Friends, It is with great pleasure that I inform you that the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation upgraded their grant offering by $90,000 enabling the...
ARHS is trying an experiment - selling models on eBay. These are the same kits that we sell at shows, and offer through the mail on the ARHS web site. We...
J: I have posted some photos that I took back in the 1960's of the Rochester yard. I took one out the window from the 21st floor of the Xerox tower. It is...
Greetings: I am trying to model the Naples brach in HO scale. About 30 years ago, before I moved to Georgia, I photographed a number of buildings and...
Good Evening Larry, Flags, Diamonds & Statues (the ARHS publication) vol 5, #4 (March 84) has an article on the Naples Branch. And there just happens to be one...
Hi: I am Larry DeBert and I just retired after being a computer software developer and consultant for 40+ years. I was brought up in Rochester NY, where I...
Welcome, Larry. It was nice to see some new LV photos on George's web site. Ed Schaller Lehigh Valley Railroad Modeler http://www.lvrrmodeler.net Hi: I am...
for those interested, i uploaded a photo of a LV railroad barge anchored here in Red Hook Brooklyn, New York. I understand this is currently undergoing...
Hello, My small model train club is trying to raise funds by selling decals for Reading T1 4-8-4 steam engines. They are exactly like the set of HO scale...
The current LOCOMOTIVE QUARTERLY , for those who do not get it, has a photo essay on LV 4-8-4s. It also has a section of images from the glassplates shot by...
Empire Northern has just announced a Limited Run of the Lehigh Valley F7A/F3B in the Tuscan Red 4" stripe scheme that was used in the later 60's until Conrail...
I have one copy of the December 1950 Trains Magazine for sale; this copy is in excellent condition: nice clean cover, no torn,worn, or creased pages. The...
I hope you will forgive me for posting to all the groups that have to do with the Lehigh Valley. A lot of you are on all the groups too but the person who may...
James E. Mack
lvrr@...
Aug 28, 2004 12:29 am
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Intermountain has just announced that they are producing N Scale FTs for Lehigh Valley; there's no pic up on their web page yet, but I'm trying to discover...
Hi Dennis, According to Carl Steckler, in his book on the "Lehigh Valley Railroad Diesel Paint Schemes (1925-1976)", the LVRR purchased FTA units in numbers...
... Thanks very much! The page http://www.enter.net/~lvrr/delo.htm indicates that they were renumbered from 500A 500B etc; is this accurate, and when did this...
Hello, Don't overlook the fact that the FT's when new had no lettering on the "B" units, just the striping. This is evident in several photos in the book ...
Great minds think alike, the B&O did both things the same with their new FTs. Since what diesels are best for is starting up and slow speed running they used...
There's a new website of interest to those modeling LV. Go to www.eddystonelocomotives.com It contains newly released M 35 camelback 2-8-0s in HO as well...
Maybe I`m wrong in my thinking. Not to put down your work and models but wasn`t Eddystone locomotives the company who made Reading 4-8-4 T1 models for the ...
You may be thinking of Bradford Locomotive Works. However this site sure looks like it has much the same stuff that BLW did back then....
Mike&Debra
trainnut@...
Sep 12, 2004 4:22 pm
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Anybody have any idea what an original LV RR flag might be worth. It was hung in the corporate office cafeteria in Bethlehem....
Mike&Debra
trainnut@...
Sep 12, 2004 10:17 pm
277
When you are ready to sell your flag let me know. I`m very interested, what is the size of it and condition? [Non-text portions of this message have been...
Hi Folks, just though I would drop a note to say that the LV Tuscan F7A/F3B unist will be on hand the first week of November. These are Stewart F units,...
Subject Re: Rob's comments about Reading T-1s by Bradford Locomotive Works. There were some problems with some of the Reading T-1s. Most were fine. The ...
What happened to the chat room ? Nothing came up today. Does this mean absolutely no input, or technical difficulties, or what? In any event, have a good...
Hi Dave, I think that I have been on this chat list for almost a year now. There are not only days that pass without a posting sometimes weeks pass by without...
After 28 years we have new railfans who were not here to see the Lehigh Valley and we have lost ones who did see it. Now add to this the number of list that...
James E. Mack
lvrr@...
Sep 17, 2004 9:37 pm
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Jim, I'm still looking for info on those LV wrecks. May soon have an archive for you, but it probabily isn't on line and could require going to the archive to...
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