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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 ...
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
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.
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.
The Reading T-1 was a class of 4-8-4 "Northern" type steam locomotives owned by the Reading Company. They were rebuilt from thirty "I-10sa" class 2-8-0 "Consolidation" type locomotives between 1945 and 1947. Out of the thirty rebuilt, four survive in preservation today, those being numbers 2100, 2101, 2102, and 2124.
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.
Along the way, railfans will marvel at the power of steam locomotive #2102 as it pulls the train upgrade through Lehigh Gorge State Park, over Penobscot Mountain, through the Wyoming Valley, and ...
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.