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Just a recommendation, think about slowing down your rotation speed while panning around. I have had to practice this myself and I found this improves the video quality during those times. Have a wonderful week.

Nice find, very cool

Cool find!

Are you aloud to walk there? Just curious. i want to go visit that side. Apparently president Ulysse S. Grant walked on that side

What is up top ? Is it a highway ?

I live by the area. NS probably hasnt used that part of the line since the shutdown of GEO chemicals in spring '24. Just a bit further down Iron Bridge Road, is whatever's left a trolley bridge that crossed the creek. Also, if you drive on Albright Avenue, you'll see the old Greenawalds Fire Station. Trolley line ran right behind the fire station. There is a video out there when the trolleys were active at that time.

That’s what you call a teaser

Very cool

Thank you for this short video. I hope you can find pictures of the old iron bridge and the trolley line. A question which you may not be able to answer - if you look at the auto tunnel you will see another small tunnel sitting pretty much on top of it. I drive this way frequently and have often wonder why it is there?

Kev you know there’s lot of tail spikes buried lol there begging to be found 😂 awesome video

Thank you.

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Cool🎉🎉

Reminds me of the Downington Tunnels in Chester Co. 👻

This is amazing 😮

This whole scene was very pleasant to the eyes. The way the trees are falling on the hillside they actually make it look terraced. One wonders if they reused the Iron Bridge Elsewhere on the system. As usual the angular Bridge and the concrete walls are holding up fantastically. While the width isn't huge it would explain the good height clearance. That middle Arch is that an overflow Channel and yet it looks like tire tracks down there. Anyways it looks like a great place to explore

Were the ones on the right, for RR use?😮

That was said to be the largest iron bridge in the world when it was built.

Cool video! Can you sometime do a video of the turntable that still sits upstream of the Rt 93 bridge in Jim Thorpe? That would be awesome.

Great stuff man. If you like, I could share some of my photos with you of my travels on the Central Jersey Railroad from here in Jersey.

In 1969 the CNJ was in such bad shape that they were selling off excess coaches at $600 each. I know because I want to Elizabethport shops and bought two of them - the 983 and the 1133. I had the bill of sale around here until a couple of years ago. Both were bought for the New Hope and Ivyland and were financed by a bunch of us volunteers. I don’t know what happened to the 1133 and the 983 got vandalized before they ever put it into service. I swear that I could have bought a decrepit RS3 for scrap price and driven it back to New Hope. The CNJ headquarters and shops were depressing. Broken down equipment everywhere. That’s about the time that the WK&S bought the CNJ’s private car for scrap price. They later resold it and it was trucked out of Kempton. I would have bought it for New Hope if I had known it was for sale.

Very nice finds there and definitely old work pits

12:21 .......how were those big boulders moved into place back in the olden days i wonder?

Shame that so many people lost their jobs there. Yes, it would be nice if this was converted into a park with replicas of old buildings. This way the new generation would learn how working folks lived back in those days. Thanx for presenting these views.

I'm not sure that was a water tower. More likely, I think, it was a latrine. Water towers in areas where water froze in the winter usually had stone or concrete walls up to the bottom of the water tank, in which they could light a fire to keep the water liquid. This doesn't look like that at all.

Two things: (1) there's a book about this building: The Last Building at Packerton Yards, by Louis Robertella. (I thought I had the book, but I can't find it.) (2) your estimate of 50 yards is very conservative--that building is easily 120-130 yards long.

Hopefully there will be plenty of future rare mileage excursions for the R&N!

The carshops were outdoor. Packerton jct is a mile away and has nothing to do with the shops. The building was the storehouse for the entire railroad, they never repaired freight cars in it, it had no track going into it. There are no recreational plans for the parcel. There was an industrial concern who wanted to buy and repurpose the storehouse but the county had it torn down anyway. That was 2007.

It's a shame that you don't have any concrete information about anything regarding the original roadbed, I'd be really interested to hear what you found that pieces it all together in the future.

The amount of physical labor that went into building this is fascinating.

Awesome video Kevin. My grandfather got a lot of neat LV documents from that building. When Conrail stopped using the building, my grandfather was able to get box loads of way bills, car repair slips and old letters. I am slowly digitizing those on my Lehigh Valley Railroad Facebook page! Looking forward to your next video!

Wow - quite a wall, probably used the stone from the cuts.

Great stuff Kevin - Thanks.

That building was massive. I looked at photos of the building. I could see the ramp you walked up in an old photo. Great coverage of the area, thanks.

I was waiting for you to tell us how many old tires there were. 😁

Not far from the foundation you're looking at there's two large iron hooks embedded into the ground that were for pedestrian bridge that was for Lehigh Valley railroad workers to cross the river from long run to the rail yard. They had a long walk to work and back😮

That stream diversion was an amazing find.

I think that building was torn down in 2005 I have some pictures I took of the demolition in my computer

Yes, it is fascinating. I will try to find this along with the bridge across the little schuylkill

Greetings. Thanks for all that information. When I filmed there, I had no idea the history. All I knew was there was a railroad bed going over the culvert. Have a great day.

Hi Kevin, thanks for doing these great vids! I wonder if that old CNJ line can be followed all the way to Jim Thorpe? Wonder if it links up with the Reading & Northern?

I've seen worse condition search light signals still in service. Let's get a generator and apply some power to those bad boys.

Always cool finding unexpected ruins.... Yup, most likely an old water tower. You sure do like your railroad history! Another really nice video, my friend.

Great set of videos on this now forgotten area. I read over 2000 people worked there at one time.

Great Video! I remember those building being there. I think there was talk about a distribution center or warehouses. Now the area just sits.. I’ll have to check this one out as well!

Very cool, that was on old crapper box for the workers, lotta turds dropped in that bad boy over the years. great find as always.

Great video! My dad was in world war 2 came out and got hired by the railroad and worked in the car shop at shireoaks, in elrama PA. Worked on railroad for 49 years! It changed hands several times penn central, Norfolk southern, etc but he worked his way up was a brakeman, then for the last several years an engineer! So the railroad has a ton of history in our family. I remember he used to take all of us to the yard and let us run an engine in the Yard as well as nieces amd nephews and even his grandchildren. Not sure if you could get away with that these days! Lol

Kevin As a LV fan and modeler, I look forward to your videos as often as you release them. Thanx so much.

Kevin: The CNJ’s exit from PA happened in two stages: First, they negotiated trackage rights on the LV basically up through the Lehigh Gorge. They still ran on some of their own parallel trackage such as preserving their trackage in White Haven. They sort of hop scotched back and forth so it wasn’t a complete abandonment. At Laurel Run they definitely went back into their own trackage and down the mountain to Ashley yard. That was their westward connection where they handed off to the Erie. The Erie actually pick up the CNJ’s westbound cars in Ashley yard. At a later date I don’t remember exactly how it happened (I think that I remember flood damage) the CNJ abandoned all trackage in PA and handed the keys to Allentown yard to the LV so to speak. By that time the CNJ was broke and was a sort of ward of the state of NJ. I don’t think that the state cared a rats butt about the CNJ’s operations in PA and simply saw them as more money lost. The way it worked was that the CNJ said goodbye and the ICC or the state of PA or somebody directed the LV to take over the trackage. It wasn’t until CONRAIL that they began yanking out every last bit of duplicate trackage. The line from Laurel Run down the hill into the Wyoming Valley was supposedly being undermined by a mine fire anyway and the Glen Alden colliery which was adjacent to the CNJ Ashley yard was shut down. They finally dynamited the abandoned coal breaker just a few years ago. It was a rusty eyesore although some people wanted to preserve it. There is nothing left of Ashley yard. Somebody posted on another site that the Wyoming Valley headquarters of an exterminating company (Terminix?) sits right on top of where the turntable was. I worked it out once and the Glen Alden colliery in the old days could load out over 100 carloads of coal per day. And that wasn’t the only colliery that the CNJ serviced. The CNJ was basically a coal conveyor belt that ended in NY harbor. They had not one but two rotary coal dumpers there, BTW.

Hey Kevin great video im always curious about this great property thank you for showing me this awsome history keep up the great work