Lehigh Valley Survivors. Non-Locomotive Survivors.
Passenger and Freight Stations.
Flemington Jct. NJ depot
Flemington, NJ depot
Pittstown, NJ depot
Clinton, NJ depot - " I believe this is one of the structures in the Fox Lumber yard in Clinton, there is a building there almost identical to the structures in Flemington, Flemington Junction, and Pittston." - Dave Pearson
Bethlehem, PA - Company offices, and Bethlehem freight house which is used by NS BnB department.
Sayre PA, Passenger station. - tracks in use by NS.
Sayre PA, Freight Station, (a few relics of shop buildings still exist in the Sayre yard..not much though.)
Bethlehem, PA depot
Fullelrton, PA depot (check this one)
Easton, PA depot
Lehigh Gap depot, PA (check this one)
Bear Creek, PA depot (moved)
Weatherly, PA depot. in use as Weatherly town offices.
Bloomsbury, PA depot which is a fertilizer dealer and gets rail service.
Depot at Three bridges mp48 on the Lehigh Line which is a private residence.
P&L Jct depot- at Genesee Country Museum, Mumford NY.
Rochester depot- in place as a restaurant. (Dinosaur BBQ! mmmm!) (no tracks)
Honeoye Falls depot- in place as a residence
Hemlock
Geneva depot- in place and secured and frt hse. (no tracks)
Gorham,Rush,Naples (?)
McConnellsville depot- moved and is available for relocation
Cazenovia depot - and frt.hse in place
DeRuyter frt hse ,
New Woodstock depot- in place as a museum
Cortland depot - in place as restaurant also frt hse
Cuyler depot- in place as museum
Truxton depot - in place as town office
Aurora,Locke,Owasco Lake,Union Springs,East Ithaca,Groton,
Ithaca - in place as restaurant
East Ithaca station, moved about a mile from its original location.
Berkshire,Flemingville,Newark Valley,Owego,Horseheads,Breesport
Williamsville depot- in place under restoration last surviving complete depot from the Geneva & Buffalo
Buffalo depot - at Dingens & Ogden sts
Niagara Falls- Freight House
P&L Jct speeder shed- still at P&L junction.
Owego, NY depot
Cortland, NY depot
Other surviving stations in New York State, from all railroads.
http://ny.existingstations.com/
Roundhouses and other shop buildings.
White Haven, PA Roundhouse - "engine house, being converted to the town library.
There is a bridge 1/4 mile of there that still sports LV markings." - Dave Pearson
Cortland, NY Roundhouse
South Plainfield, NJ -Yard Office,
Packerton Jct. car shop.
East Mauch Chunk frieght house.
Weatherly, PA shops
Various buildings and tracks at the Coxton Yards, near Pittston, PA., now owned by the Reading and Northern.
Hazleton PA - yard office and single stall engine house.
Two buildings located at old Richards Yard (very private property) both are lettered Lehigh Valley
Five LV-era (built by the LV) shop buildings still exist in the Sayre yard:
The hammer shop/ assembly hall
The passenger car shop
The storage house
Upholstery shop
Lumber shop
(there are also several newer buildings now inside the Sayre yard, built since 1976)
Cabooses
LVRRSurvivingCabooses, sorted by number
LVRRSurvivingCabooses, sorted by location
Passenger cars
Eight known surviving passenger cars!
1.) LV 353 business car (observation) at Steamtown -(2003)
2.) LV 1551 "Black Diamond" used as business office by NYSW, Cooperstown NY -(2003)
3.) LV 1552 "White Diamond" at PA Railroad Museum, Strasburg PA. -(2003)
(1551 & 1552 were the Solarium observation cars of the 1927 edition of the Black Diamond.
4.) LV 1553 - "Harriet" was a John Wilkes pullman heavweight coach, was owned by the ARHS, given to the SRNJ, in danger of being scrapped in 2010-2011! click here for details.
5.) LV 1554 - "Emerald" was a John Wilkes pullman heavweight coach, stored in Winslow Jct, NJ, owned by the ARHS -(2011) (info link)
6.) "Queen Anne" currently for sale as the "City of Peru" by Ozark Mountain Rail Car, Forsyth MO-(2005)
The "Queen Anne" was one of the observation cars for the 1925 Black Diamond.
STILL for sale in August 2005!
lots of photos here.
Update! 2010. the "Queen Anne" was sold to the "New Orleans Public Belt" railroad, and moved to New Orleans. But the fate of the car is again in doubt! as the NOPB is under investigation for alleged misuse of funds.
"A third coach, the City of Peru, remains unfinished and sits in storage, though more than $1 million has been spent on its renovation, according to Rafael Goyeneche, the crime commission president." - Source - (2010)
7.) LV 94141 - LV "Tool Car" 94141 exists in Ithaca NY.
with the small display at the LVRR Ithaca station. (was once the "Station Resturant", is now (in 2009) a Chemung Canal Bank branch. Faint "Lehigh Valley" lettering is visible across the top, under the paint, and a road number is faintly visible on both sides..(you can see the raised outline of the old lettering under the newer green paint..the lettering was simply painted over, but thankfully not removed before painting..)
It is LV car 94140... looking through "Lehigh Valley Railroad Passenger Cars, photo and diagram book No.1 " LV 94140 ended its LV career as a "service car"..its a coach converted to work train service at Sayre..
94140 began life as an 800 or 900 series coach, built by Pullman in 1914.
I dont yet know its original number..
8.) LV Number unknown.
The National Museum of Transport in Saint Louis has coach C&EI #405, which they state is a former Lehigh Valley coach. Unfortunately no one seems to have any data on its original LV number. but its quite well documented it is in fact a LV coach! A sale record from the LV to the C&EI has been found.
CHICAGO & EASTERN ILLINOIS #405
Coach (steel) 1911
Former Lehigh Valley car; all-steel construction.
This coach is for sale! in 2009-2010.
NOTICE: Four Historic Passenger Cars Available
Categories: Railroad Cars - Passenger
No Photo
Ad Number: 12721
Date Posted: 04/28/2010
Contact: Museum of Transportation
St. Louis, MO
USA
Telephone(s):
E-Mail: Reply to Ad
Web Site:
Description
The Museum of Transportation is accepting proposals for the acquisition of four historic passenger railroad cars deaccessioned from its collections. The cars include a 19th-century Frisco business car, a Pullman business car, a Pullman dome car, and a former Lehigh Valley/C&EI heavyweight coach.
Please contact us to obtain a copy of the request for proposals.
Possible coach survivor, status unknown, LV Number unknown.
The Museum of Transportation LV coach discussions led to the discussion of another possible surviving LV coach!
although it is not confirmed if its surviving.
or where it is located, if it is loacted.
This mystery LV coach perhaps once operated with the Clinhfield RR excursion train.
"One of these LV coaches ended up on the Clinchfield ex ursion train. It ended up at the Kentucky Railway Museum. It was later sold to a private party." quote by "wilkinsd" from the RYPN thread.
This LV coach might still be out there somewhere! :)
More digging is required.
Sadly a LV passenger car was scrapped recently. :(
see the updates page for the sad story of LV 1000.
RDC
One of the LV's two RDC's still survives:
40 - is preserved at the Strasburg Railroad.
41 - Now scrapped. :(
2010: RDC 41 isnt doing so well, she is languishing in Canada. ex-CP RDC-5 9306; ex-CP RDC-2 9116; nee LV 41 "IRSI 6143. 41 was sold to CP and numbered 9116. CP rebuilt it to RDC1 specs(classed RDC2m/RDC5), renumbered it 9306. Sold to VIA Rail Canada, who overhaulled it in 1980 and renumbered it 6143. In 2000 VIA Rail sold it to Industrial Rail Services Inc. in Moncton, NB. IRSI will be using the car for rebuild fodder." link
2017: Update! Sadly RDC #41 was scrapped in Canada in 2017.
Freight cars
Boxcar - Crane Iron site, Catasauqua, PA (still in LVRR paint)
2 bay hopper, Temple, PA
LV boxcar # 8221 is at Winslow Jct, NJ. owned by either the SRNJ or the ARHS.
The "map" boxcar, South Plainfield, NJ
BR&W has at least one 50' LV Plug Door box car still in LV Colors - Ringoes, NJ
A red and a green green box car in the Bethlehem engine terminal, and sitting in a gondola is a LV tank car (still lettered) no frame with the car.
LV boxcar 66523, still in full LV lettering! Hamburg, NY
Wood LV boxcar, Coplay PA (details here)
Wood-sheathed box car 75073 is preserved at the RR Museum of Pennsylvania.
"The RCTHS has a complete LV 65' gondola parked at Temple Pa. with their collection. It is former LV # 34317. It is complete right to the trucks with LV 34317 cast into them". -Robert Hoegg.
Pemberton Historical Trust - 2 Bay Hopper (came out of John Roebling Sons works in Roebling, NJ).
The Manchester boxcars:
6 LVRR boxcars were in Manchester, NY for many years. 4 steel and 2 wood sided cars. (webpage with photos! click here)
some were used for storage by a grain facility.
Update on the Manchester boxcars:
One of the steel cars was scrapped in 2007, and one of the wood cars was moved to nearby Victor.
(the wood car is currently (October 2009) sitting on the old NYC remnant in Victor)
The second wood car in Manchester was scrapped in September, 2008.
This leaves three steel LV boxcars in Manchester, and no wood cars, as of October 2009.
Click here: http://www.railroad.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=89 for more info.
Other Rolling Stock
(now scapped) R&N had the "Big Hook" #96550 which in the last years of the LV was based in Lehighton, behind the warehouse. Now it is on R&N, but not owned by R&N. rolled over onto the operators side.But as far as I know IS NOT SCRAPED. (Pick) (2003)
Update..OCtober 2009..Sadly the "Big Hook" LV 96550 has been scrapped, at RMDI around 2004.
more info:
http://www.railroad.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=89&t=57282
http://www.railroad.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=89&t=46934&p=687030
Bridges
Leroy NY -LV main-Buttermilk Falls bridge- concrete arch was just recycled to carry gravel trucks..
Honeoye creek bridge, - LV main- just West of Rochester Junction..used as rail trail bridge. no track.
Mainline bridge over Genesee River, south of Rochester. no track, now part of a railtrail.
Towanda PA. Susquehanna River bridge, LV main, in use by Lehigh Railway..
Athens PA. Chemung River bridge, LV main, in use by Lehigh Railway..
Sayre PA. (South Waverly, north end of yard). Shepards creek bridge, LV main, in use by NS.
Sayre PA. Shepards creek bridge, Auburn Division, just east of the old shops, no tracks, in use as automobile bridge.
("Shepards Creek" seems to be a Valley-only name..im from Waverly so thats the name I use! ;)
on maps it usually named "Cayuta Creek")
Newark, NJ - Brige over Freugenhysen Ave in Newark still has LV markings on it.
Westfield, N.J. The LV main line bridge over Westfield Ave.still carries a small painted on LV diamond on both sides of the bridge. -very visible.
(LOTS of bridges are surviving! probably hundreds. maybe not worth listing..however I will add bridges if anyone sends them in!)
Map of existing LV track, in use or not in use, and what railroad if in use..
Barge
Lehigh Valley barge #79 still exists, as a waterfront museum in Brooklyn.
"Not sure if anyone already mentioned it but there is a former Lehigh Valleybarge that is undergoing restoration. Originally LV #79, the wooden hulled, wood deck house barge is owned by a private individual who is in the process of restoring it. Last I heard the 88-year old barge is in dry dock in Waterford, NY along the Hudson River. This is the last survivor of its type."
John Komanesky
It has its own webpage!
http://www.waterfrontmuseum.org/drydock.htm
in 2002 the barge was towed up the Hudson to Warwick, NY to undergo drydock repairs.
Tug Boats
3 LV Tugboats still exist, of the 6 post-war LV tugs.
Bethlehem
The LVRR Tug "Bethelem" still exists.
She is in South Carolina, and operates with Moran as the "Christopher B. Turecamo",
out of Charleston.
1953 - built by Jakobson Shipyard, Oyster Bay, Long Island, NY, for the Lehigh Valley Railroad.
Hull no. 346
O/N 0266784
later became "Shannon Smith" for New Orleans' Crescent Towing & Salvage Co.
and is currently the "Christopher B. Turecamo" operating for Moran at Charleston, SC.
Cornell
The LVRR Tug "Cornell" still exists. She spent her LV career on the New York City waterfront. Today she is back home in New York City, after almost 60 years as a working tug. She is still named "Cornell" today.
1949 - The Cornell was built at Jakobson Shipyard, Oyster Bay, Long Island, NY
O/N 0259949
1950 - went into service with the LV in New York harbor.
1971 - Sold to Ross Towing of Boston, and spent the next 30 years working around Boston.
- Owned by Boston Towing & Transportation.
2003 - Sold to Tibbets Towing and moved south to Maryland.
2007 - Sold to Lehigh Maritime, and moved again, this time back to her original home, the Hudson river and New York City.
during 2007 she was restored and repainted in her original LV Cornell Red paintscheme!
The LVRR Tug "Wilkes Barre" still exists. (maybe)
1949 - The Wilkes Barre was built at Jakobson Shipyard, Oyster Bay, Long Island, NY
O/N 0258938
The Wilkes Barre was last known as the "Julia C. Moran" and is believed to now be in Mexico. While trying to find out more info on the Wilkes Barre, I discovered there was a much earlier tug also named the "Julia C. Moran", built in 1906! There seems to be some confusion over the tugboat name "Julia C. Moran" because some on-line tugboat sources indicate the Julia was built new for Moran in 1951 (by Jakobson) So was the LV's Wilkes Barre actually a THIRD Julia C. Moran?
First, there was the 1906 Julia C. Moran, also mentioned in a 1916 New York times article available on-line. That first Julia is not in question. The question concerns the second, and possibly third Julia.
Was there only one 1950's Julia? or Two? Was the first Julia built new for Moran, and the second Julia was the Wilkes Barre? or were they one and the same? (which would mean the Julia was not built new for Moran, but was built for the LV) or was the LV Wilkes Barre never actually a Julia C. Moran at all? and that info is simply wrong?? it is all uncertain at this point.
Thats three of the six LV "post-war" tugs surviving, the other three:
Hazleton
The Hazleton was sunk on November 6, 2004, off the coast of New Jersey to become part of an artificial reef.
1950 - The Hazleton was built at Jakobson Shipyard, Oyster Bay, Long Island, NY for the LVRR.
ship number 259281.
The Hazleton's last operating name was the "Captian Bill" of the company McAllister Tug, she was renamed the "Veronica M" just before she was sunk, and retains that name in her new "life" as a sunken artificial reef.
click here for photos of the Hazleton being sunk.
and here for some photos of the Hazleton as a reef.
Lehigh
The Lehigh was later the Swan Point
and was last known as the JB Eskridge.
October 19, 2002 - The Lehigh (as the JB Eskridge) was sunk in the Atlantic ocean off of Virginia Beach to become part of an artificial reef.
Capmoore
The Capmoore was out of service in Charlestown, Mass. (August 2005)
In 2005, Her future was uncertain, and she could possibly be scrapped.
see this thread for more info:
http://www.railroad.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=670
Sadly, the Capmoore was scrapped in 2010.
Doodlebugs!
SEVEN Lehigh Valley Doodlebugs still survive in 2003!
they are owned by Sperry Rail, and are track inspection cars.
LV 14 - now Sperry 123
LV 15 - now Sperry 128
LV 20 - now Sperry 124
LV 26 - now Sperry 125
LV 27 - now Sperry 131
LV 28 - now Sperry 130
LV 29 - now Sperry 129
Here is the Sperry roster: http://www.railfanusa.com/rosters/srs.html
And here are some recent photos of the LV cars: http://www.northeast.railfan.net/sperry.html
Sayre Shops Parade Model!
Exciting news! October 2010.
It has been known, from photographic evidence, that the Sayre Shops built at least two large, scale models
of steam locomotives, believed to be for parade floats, and/or perhaps for a World's Fair.
One of the models is of LVRR 4-6-2 Atlantic No. 2479. The prototype No. 2479 was built at Sayre about 1911, as a member of the LV's final class of Atlantics,(and the only class of Atlantics "home built" by the LV)
A scale model of the locomotive was also built at Sayre, presumably around the same timeframe, and a photo of the model, as a parade float, is known:
The fate of the Sayre Shops models has been unknown, until now! one of them has been discovered intact! In October 2010, "Dominic" posted a question, and photos, about a large steam locomotive model he owns!
see this thread for photos and details:
http://forums.railfan.net/forums.cgi?board=LV;action=display;num=1287897981
This is clearly the Sayre built model of Atlantic 2479! almost 100 years old!
Some sleuthing on that thread theorizes that the model was perhaps on display at the 1915 Worlds Fair in San Francisco, California. Perhaps after the fair, it never left Califorina, and has remained there to this day. Dominic never did respond with his plans for the model, but hopefully it will remain intact.
If anyone knows if Dominic ever sold it, and where the model is currently located, please let me know! Legions of LV fans are very interested in it!
Ideally it would be great if it could return to a LV museum, ideally in Sayre, the place of its birth, but just the fact that it exists is amazing! :)
Update! 2023 - The Sayre parade model locomotive is not actually in California, it is located in Poughkeepsie NY.
If anyone has a photo of anything on this site and would like to have it included, please send it in! with date, location and photographer. (with full credit to the photographer of course..)
also, if you know of something not yet on this list that should be on it, please let me know.. I do not claim this list to be complete! ;) (but would like it to be as complete as possible..)
Scot Lawrence
Page started February 2003.
Last update to this page: June 21, 2023
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