The story of the Valley's through freights, how they gathered the local traffic and forwarded it to classification yards. The Apollo piggyback service and the 1972 pickup of former Lehigh & New England trackage added additional traffic to the mix.
Contents: Passenger Service, pp. 4-23, The Railroad Life, pp. 24-27, Divisional and 'Junk' Freights, pp. 28-61, Symbol Freights in the Initial Period of Decline: 1945-1972, pp. 62-82, The New England Connection, pp. 83-94, The Pride of the Fleet: The Apollos, pp. 95-101, Freight Trains in 'The Whitehead Era', pp. 102-123, The End of a Great Company, pp. 124-128.
Hardcover with dust jacket, 128 pages, 8.5 x 11 in., Color photographs with captions.
