The Lehigh Line is a railroad line in Central New Jersey, Northeastern Pennsylvania, and the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania. It is owned and operated by the Norfolk Southern Railway. The line runs west from the vicinity of the Port of New York and New Jersey in Manville, New Jersey via Conrail's Lehigh Line to the southern end of Wyoming Valley's Coal Region in Lehigh Township, Pennsylvania.
A Norfolk Southern Railway train on the Lehigh Line in Easton, Pennsylvania in October 2006
The LV's Black Diamond in 1898
The Lehigh Line passing by the site of the former Bethlehem Steel plant, which is now the Wind Creek Bethlehem casino
The Lehigh Valley Railroad station. Until the 1950s, the Lehigh Valley Railroad offered 2 hour and 15 minute direct train service to Pennsylvania Station in New York City
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The Norfolk Southern Railway is a Class I freight railroad operating in the Eastern United States. Headquartered in Atlanta, the company was formed in 1982 with the merger of the Norfolk and Western Railway and Southern Railway. The company operates 19,420 route miles (31,250 km) in 22 eastern states, the District of Columbia, and has rights in Canada over the Albany to Montreal route of the Canadian Pacific Kansas City. Norfolk Southern Railway is the leading subsidiary of the Norfolk Southern Corporation.
NS 9865, a GE Dash 9-40CW, leads an intermodal train in Wauseon, Ohio
Norfolk Southern's headquarters in Atlanta
The 2023 derailment in East Palestine, Ohio
Two NS trains heading east along the Pittsburgh Line