Lehigh Valley Railroad Roundhouse - Abandoned

Learn how to effectively move your camera, It's an important video but you butchered it with bad technique. fix it.

Such a shame This should be saved and made into a museum

I was there 3 years ago. Such a beautiful roundhouse. The bathroom was straight out of a horror movie. The fact that the tipple is still pretty much intact is rad too. Good stuff 👍

My grandfather and great grandfather both worked at this roundhouse. My great grandfather was the first of the LV officials to meet Lindburgh when he landed at Coxton in a field across from this roundhouse.

Epic video. grew up in the Northampton / ironton area. I love LVRR there is a mostly intact round house minus the tracks, on private land but there is a trail behind it you can see it from. I contacted the company who's business owns the land and they let me do a walk around years ago when they were closed for opertations. That part of the yard is storage for the steel the fabricated things they make. There are old steam cranes and back there too. but the building is intact. No more train tracks. No more turntable. But the brick and mortar and wood is still there and for the most part it's preserved. Frozen in time as other industry grew around it. It is the slatebelt section of the RR. I just found out what i thought was the outlet wall for the canal was actually a trestle that got washed out in 1946 and the existing one i know is its replacement built in the 1950s and subsequently was shut down a few years after it was built. According to older locals the collpaseped bridge was built By Jersey central rail road in the late 18 early 1900s to shunt train cars across the river to an area to loop the train around and back across the bridge. I will do more research and get facts. But D&L and Ironton RRs both have a heritage trail that line the river on both sides. People myself included cross the trestle every day. So many locals including myslef know alot about this LVRR i used to jimp from the trestle to the river as a teen. I grew up hiking and fishing on and around that bridge and was taught about the rich history of coal, slate and concrete in the valley like how the former atlas cement plant that shipped 90% of raw material for the Panama Canal concrete from the local quarry in Northampton. my schools team was the Konkrete Kids. It's gratifying to know the history teacher included local lore. Years ago the D&L trail was just that a deer trail over the LVRR tracks. But learning my areas history in more depth is so gratifying.

The town of Martinsburg, WV has preserved most of its roundhouse, although a second on was destroyed by an arsonist. Check it out. Thanks for the video. Edit: camerawork is too jerky, slow pan allows us to see the picture better.

C9r)oxton? Near Wilkes-Barre? First thought is was Manchester NY ca. 100 miles east of Buffalo which I wandered through in 1983. Once supposedly the World's Largest Relay Yard. Paperwork there was from either 1967 or 1970.

This roundhouse needs to have restoration as a museum in the future.

That was great! You gave plenty of history and took good video. Really enjoyed this. I might go visit

Keep these videos coming friend. I’m a fanatic of Pennsylvania railroads.

The roundhouse with mountains in background at the end of the video is mid 40's Ogden, Utah I live about 6 miles away from what remains which is just a round hole.

It’s crazy how vandals could destroy a concrete building and mental locomotives .

Too depressing to watch

I found the videography very difficult to follow. I couldn’t focus on anything with all the constant fast panning. Maybe re-film but walkthrough with a slower pace?

where is this??? i catalog Roundhouses 2,426 locations of Roundhouses/Turntables in the USA want to make sure i have this one in database .. TY

So was the Lehigh valley a class 1 or a class 2 railroad?

Where is this place friend??

Nice just leave a mess for someone else to clean up whatever

May this country be damned for turning it back on Cole and steam locomotives. All of those skills lost forever. First the steam disappeared then the Diesels disappeared then the railroad disappeared so much for the prosperous new America

ohh man thats an old Baldwin 50 Ton switcher!!!!!