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RE: (rshsdepot) Lehigh Valley sojourn, part 2

Subject: RE: (rshsdepot) Lehigh Valley sojourn, part 2
From: "Don Dorflinger" <donnielee46_@_hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 16:30:18 +0000
In-Reply-To: <005c01c5e27c$3c32a020$8329f7a5_@_paul>
Last view captioned as the Reading RR Station in Bethlehem is actually the Jersey Central passenger depot.






From:  "Paul Luchter" <luckyshow_@_mindspring.com>
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Subject:  (rshsdepot) Lehigh Valley sojourn, part 2
Date:  Sat, 5 Nov 2005 21:46:04 -0500
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>The Lehigh Valley Railroad, continued, part 1:
>http://www.instoneinc.com/gallery/Lehigh_Valley_RR-I.jpg
>
>[but first...] station: Nanticoke, Pa PRR depot after the flood, 
1910:
>http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nepaphotos/Feb/1902%20Flood%20Nanticoke%20PA%20RR%20Depot.jpg
>
>Among the crew
>The flagman too,
>With Phoebe's trip
>Has much to do
>His flag and light
>Guide her aright
>Upon the Road of Anthracite:
>http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nepaphotos/Feb/1910%20LACKAWANNA%20RAILROAD.jpg
>
>LVRR station: Sayres, Pa. (can you read the message, it seems interesting?):
>http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nepaphotos/Feb/Sayre%20PA%20Lehigh%20Valley%20Passenger%20Station%201920.jpg
>
>DL&W station: Scranton, Pa.:
>http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nepaphotos/Feb/Scranton%20PA%20Lacka%20Station%20Birds%20Eye%20View.jpg
>
>Lehigh Valley Terminal Bond, 
1894:
>http://www.eoldstocks.com/lehigh%20valley%20terminal%20railway.JPG
>
>This one's great:
>http://www.eoldstocks.com/lehighvtrvign.JPG
>
>LV map: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/1884_PRR_RDG_LVRR.jpg/300px-1884_PRR_RDG_LVRR.jpg
>
>much better (& earlier) Lehigh Valley Railroad map:
>http://timetables.m72express.com/scans/LV-Map1870.jpg
>
>The caption to the following photo reads "Erie Daniel Willard, O&W Ontario, Lehigh Valley Perth Amboy and Lackawanna's Scranton at
>Vineyard Haven, Martha's Vineyard due to ice.:
>http://www2pb.ip-soft.net/railinfo/gifs/steam-tugs.jpeg
>
>no year, full details see: http://www2pb.ip-soft.net/railinfo/car-floats/lehigh-valley-tugs.html
>
>LV engine #815 2-8-0 tank, at Perth Amboy, New Jersey no 
date:
>http://www.cvrma.org/pictures/LV/lehigh-valley_815_2-8-0_tank_perth-amboy_nj.jpg
>
>LV 475 4-8-2:
>http://www.cvrma.org/pictures/LV/LEHIGH-VALLEY_RR_475-4-8-2.jpg
>
>Here next to CNJ terminal on Communipaw the Lehigh Valley Railroad in its last days in Jersey City at the car float yard, the WTC
>behind:
>http://www2pb.ip-soft.net/railinfo/gifs/jcity1.gif
>see a shot of the float yard in JC on this page:
>http://www.state.nj.us/dep/parksandforests/parks/liberty_state_park/liberty_crrnj.html
>
>The Lehigh Valley Yards at 27th Street in 1928; the next year the Lehigh-Starrett Building would rise. Every other building
>mentioned in this picture still stands, the B&O warehouse, the storage building where the railroads passed through under the arch.
>North of 30th Street would today see the Javits 
Center. The elevated west side line had not started:
>http://www2pb.ip-soft.net/railinfo/gifs/west-side-yards-1928.html
>
>late 1960s: http://www2pb.ip-soft.net/railinfo/gifs/GL-Slides/lv-sw1-112-27th-st.jpeg
>
>Lehigh Valley Railroad also had a carfloat in the Bronx at Bronx Terminal, the locomotive 100 almost looks like a  dummy locomotive:
>http://www2pb.ip-soft.net/railinfo/gifs/IR28B.jpg
>
>The Lehigh Valley Railroad had three car float yards in New York City, they interchanged freight (cars) with the Brooklyn Eastern
>District Terminal Railway, the BEDT in Greenpoint, the Long Island Railroad at Long Island City, two of the car float towers still
>standing as landmarks today, those via car float and by rail with the following railroads:
>Central Railroad of New Jersey, in Jersey City, the Staten Island 
Rapid Transit, SIRT, at Cranford, NJ, and the West Shore Railroad
>of the New York Central, nit sure where the interchange was.
>
>LV:
>http://www.nps.gov/stea/graphics/painting353.jpg
>
>LVRR station: New Market, NJ: http://www.jhalpin.com/metuchen/pics/newmarketrr.jpg
>Metuchen Shuttle #301 at PRR station, 1907:
>http://www.jhalpin.com/metuchen/pics/trolley.jpg
>Brunswick Traction Co. at Main & Spring, Metuchen:
>http://www.jhalpin.com/metuchen/pics/mainspr.jpg
>LV station, Amboy Avenue, Metuchen:
>http://www.jhalpin.com/metuchen/pics/lehigh.jpg
>The amazing Pennsylvania RR station at Lake St., Metuchen:
>http://www.jhalpin.com/metuchen/pics/prrlake.jpg
>
>PRR station, Metuchen, 1908: http://www.jhalpin.com/metuchen/pics/metuchenrr1908.jpg
>
>Some people say that our Dummy 
don't run,
>But listen and I'll tell you what our Dummy dun done;
>Left New Brunswick at half past one,
>And arrived at Metuchen before the setting of the sun.
>
>On the Dummy, on the Dummy Line,
>Rise Shine and pay your fine;
>Rise Shine and pay your fine,
>When you're riding on the Dummy,
>On the Dummy, Dummy Line,:
>http://www.jhalpin.com/metuchen/pics/dummyln.jpg
>
>Through service to Toronto, LVRR and Connections, 1930:
>http://www.jhalpin.com/metuchen/pics/lv_map_1930.jpg
>
>LV depot, Lockwood, NY: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ny/tioga/postcards/lwldep.jpg
>LV 571: http://www.jacksonvilleny.com/old_photos16.html
>LV depot, Jacksonville, NY: http://www.jacksonvilleny.com/lehigh_depot40.jpg
>LV station, Shenandoah, Pa: 
http://www.tuslogdet4.com/shenandoah/postcards/ebay_13a.jpg
>LV 4-4-4: http://www.toltecimages.com/trains/later%20images/2662.jpg
>LV loco at Leighton, Pa.: http://www.toltecimages.com/trains/2311.jpg
>LV 551 on turntable: http://www.enter.net/~lvrr/lv551.jpg
>
>LV 2030 at Easton, pa w/ Veterans Special 1923:
>http://www.enter.net/~lvrr/2030.JPG
>LV CV20s at Easton station: http://www.enter.net/~lvrr/lv411a.jpg
>
>LV RDC (Doodlebug) at Weatherly Shops: http://www.enter.net/~lvrr/lv_weath.jpg
>LV 900: http://www.enter.net/~lvrr/lv900.jpg
>LV streamliner 1946: http://www.enter.net/~lvrr/ct.jpg  for 100th anniversary of the LV
>
>The Lehigh Valley Traction 
Company:
>http://www.macungie.org/images/tschedule14.jpg
>http://www.macungie.org/images/transfer.jpg
>http://www.macungie.org/images/tschedule09.jpg
>LV Transit Liberty Bell Limited, Allentown to Philadelphia:
>http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/lvt1020.jpg
>LV Transit Line Car: http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/lvtR3.jpg
>LV station, Allentown: http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/tr_allentown.jpg
>CNJ station, Allentown:
>http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/cnj/cnj-allentown-ava.jpg
>
>Reading station, Bethlehem (I have good slides of this):
>http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/beth.jpg
>
>
>
>
>
>
>=================================
>The Railroad Station Historical Society maintains a database of existing
>railroad structures at: http://www.rrshs.org
>


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The Railroad Station Historical Society maintains a database of existing
railroad structures at: http://www.rrshs.org

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- (rshsdepot) Lehigh Valley sojourn, part 2
  - From: "Paul Luchter" <luckyshow_@_mindspring.com>
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