Shortly before sunset on a frosty January evening in 1999, I exposed this Fujichrome slide of the former Lehigh Valley Railroad mainline in Batavia, New York.

Most of the Lehigh Valley mainline across western New York was abandoned following the creation of Conrail on April 1, 1976.

This isolated segment survived to serve local customers, and at the time of this image it was being operated by Genesee Valley Transportation.

Conrail itself only had a few months remaining of independant operation before its class-I operations were split between CSX and Norfolk Southern.

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