An eastbound Conrail coal train, possibly a UPS, rolls through the location known a Geissingers on the former Lehigh Valley main line between Allentown and Bethlehem. Originally named for the family whose farm was here, Geissingers is across the Lehigh River from the former CNJ Allentown yard, due south of the light side hump tower, an LV milepost 90.7. I can’t confirm that the railroad ever had an agency or an operatos there, but it was a location that appeared in employee timetables through the last one in 1975.
Geissingers was the location of a Christmas day fatality in 1901, as reporter in the Allentown Leader, “TWO KILLED ON XMAS. FATALITY ON LEHIGH VALLEY RAILROAD AT GEISSINGERS. The engineer of Lehigh Valley train No. 29, due here at 6.42, on, Christmas light saw two bodies lying beside the track at Geissingers. The train was stopped and the bodies were brought to Allentown. It is believed the men were Hungarians. One was about 26 years old, 5 ft. 3 tall, and had a light mustache. The older was 35 years old, 3 ft. 7, and had dark hair and mustache. They wore good dark clothes and hobnail shoes. One had six cents and the other 50. It is believed they were killed by train No. 4, eastbound, due it 5.36, but half an hour late. The men's heads and legs were crushed and death must have been instantaneous. Coroner Goheen had them removed to Sourbier's morgue, where they will be held several days to await identification. . The hat of one of the victims was found by Coroner Goheen. It was a black slough with the initials "D. J." cut in the sweatband by machine. The ofiicer at the Lehigh Valley station In Allentown saw the men at 4.23. At 5 they were gone."
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