(rshsdepot) Black Diamond anniversary

["Paul Luchter" <luckyshow_@_mindspring.com>]

New York Times May 18, 1941

Black Diamond's Anniversary

   The Black Diamond, the Lehigh Valley Railroad's  daylight train between New York and Buffalo will be 45 years old today. The
original train, equipped with the latest type of "vestibuled coaches" and Pintsch gas lights, was named as the result of a
suggestion made by a hotel clerk in Toledo in a contest. The train is streamlined now.


New York Times  Jun. 9, 1896

Fast Train Delayed by Canalboat

  DOVER, N.J., June 8.-- Train No. 3 on the Delaware, Lackawanna and western Railroad, which reaches Dover at 11:11 o'clock A.M., is
scheduled to not stop here, because, it is said, the train is run in opposition to the Black Diamond Express of the Lehigh Valley
Railroad. North of the Dover station the Delaware, Lackawanna and western Railroad crosses the Morris Canal on a drawbridge at
grade, and the train has been delayed by an open draw to allow passage of a canalboat. the Morris Canal is leased by the Lehigh
Valley Railroad.

New York Times  Jan. 13, 1897

Fast Run on the Lehigh Valley

  PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 12.--The "Black Diamond Express" of the Lehigh Valley Railroad made, Jan. 7, another remarkable run between
Jersey City and Easton. The actual running time for a distance of sixty-six miles was 67 minutes, including a three-minute stop.
From South Plainfield to Easton, a distance of fifty-one miles, the run was made in 50 minutes; included in this distance is the
Musconetcong Mountain, which the train was obliged to climb on an ascending grade of 47 feet to the mile.

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