Overview of the LV engine pit at Oak Island. Ansco color/color corrected in P/S

The CMSL operated F7's will take a seat on the 100th Aniversary of Tuckahoe tower and let the RDC's operate on the former PRSL Ocean City branch under their own power.

One of the "off the shelf" paint schemes, offered by EMC to new customers back when #112 was delivered to the LV in 1939, still in its original as delivered paint in October 1950. Ansco color/col... (more)

Delivered earlier in that year, LV 560 gets a hand wash at the Oak Island engine terminal. I was chased out of there after these shots on account of high anxiety at the start of the Korean War. ... (more)

Another perspective with a PA-1 in my viewfinder at Oak Island on that day back in 1950. Ansco color/color corrected

I wandered into the Lehigh Valley engine terminal at Oak Island and managed to snap off a few shots before I was chased off due to the heightened security concerns coinciding with the start of the... (more)

Rounding out my series of wreck cleanup shots is likely LV #23, a "no name" train, westbound for Lehighton, Pa., passing the cleanup at restricted speed. Thanks to Railfan & Railroad for help ID'... (more)

Since nobody seemed to be bothered by me shooting pictues, I went in a little closer and got this. Maybe you will be able to recognize a long lost relative who worked for the LV at the time.

In this picture, you see a set of bogies being lifted by a derrick. Its a study in RR employee hierarchy of the day...the workers in the foreground, and the bosses, who appear to be standing in t... (more)

Continuing my series of shots from a LV wreck cleanup, in this view I have crossed the tracks and we watch as a crane has a load of ties out of the gondola ready to drop. The man in the foregroun... (more)

In those days the RRs cleaned up their own messes. A LV work train with 2 cranes is dispatched to clear a path.

In this view, another steam engine, LV 3189 joins the 5218 in work train detail clearing up a freight derailment on the LV main at Union. I was a 17 year old high school kid with my Bolsey camera... (more)