For those of you that have followed the Penn Division page, this familiar train
is the westbound Apollo shown here passing near the old Richards yard site west
of Easton, PA on former Lehigh Valley track in 1977.DELAWARE AND HUDSON
This page will cover the new extensions of the Delaware and Hudson system following the implementation of Conrail on April 1, 1976. As noted on other pages, the D & H was given rights to Newark, NJ, Philadelphia and Harrisburg. PA.
The D & H assumed operation of the Lehigh Valley's Apollo piggyback trains between Newark and Buffalo, NY, albeit on a slightly different routing west of Scranton, PA. The D & H used former Reading tracks from Allentown via Reading to reach the Chessie System ( B & O ) in Philadelphia. Eventually D & H trains wound up further south in Baltimore, MD.
For those of you that have followed the Penn Division page, this familiar train
is the westbound Apollo shown here passing near the old Richards yard site west
of Easton, PA on former Lehigh Valley track in 1977.
3132 passes through Easton, PA. I am standing on the old Easton and
Northern branch. The small brick building barely visible to the right of
the 3132 was the old LV dining car department store house.
A few months later on a warm summer day, former Reading GP-39 7404 leads the
eastbound Apollo over the Delaware River bridge into Phillipsburg, NJ.
This is former LV track that would be abandoned by Conrail in a few years due to
structural problems with the bridge. This location was the site of a
crossing for the Pennsylvania and Lackawanna railroad interchange track.
It was also the end of double track as the LV was single tracked with CTC
control east of here.
Another former Reading unit leads the eastbound Apollo through Pattenburg, NJ.
One of my favorite shots is new GP-39 7607 leading the eastbound Apollo under
Route 31 between Stanton Station and Flemington, NJ in the early morning.
1976.
CP SD40 5589 leads a slow moving two car train through Manville, NJ in
1998.
Following the CP Rail take over of D & H, SOO Line units began to appear
just about anywhere. Here a pair head east through South Plainfield, NJ.
SOO SD-40 767 at Hillside, NJ 
Arriving at Oak Island yard in Newark, NJ
Sorry it's a lousy picture, but strangely it is the only one I have of any D
& H in Oak Island yard.
Let's jump south to Philadelphia, PA. The B & O had their yard just east of the bridge over the Schuykill River, hence it's name was 'Eastside' yard.
A few shots of the Eastside terminal area in the late 1970's.
A rather ratty looking 7410 and a Guilford unit sit in Elsmere, Delaware on the
CSX.
This is a D & H run through from Harrisburg, PA that ran down along the
Susquehanna River to Perryville, MD. The train is shown here crossing the
Susquehanna River on Amtrak's bridge (ex-PRR).
You know when the weather is bad, something really interesting is bound to show up. Well.........
No, this isn't Montreal, it's Baltimore, Maryland! The CP operates a unit acid train and these units were assigned this day. That Alco-MLW unit is now retired. Anyone know the current status of this operation?
That's it for the D & H stuff if you have been following the north to south flow of these pages. Let me know what you think.
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