LEHIGH VALLEY WESTBOUND CROSSES THE DELAWARE RIVER - EASTON, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 1963
Digging into the collection and what I have from Hawk Mountain NRHS, how about another freight with PA power on it? Okay, so not by themselves but with some helpers along. Here we see a westbound freight crossing the Delaware River behind a crazy mixed bag of power. An RS-3 and an RS-2, plus a pair of PA-1's, team up with an F-7B to move the tonnage west. Again, back in the train are some of those cool B&O hopper cars, which seem to have been rather prevalent on the LV.
It's interesting as perhaps the LV did a better job of keeping like units as solid sets than other roads I've seen, yet at times they could still run crazy setups like this one crossing the river. This bridge was the LV mainline, to the left of this bridge was the CNJ's mainline bridge, with the L&HR's bridge a bit further to the left. This bridge is abandoned as under Conrail consolidations, trains switched between LV and CNJ mains just behind where the unknown photographer took this from. The L&HR's bridge remains somewhat used as a secondary line but there are no rails left today on this still standing structure.
LEHIGH VALLEY WESTBOUND CROSSES THE DELAWARE RIVER - EASTON, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 1963
Digging into the collection and what I have from Hawk Mountain NRHS, how about another freight with PA power on it? Okay, so not by themselves but with some helpers along. Here we see a westbound freight crossing the Delaware River behind a crazy mixed bag of power. An RS-3 and an RS-2, plus a pair of PA-1's, team up with an F-7B to move the tonnage west. Again, back in the train are some of those cool B&O hopper cars, which seem to have been rather prevalent on the LV.
It's interesting as perhaps the LV did a better job of keeping like units as solid sets than other roads I've seen, yet at times they could still run crazy setups like this one crossing the river. This bridge was the LV mainline, to the left of this bridge was the CNJ's mainline bridge, with the L&HR's bridge a bit further to the left. This bridge is abandoned as under Conrail consolidations, trains switched between LV and CNJ mains just behind where the unknown photographer took this from. The L&HR's bridge remains somewhat used as a secondary line but there are no rails left today on this still standing structure.