{"id":40669,"date":"2024-12-05T06:06:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T11:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=40669"},"modified":"2024-12-05T09:03:41","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T14:03:41","slug":"lehigh-valley-126","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/lehigh-valley-126\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh Valley 126"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On a brief visit to Hollidaysburg in late October, Kris and I stopped by the Everett Railroad yard where we found Everett’s former Lehigh Valley EMD switcher number 126 catch the midday sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was among the prewar EMC switchers that Lehigh Valley sent back to EMD in the 1950s to be remanufactured into ‘new’ locomotives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the Everett’s website, this locomotive was built as a NW1 in May 1938 and returned to EMD for remanufacture in 1956. Afterwards it was described as an SW9M. It served Conrail, and later a variety of owners. The Kiski Junction Railroad of Pittsburgh repainted the locomotive into Lehigh Valley colors prior to Everett acquiring it a few years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During my researching an article on Philadelphia’s Silveliners for Classic Trains Magazine, I found an EMD ad from June 1958 that features Lehigh Valley’s 123 and 125, locomotives similarly remanufactured about the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was a coincidental find, as the ad appeared on the backside of the same page as the Silverliner article. I scanned the ad in two sections and then rejoined them to the best of my ability using EazyDraw and Lightroom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The challenge of this exercise is that I was working from an old bound volume of Railway Age and this wasn’t conducive to scanning on a traditional flatbed scanner. Portions of the ad were hidden by the gatefold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Incidentally, Lehigh Valley 124 that was rebuilt as part of the same program also survives and this works for the Landisville Railroad near Lancaster, Pa. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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