Alco RS3 Sayre, PA January 1976.

Eastbound exiting Vosburg Tunnel.

So here's a question. On May 15th, 1976, just a few weeks after Conrail started, both of these trains were in Akron at almost the same time. What would you do? They were close enough to meeting that one almost blocked the other. Would you go west after the C628 (#628) on the EL main where trains were becoming rarer every day with or go east with the matched pair of U23B's? At that time I had seen very few Lehigh Valley units. Unfortunately for an almost broke college senior with a tank full of fumes and only a few frames in the camera, it was only from one end of Akron to the other. But what an exciting day.

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Olympus EM-1 Mk III

Designed by Raymond Loewy to help boost Studebaker's waning sales in the early 60s, it is a timeless and classic design still in production off and on all these years by various makers...... These car photos are just a teaser.... I have hundreds more in my car sets-----take a look!!!

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Pool Sanctuary, Emmaus, PA

Olympus E-M1 Mk III

Ex-LV RS-3m 5487 idling at Allentown Engine Terminal June 1978

Ithaca Central Railroad southbound on the former Lehigh Valley at West Danby December 27, 2022 youtu.be/q6yMdT075kI

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA

The D&H acquired all of the Lehigh Valley Alco C420 April 1, 1976. On April 3rd, 1976 four former LV Alcos are north bound out of Bevier Street YArd.

Conrail, CR ex-L&HR C420's 2073-2072, on the ex-Lehigh Valley mainline at Steel City, Pennsylvania. April 4, 1978. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

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The eastbound Black Diamond crosses Plains Rd. at Rochester Jct., N.Y., led by 4-6-2 class K-6b Pacific 2097, circa 1940. Three K-6 Pacifics 2089, 2093, and 2097 were assigned to the Black Diamond, with streamlined shrouds designed by Otto Kuhler applied in 1940. No. 2097 was built by Alco in 1924. Withdrawn from passenger service in 1948, 2089 was scrapped in December 1951. Photo by Sam Grover, Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum Collection.

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Sayre yard was very busy this very cold January day, so the crew was told to tie down its train and report off duty.

Lehigh County, PA

Greeted by a few thousand Snow Geese yesterday as I pulled in the driveway. Grabbed a few shots from the front porch.

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Lehigh Valley Railroad K-5, 4-6-2 locomotive No. 2102 at Oak Island, New Jersey, on June 11, 1939. B&W photo source -- (Donald W. Furler photographer, Center for Railroad Photography and Art) posted to Facebook.

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