Welcome to the semi-official Lehigh Valley Railroad website
James Mack, Dispatcher - Site last updated 5/15/2002 Newspaper articles added
LVRR HISTORY HARDCORE INFO LINKS
Thanks for visiting the Lehigh Valley. She was a grand road that ran from New York to Buffalo serving the anthracite coal district of eastern Pennsylvania, on up to Finger Lakes in New York and terminating on the shores of Lake Erie.
Click on the photo links below to see what the LVRR looked like not too long ago...
Photos/people and places
My grandfather
at Bellwood.
Here we see towerman Charles Bealer in Easton tower (you can see the control panel).
The Wilkes- Barre Engine House with several steam engines in for service.
The Niagara Falls yard (the Lehigh Valley used NYC tracks to get there).
Bloomsbury depot with steam engine 406 in the late 1930s.
Photos/steam
Here is a drawing of the 444 Duplex from a book of
the day and scanned and colored by John McVey. John is the great great grandson
of Hapkins Thomas, the master mechanic of the Beaver Meadow Railroad.
The 551 engine was renumbered 2701 in 1905, then
rebuilt as engine 2.
We have a photo of the 2030 on a Lehigh Valley Veteran's
special to Harveys Lake Sept. 9, 1923 at Easton - 25 years later, long time
Lehigh Valley engineer John Brill poses with the 2030.
(Lehigh Valley Veterans are men who worked for the Lehigh Valley over 25
years).
A 100th anniversary (1946) streamliner.
The R1 steam
locomotive (#4028) were the workhorses of the Wyoming Division.
Here we have a wreck
with a steam locomotive on the M&H Division.
Jack Kirchgraber has sent me a photo of Lehigh Valley
locomotive 900 showing his grandfather Fred Kirchgraber who was the
engineer and the fireman Johnny Lux. This photo was taken in Buffalo between
1910 and 1918
Photos/diesel
Sayre locomotive line up and switching
car (credit John Manley)
A scale car
being used to check the Northampton Bath Railroad's scale
At South Easton locomotive 140
The 637 in the shop
Here we have the 627 with the red paint at the
Bethlehem Engine House (credit Bruce Leemann).
Look at the stripes
on this pair
Set of SW8's called pups
A set of C628s at MP71
A set of C420s
at Easton shop and at the Easton station
The only Baldwin road switcher the Lehigh Valley had the 200
In 1972, the Lehigh Valley was short of motor power and had a number of leased
locomotives which at times gave a mix of different roads like this set NF7A , LV F7B and BAR GP9 .
Here we see a set of RS11s, formerly of the PRR which
carry PRR numbers.
A set of RS11's coming into the Penn Central (PRR)
Bel-Del yards in Phillipsburg.
Derailed C628s
(also called Snowbirds) - they had long trucks that made them hard on the track
.
John Stewart of Railroad Net has
supplied photos to put on this page.
A Doodlebug next to Weatherly Shop.
The 8642 was a PRR ALCO RS11 on lease to the LVRR (it
was renumbered to 7642 after the PC merger).
Semi-retired passenger cars in work train service at Sayre.
I would like to thank Clint Chamberlin for the help of putting some of my photos on his Northeast Rail Site so I would have more room to put more photos here.
For the hardcore Lehigh Valley fan...
Names for pre-1889
Lehigh Valley steam locomotives had
Steam locomotive list by classes from about 1900 to end
of steam
Gas and diesel roster with footnotes for those so
inclined
The Pay Car was a very important to the Lehigh Valley employees here a
newspaper article about the pay car.
Here we have the story of the
first steam-powered train on what would be come the Lehigh Valley Railroad. The
man who was the brakeman on this trip tells this story. It is called Reminiscences of an Early Railroader. To go along with
this Richard Palmer has the 1863 Beaver Meadow Railroad
report to the State of Pennsylvania. This was the last full year before the
Beaver Meadow Railroad became part of the Lehigh Valley Railroad.
A write up
about the train the John
Wilkes From Railroad Magazine.
A number
of newspaper articles about the Black Diamond
Newspaper
articles about the end of the train the Maple Leaf
Newspaper
articles about Lehigh Valley Passenger Trains
Newspaper
article about an attempted to wreck a train on the
Southern Central Railroad a railroad that became part of the Lehigh Valley.
Links and addresses of other sites and references
LEHIGH
VALLEY RAILROAD ARCHIVE at RAILROAD.NET
Phillipsburg Railroad Historians
Phillipsburg, NJ had at one time five railroads (LVRR, CNJ, DL&W,
L&NE and PRR) in town. The Phillipsburg Railroad Historians are working on
setting up a museum, have a monthly meeting/slide show and put out a news
letter. Not only there museum but they also support the State of New Jersey
Railroad and Transportation Museum coming to Phillipsburg.
Phillipsburg Railroad Historians, Inc.
292 Chamber St.
Phillipsburg, NJ 08865
NRHS - Lehigh Valley Chapter
The Lehigh Valley Chapter of NRHS has a monthly meeting with a slide show - they also publish a newsletter. They have a Mack rail bus they are restoring.
Lehigh
Valley Chapter NRHS
C/O Gerhard Salomon
825 Fernwood Street
Emmaus, PA 18049
Hawk Mountain Railway Society
The Hawk Mountain Railway Historical Society is a NRHS chapter. It has a monthly meeting with a slide show, puts out a newsletter and sells slides and videotapes on the Lehigh Valley and other railroads.
Hawk Mountain Railway Historical Society, Inc.
P.O. Box 1182
Allentown, PA 18105-1182
Anthacite Railroad Historical Society
The ARHS covers all the railroads that serviced the anthracite mines and moved it to market.
ARHS
PO Box 519
Lansdale, PA 19446-0519
National Canal Museum has lectures, seminars, publications, a newsletter and displays that may or may not have any thing to do with the Lehigh Valley Railroad and papers to do with Robert Sayre and the Lehigh Valley Railroad that can be looked at with a appointment.
National Canal Museum
P.O. BOX 877
Easton, PA 18044
The Rochester Genesee Valley Railroad Museum has an ex-Lehigh Valley RS3M (Hammerhead). You can see what has been done with it and more.
There is a Lehigh Valley caboose being restored by Walt Gosciminski.
Existing Railway Stations in New York State has a list of stations that are left and a number of them are Lehigh Valley.
Railroading in the Northeast has a lot of good photos.
Mark-I Video has videos on the Lehigh Valley and have more planned.
Mark-I Video
351 Luhmann Dr.
New Milford, NJ 07646
Or Phone (201) 261-8444
Digital Image Works has a video 'The Lehigh Valley Over Penobscot Mountain."
Books
Lehigh Valley by Archer
Lehigh Valley Railroad - The New York Division by Mike Bednar
The Lehigh Valley in Color by Robert J. Yanosey
The Handsomest Trains in the World by Greenberg , Kramer & Gleichmann
The Lehigh Valley East of Mauch Chunk by Greenberg and Fischer
Railroads of the Lehigh River Valley by Randolph Kulp (Lehigh Valley Chapter NRHS)
Lehigh & New England by Randolph Kulp (Lehigh Valley Chapter NRHS)
Upstate Odyssey, The Lehigh Valley Railroad in Western New York by Mary Dann
ALCO's to Allentown by Thomas A. Biery
Let me know If you like what you see or if you see some
thing that's not right or what you would like to see on this page. You can
email me at lvrr@enter.net. Stop back soon
to see what we've added.
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