It's a beautiful but cold Spring morning as eastbound stack train 22V slides through the curve on the outskirts of Emmaus, PA in route to work the river yard in Bethlehem. Trailing the former LMS ... (more)

Ethanol empties, led by an SD70M, return west for another load, seen passing through the small village of Lyons, just east of Reading, PA, on a beautiful summer evening.

Norfolk Southern local H68 flies through the farm fields surrounding Bowers, PA on its way to work Reading Yard.

Running behind schedule due to a mixture of crew availability and below zero temperatures, Pavonia Yard (Camden, NJ) to Allentown manifest 39G crosses the Lehigh River on its final leg of its jour... (more)

Ethanol empties return west on a cold Black Friday morning seen from across the rolling fields of eastern Berks County. For a view from this spot in the summertime, please click Railroad: Norfolk Southern
Locomotive: EMD SD70
Location: Longswamp Twsp., Pennsylvania, USA
Locomotive #: NS 2503
Train ID: NS 65E
Photo Date: November 29, 2013

A Union Pacific SD70M slowly approaches the interlocking signals at CP BURN where it will pause with its work train to wait for westbound intermodal 21M to pass.

The corn crop is approaching its normal height for this time of year in Berks County, but is still not high enough to block passing trains along NS's Reading to Allentown main. Here, three NS unit... (more)

A former Conrail C40-8W leads a pair of BNSF AC traction units across the Lehigh River bridge at CP Allen, just outside the Allentown yard with manifest train 16N from Elkhart, IN.

After catching the UP 1996 leading 212 over in New Jersey, I stopped by Allentown to see what else was running. A quick side trip to CP Burn found this work train waiting for priority mail train 2... (more)

NS 261 came through Lyons just at the right time, mere seconds before shadows covered the rails. The train, along with 25M who is following on his blocks, will pause at Blandon to allow 20W to pas... (more)

NS 15T heads west through Emmaus on a warm summer evening. The lead unit, NS 6548, is one of the 20 SD60s NS bought from HLCX in May. This unit was formerly HLCX 5968.

The class unit for NS's SD70M-2s leads 34A west across Harrison Street in Allentown, PA. The former Conrail unit trailing is NS 3805, an SD38. These units, of which NS owns just under twenty, are ... (more)

Westbound manifest train 34A is seen about to cross Harrison Street in Allentown, PA on a rather hot morning in early June. The trailing three units are all shop engines which will be set out in E... (more)

Three big GEs handle a rather long westbound 15T, seen in Emmaus at 5:10PM.

Birmingham to Allentown manifest 16T heads eastbound around the curve west of Alburtis with a former Conrail Dash-8 leading. In the last few weeks, several of these units have been seen throughout... (more)