What ever happend to the PBNE?

The Philadelphia, Bethlehem, & New England RR. What became of it when Beth Steel closed? As I understand it the PBNE was the internal switching rr of the steel plant. With the steel plant shut down what ever became of the RR? Their yard is now all storage, the control tower was boarded up and now demolished, the employee parking lot has been weeds for 10 years.

They are now "Lehigh Valley Rail Management"
http://www.bethintermodal.com/

Which is a part of Beth Intermodal.

Oooooook. Nice web site. Looks very 1995-ish.

What is left of their operation these days? I'm sure the glory days are over.

The BethIntermodal terminal, which is pretty busy with at least one RoadRailer train a day, as well as various foundries/mills that inhabit certain parts of the former steel mill (like BethForge, still in operation...).

Micah

I'm pretty sure that BethIntermodal also moves the double stacks into and out of the yard area. Far cry from its heyday, but better than nothing.

And yeah, that website hasn't changed in ages. Maybe they'll update to a nice, 2004-ish MySpace page.

Last time I was up that way in February you could see a 'boat load' of switchers stored in the middle of the yard too. Not sure how many there were, but there were plenty. Some more were parked outside the small enginehouse too, not sure how many of those are still serviceable.

Anybody know just how many units they have stored?