In this program, we’ll view freight and commuter operations on the east end of the Jersey Central in the 1960s.

Here is a diverse collection of scenes over the Lehigh New England Railroad and Lehigh & Hudson River Railway sister bridge routes from the Lehigh Valley to Maybrook.

The last years of operations of the Reading Railroad on the Bethlehem Branch, the East Penn Branch from the Bethlehem area to Reading and from Reading to New Jersey.

This Program covers the Anthracite Railroads Via Reading Railroad’s Wilmington and Northern Branch.

After the fall of the Anthracite roads in 1976, the D&H continued the “Alphabet route” trains via trackage rights. We railfan former the DLW and CNJ lines.

In Volume 2 we railfan the Champlain, Saratoga and Susquehanna divisions as well as trains on the Lehigh line, former DL&W line to Binghamton and the D&H turns from 1974 to 1981.

Short lines and branch lines play a vital role in the movement of merchandise. And are often colorful railroads to follow! We look at three shorts and some branch action.

The Reading Railroad was an Anthracite hauler that linked the ports and markets of Philadelphia to Pennsylvania’s anthracite coal regions. We look at Steam and Diesel freight and passenger operations from the late 40s to the mid 60s.

The events that followed the acquisition of the D&H by Guilford Transportation just a few years after these films were taken would result in the demise of the Delaware and Hudson Railroad as many once knew it.

Railfan the Conrail Pittsburgh Line for three days in June of 1985 from Cove to Cresson, Pennsylvania. We’ll see coal, mail and auto parts trains, plus Amtrak’s Broadway limited and the Pennsylvanian are also featured.

The Liberty Bell Route was a 55 mile long, mostly overhead wire, single track operation, with frequent passing sidings to provide opposing car operation.. Rare film, mostly in color.

Climb aboard and sit back and relax as we tour the city lines of the Lehigh Valley Transit Company. We’ll tour the lines from both trackside and while riding in car. Rare film, mostly color.

The Lehigh Valley Railroad was an Anthracite coal hauling railroad which extended from New York City to Buffalo New York. Volume 1 looks at steam and first generation diesel operations between the mid 1940’s and the mid 1960’s.