Forty-Five Years Ago
On this day in 1976, the Erie-Lackawanna, Lehigh Valley, Jersey Central, Lehigh & Hudson River, Reading, Penn-Reading Seashore Lines, Buffalo Creek, Niagara Junction, ... (more)
The Lehigh Valley repainted caboose 95085 into a Bicentennial scheme and renumbered it 1776. On January 9, 1976, the Winter sun glints off caboose 1776 as it brings up the rear of NE-1 at the loc... (more)
During a visit to Lehighton, Pennsylvania, we found three light Lehigh Valley GP38-2’s idling on one of the main tracks. LV 323 was built in November, 1972, and after a long career on the Delawa... (more)
The Lehigh Valley’s first purchase of second-generation EMD power was an order for four GP38AC’s in 1971, which was followed by the purchase of twelve GP28-2’s a year later. Here one of the ... (more)
LV C628 641 appears to have gotten a head start on a Conrail patch job on August 31, 1975 at Coxton Yard, where it waits for a trip to the Sayre shops. Despite what appears to be a pretty serious... (more)