Conrail train WJAL-12, the Cement Secondary local, gets ready to work the remains of the former Lehigh & New England yard ay Tadmor, Pennsylvania. When the yard, located on the Martin’s Creek branch, was built in the early 1930’s, it was named for a Biblical town between Bethlehem and Nazareth, just as the new facility on the L&NE was. Having grown up about ten miles from here and seen this line since the 1960’s, it is still unusual to see former NYC Flexi-Flow and other cylindrical covered hoppers where 34-foot ACF and P-S covered hoppers have dominated since the late 1930’s.
