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Snow Covered former Lehigh Valley

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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Classic Conrail Kodachrome

This was among the many slides that I scanned yesterday.

In my ongoing effort to scan, archive, and organize my slide collection, I’ve been scanning slides, and reorganizing the original chromes so that they are placed together by similar subject.

Conrail is just one of dozens of my subject categories . Ultimately, I hope to subdivide the Conrail slides in to smaller categories largely based on precursor railroad routes.

This Kodachrome 25 image of a westward Conrail unit coal train was exposed in September 1988 at School Road in Batavia, New York, near milepost 399 on the former New York Central ‘Water Level Route’ main line using my old Leica M2 with 50mm f2.0 Summicron lens.

It is one of hundreds of Conrail photos I exposed between 1985 and 1999 of Conrail trains working the old Water Level Route.

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