Covering the Lehigh Valley and the D&H, with Contrail and Penn Central making appearances, the Kosin collection features Super 8mm railroad films photographed by the late George Naugle of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

Rare film footage of the Lehigh Valley between the mid 1940’s and the early 1970’s. Fascinating narration and commentary by railroader Mike Bednar.

In Volume 3 of Railfanning the Reading, we’ll pick up where we left off in Volume 2 at 12th Street Allentown and traverse the East Penn Branch to the cross line proceeding west to Carlisle Junction.

The Classic Midwest Rails series showcases the exciting and diverse railroad action in the picturesque Midwest region from class one mainlines to branch lines, industrials and short line operations.

Along the Lehigh & New England is a collection of scenes on the Lehigh New England Railroad from Tamaqua, PA to Campbell Hall, NY between the mid 1940’s and the early 1960s.

In volume 2 of the Erie Lackawanna series, we resume our tour from Hainesburg and progress west to Binghamton and to Hornell in the 1960s, then the Sussex Branch.

This series provides an in depth look at Erie-Lackawanna Railroad operations in both pre and post merger, including mainline, secondary and branch line coverage.

We’ll venture off the beaten main line tracks and chase general freight, ore and coal trains from Williamsport to Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania in the mid 1950s through the early 1960s.

We’ll visit the industrial lines in the Lehigh River Valley and then work our way west to the coal regions in the Wyoming Valley.

In this finale volume, we look at waning years of the anthracite railroads and progression to the inevitable formation of Conrail. Under Conrail.

We revisit some favorite locations along the Reading, Lehigh Valley and CNJ coal roads, as well as scenes on the Pennsy, Delaware & Hudson and Erie Lackawanna roads outside the coal regions.

Volume 2 continues the tour of the Kantner film collection from the last days of revenue steam to the arrival of second generation diesel power, in the mid 1950s to the early 1960s.