Conrail CP D&H Lehigh Line

An assortment of action on Conrail's Lehigh Line/Lehigh Secondary. In the first scenes we follow Conrail CGAL from Sayre to Pittston. Several views of the Ox Bow/Hetchel area follow, then a CP 555 train from the Lehigh Gorge to near Wilkes Barre. Then we catch the last northbound CP 555 train with a Conrail leader and 3 NS units passing the Oak Island train at Allentown, following 555 all the way to Avoca where we catch another CP southbound for the finale. All of this material dates from winter 1992 and January 1993.

[@georgettedebuhr2660]

Very nice! Good to hear Conrail horns. I really do miss them Have a nice day😊

[@robertkrasinski9096]

Dupont-Sayre is now Reading and Northern, and Lehigh Railway. They meet at Mehoopany west of Vosburg tunnel. P&G is a big customer for R&N.

[@fmnut]

At 09:45, Hetchel is in the tangent just beyond where you can see the track disappearing to the left in the upper left corner of the scene. From this same location, if you would pan around to the far right, the curve at the end of where you can see the track is the Ox Bow curve.

[@sp8553]

NICE!!! One of the best videos from the upper Lehigh Line that I've ever seen. It's really a shame we don't have a CGAL/ALCG equivalent on the Dupont-Sayre stretch anymore.

[@kenharbin3440]

I miss trains on the Lehigh Line. Very little activity, just locals, everything routed through Enola since NS purchased the D&H Susquehanna line.

[@rwk2050]

Is ALCG Allentown-Corning? That was when the entire railroad was owned by Conrail, now it's broken up into different owners like NS, Reading and Northern, Lehigh Railway. So yes, we'll never see a run through train like that again. NS goes Allentown-Binghamton now via R&N and CP.

[@mikerosehobbies]

Beautifully done! I've spent a lot of time on this line (but not in winter!) and it's what my HO layout is based on, we run CGAL/ALCG at every op session.

[@Piotr998p]

very nice video !!!

[@eliwilson97]

At 9:45 where is Hetchel exactly located? Is it the big curve closest to you or the curve at the top left?

[@rwk2050]

When was this taken? There are NS locos on some of the trains along with Conrail, as well as CP Rail. Was it pre-1999 before the split or after? Is it pre-Reading and Northern, pre-1996 as well?

[@fmnut]

1993 and 1994. The NS locos are on D&H/CP trains.

[@kaibrown6204]

CP RR op to buy you out as Conrail how many locamotives as to freight equipment

[@kaibrown6204]

Eight seven as share CP RR an right to two thousand share of conrail