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Steam locomotives and later Diesel locomotives would take over from Newark for the rest of the trip, mainly being Lehigh Valley Railroad Power. The same operation happened vice-versa. [ 5 ] Train cars were normally swapped out and move in during the trip from New York to Pittston and back, but the train did not change significantly, despite the ...
Interior of a parlor car, c. 1899. The Black Diamond, also known as the Black Diamond Express, was the flagship passenger train of the Lehigh Valley Railroad (LV). [1] It ran from New York to Buffalo [1] from 1896 until May 11, 1959, when the Lehigh Valley's passenger service was reduced to four mainline trains.
1945: The first Lehigh Valley Railroad mainline diesels arrive in the form of EMD FT locomotives. 1948: ALCO PA passenger diesels replace steam on all passenger runs. 1951: September 14: Last day of steam on the Lehigh Valley Railroad as Mikado 432 drops her fire in Delano, Pennsylvania.
RS-2 2 engines built 1949, and later sold to Lehigh Valley Railroad; RSD-5 26 engines built 1952; RS-1 2 engines built 1953; RS-3 2 engines built 1955; RSD-12 10 engines built 1956; RSD-7 12 engines built 1956, retired and traded to GE 1969; C-630 4 engines built 1967, and later sold to Robe River Mining of Australia
Reading Blue Mountain and Northern 425 is a G-1 class 4-6-2 light "Pacific" type steam locomotive built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for the Gulf, Mobile & Northern Railroad. After the GM&N was consolidated into the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio in 1940, the locomotive was renumbered No. 580 and served in passenger service before being retired in 1950.
This locomotive design was a further development of the highly successful 2-10-4. The divided drive, or duplex arrangement, allowed for higher speeds with less damage to the track. A proposed design for the Lehigh Valley Railroad was done but it was never built. [1] Other equivalent classifications are:
The Lehigh and Hudson River Railway (L&HR) was the smallest of the six railroads that were merged into Conrail in 1976. It was a bridge line running northeast–southwest across northwestern New Jersey, connecting the line to the Poughkeepsie Bridge at Maybrook, New York, with Easton, Pennsylvania, where it interchanged with various other companies.
A larger locomotive with eight driving wheels was needed. This route was eventually taken by the T1 4-4-4-4 duplex locomotives, but the Great Depression and the large cost of electrification meant that PRR steam locomotive development effectively ceased after the K5 and M1a. The electrical department became the thrust of PRR locomotive policy ...