://www.railpictures.net/photo/320180/
Photos taken at the LV passenger station at Jim Thorpe/Mauch Chunk PA - across the river from the town center and CNJ station - seem rather rare.
This discussion reminds me of a strange encounter with a peculiar railfan many years ago. A friend and I were taking photos of an F-Unit fantrip in Spartanburg, SC. There were fans everywhere. I was wearing my LV ballcap, and a guy walked up and proclaimed in accusatory tone, "Lehigh Valley?! The Reading had everything they did except PAs". As I stood silent trying to assess why this man thought his appraisal was of interest to me, he turned away and was gone.
So on that note we'll move to some former Reading trackage, Wyomissing Junction just West of the city of Reading, PA. NS 30A is led by 5 units, an EMD SD70ACe, 2 Dash 9's, and a pair of GP38-2's. Even the Geeps were on line. NS 5802 was built as a GP50, and rebuilt as a GP38-2 in 2004.
Possibilities: a) he was drunk or otherwise impaired b) he lost a bet c) he has a serious attitude problem d) it was a mild case of "watch this" syndrome I suspect c) with a liberal sprinkling of a). I'll take two helpings of that, extra smoky.
That is not the NH Hudson River Bridge at Poughkeepsie, NY. Rather, it is the (now gone) LNE Lehigh Gap bridge, over the Lehigh River, at Slatington PA, just south of Palmerton. https://bridgehunter.com/pa/lehigh/bh46692/
How about a former Lehigh Valley unit working in 2021? NS 5659 started out as LV GP38AC 313, coupled to NS 5657, originally built for Penn Central. After passing through Conrail, both were rebuilt by NS into GP38-2's. Working yesterday as H99, they have paused at Wyo JCT to drop an official who's left his truck parked along the ROW.
That was a weird comment. Rather disconnected. I would like to have asked him just what was his point?
The delicacy known as barbequed autorack was on the CSX menu in eastern Alabama this past Thursday evening: This is the aftermath:
Some photos from last week- An E353 running limited express service through Tokyo and a couple photos from the north end of Shinjuku station overlooking the tracks. I missed a meet of 8 commuter trains of various types after I shoved my phone in my pocket to catch up to my family. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I never picked up the symbol for this westbound manifest late this afternoon. There were a couple of very clean Canadian Pacific Lines hoppers, and carrying the marker was this mystery (to me) heavy-duty flat. Aren't LBR Lowville & Beaver River reporting marks? Didn't they fail about 15 years ago?
"LBR" seems to be "Lowville & Beaver River Railroad. Anyone know something about them? If so, maybe they have a designated shipper on line which uses such a car?
A terrible photo, but I was excited-freight trains aren’t as common where I am in Japan-but if you look past the glare of the doors of the train I’m on AND past all those commuters on the platform, you can see tank cars carrying some type of fuel (probably diesel or gasoline) for Eneos. They are the same that carry JP-8 (aviation grade fuel) to the US based out here, but the markings are a little different. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
