Railfanning the Delaware & Hudson Volume 7 is the second part of the three-part series on the last two years of the Penn Division and the subsequent transition to the former Delaware, Lackawanna & Western line from Binghamton to the Lackawanna Valley
23 steam locomotives from 17 different railroads. It’s huge variety of steam engines in action, everything from diminutive switchers to the largest to hit the high iron: N&W 1218, UP Challenger 3985 and 4014, UP’s Big Boy. Includes doubleheader action!
The “Belt” interchanges with every railroad through Chicago, it’s Clearing Yard is one of the largest yards in the country. The “West End” sees all the western roads, and of course the BRC itself. Lots of varied action!
The Conrail Reading Line is Reading & Lehigh Valley Railroad trackage between Allentown-Bethlehem and Reading. We’ll look at Conrail and D&H operations on the Reading Line, including the Temple Hill Track, between 1980 and 1984.
This is a nostalgic and technical look at electric, mountain railroading. See GE box-cabs, Joes, and Bi-polars in many great locations. Remember the “Quills”, Bipolars, GE Boxcabs and GE “Joes”.
Watch 611 work hard on the steep grades including Erlanger Hill in Northern Kentucky, plus the grades at Batavia, Peebles, and Seaman on the Cincinnati to Portsmouth Line.