PBNE offices and tower GONE

Just cruzing Live maps. The PBNE offices on E 4th St in Bethlehem are now a pile of rubble and so is the yard tower

The yard is still in tact albiet used for car storage.

As for Beth Steel I was surprised that the casino just takes up the space behind the old crane. I thought it took up the entire property. The coke works and a lot of the other structures around the casino are still in place, although they look like something after a nuclear bomb went off. Also a lot of PBNE yard track exists around the existing buildings in the old complex. There are even sold ancient flat cars and other rail equipment parked on those tracks. Whoever owns the propery now must lease out of some the old buildings as offices or something as they are cars parked in the spaces near the buildings no where near the casino.

Anyone know who owns the PBNE and why they bothered to continue after Steel shut down???

carajul wrote:Anyone know who owns the PBNE and why they bothered to continue after Steel shut down???

The Lehigh Valley Rail Management group owns them now. Their "mission" is on their web page.
http://www.lehighvalleyrailmanagementllc.com/

carajul wrote:The coke works and a lot of the other structures around the casino are still in place

The coke works were closed in December 1997 and demolished shortly after.

M.T

The buildings adjacent to the casino were part of the Bethlehem Steel forge. Today it is operated by Lehigh Heavy Forge and they continue to use rail service by the LVRM. The coke works was at the site of the Intermodal yard today.

My father worked for the Steel for 20 years at the Bethlehem plant. It seems that all of our heavy industry is disappearing in the Lehigh Valley, Allentown used to have a company called Lehigh Structural Steel, was that like a mini-Beth Steel? Because Beth Steel made structural steel. Now it's all foreign import steel, even the assets of Beth Steel are owned by a foreign company, ISG was bought by Mittal Steel which became ArcelorMittal.

rwk wrote:My father worked for the Steel for 20 years at the Bethlehem plant. It seems that all of our heavy industry is disappearing in the Lehigh Valley, Allentown used to have a company called Lehigh Structural Steel, was that like a mini-Beth Steel? Because Beth Steel made structural steel. Now it's all foreign import steel, even the assets of Beth Steel are owned by a foreign company, ISG was bought by Mittal Steel which became ArcelorMittal.

Lehigh Structural Steel was a steel fabricator. They did not make steel; they prepared it for customers.