{"id":41319,"date":"2025-03-08T06:10:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T11:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=41319"},"modified":"2025-03-06T20:17:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T01:17:13","slug":"snow-covered-former-lehigh-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/snow-covered-former-lehigh-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow Covered former Lehigh Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most of the Lehigh Valley mainline across western New York was abandoned following the creation of Conrail on April 1, 1976.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

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