Conrail's Allentown Hump Yard (Early 1990's)

[@jasonlewis21]

The sounds of those big blue locomotives are something I miss dearly

[@williamthawley9251]

back when I lived in cape may, would come and stand here and video tape the hump working, that was back when this was take in the 90s. now live in bethlehem

[@mrkbhrns]

Used to go there fairly often. Nice way to spend a day rail fanning. Thanks for sharing.

[@johnk4690]

Wow this brought back some fantastic memories. My dad used to be bring me down to the hump almost every Sunday. Loved seeing the good old 6935 hard at work again, thanks for sharing

[@paulwarner5395]

Thanx for the voyage back in time .

[@ocsrc]

I remember seeing the huge yard at the North end of the Quakertown branch line 50 tracks There were double tracks coming out of Philadelphia all the way through Telford and Sellersville and in Quakertown there were 4 tracks and then back to 2 through Coopersburg and Center Valley and up to the yard in Hellertown just south of Bethlehem Steel I watched as they built I-78 over the top of the yard. I remember driving over I-78 year after year seeing the yard become less and less and then it was gone completely I used to watch D&H trains in that yard and one of the last things I saw pulled out of the yard was a D&H caboose. So much history So many trains went on those tracks every day And now it is overgrown

[@JAGUAR-GT]

Cheesie's and Con-Rail's, (not Con-Rail Quality), have one of the best looking paint designs. Fortunately in Maryland in the "80"s I saw a lot of them.

[@BernieLomax-g8j]

Early 90's this is from as the Roundhouse and table are still standing, in 92 the Coal Unloader was removed and then in 94 the Roundhouse was the Table stayed for many years just filled in as the bridge was aligned a certain track until early 2000 when it was all officially removed. 96 Laser sensors were added to the track just passed the Hump Weight which was located just before the Master Brake Retarder. Nice S-1 Switcher #104 wonder who's it was as Bethlehem Steel only used SW1200 series. Great Timeless video, really enjoyed that

[@lawerencestimpson2280]

Great memories.After 9-11 not so good.

[@guyhartsel8797]

I use to ride on the hump power lash up many times at Stanley yards in Toledo ohio back in day

[@Fleetwood2547]

I knew of a gentleman named Alen Lenker through an email group. I believe he was a carman, started in '75 with the Penn Central. Retired out of the Norry yard sometime after NS took over. I wonder if he is the cameraman you mentioned.

[@andybenfer6044]

@@Fleetwood2547 Yes that would indeed be him!

[@stephenlineman]

great content had to shut it off get a tripod slow your movement

[@andybenfer6044]

@@stephenlineman These videos are from the 90’s or early 2000’s so I can’t do anything about the shaky movement.

[@albertcyphers1532]

Good old Conrail the kings of deferred maintenance. They had trains that wouldn't stop, track falling apart and bridges falling down

[@THR33STEP]

Can you name an example of a bridge that fell down and when?

[@babayaga2977]

And yet they still did better than the pathetic NS !

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