One of two Lehigh Valley C420’s to retain its 1964 as-delivered “yellow jacket” paint scheme, now-D&H 413 leads a train west (D&H north) from Allentown, Pennsylvania. When the D&H inherited C420’s, GP38-2’s and GP39-2’s from the Lehigh Valley and Reading as part of the Conrail formation, these locos were hastily patched with D&H identification, and the quality of the patch paint was not very good.
Here, less than a year after being rebranded, the small “The D&H” script logos applied to the front and sides of the short hood, and the sides of the long hood, are still intact, but the grey paint covering the huge block “Lehigh Valley” is already heavily worn, revealing the original owner. The 413, which served the LV for about 12 years, will soon be painted in a solid blue D&H scheme, and will serve its new owner for a dozen years before becoming A&M 60.
Although the paint is as-delivered, the LV C420’s originally had metal cutout LV flag logos applied to the sides of the short hood, they were later removed by the Lehigh Valley. LV 414, now owned by the Delaware-Lackawanna, has these flags, but I believe they are painted directly on the hood.
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