October 2009 was a busy month in LV-Survivor land!
5 updates for the month:
1.) LV 1000, passenger car in Marietta, Georgia, was sadly scrapped..I moved her data to the updates page: http://www.frontiernet.net/~scottychaos/updates.html
2.) Sadly another LV U23B is scrapped!
LV 511, stored for many years at RMDI in Pittston, PA (at the former LV coxton yard) is scrapped. The unit was in bad shape..
501 was scrapped at RMDI in 2005.
511 was scrapped at RMDI in 2009.
This leaves only one LV U23 remaining at RMDI, LV 510.
which is good shape! and was last operating in 2007.
the unit is now BDLX 2786. Will this be the LV U23B to go to Sayre?? hopefully!
LV Surviving locomotive count drops from 57 to 56 units..
Thanks to Travis Prevost for keeping an eye on the status of LV 511, and confirming when she was finally scrapped.
3.) the Third update for October 2009, 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..
Click here: http://forums.railfan.net/forums.cgi?bo ... 1256836046 for photos of LV 91414
4.)..could these be two of the missing Texas U-boats??? Their exact identity is not yet confirmed..but they could be LV 505, 506 or 507!!
click here:
http://www.railroad.net/forums/viewtopi ... 9&p=726658
For more details..
5.)
a new LV wood caboose has been discovered!
It is LVRR caboose # 97566.
Original a wood baggage car, converted to a Caboose at Sayre.
it was sold at auction on October 10, 2009, in Kempton, PA.
Caboose will be moved to _________ in November 2009.
check here:
http://forums.railfan.net/forums.cgi?bo ... 1254916193
for details and photos.
http://www.frontiernet.net/~scottychaos/
Scot
5 updates for the month:
1.) LV 1000, passenger car in Marietta, Georgia, was sadly scrapped..I moved her data to the updates page: http://www.frontiernet.net/~scottychaos/updates.html
2.) Sadly another LV U23B is scrapped!
LV 511, stored for many years at RMDI in Pittston, PA (at the former LV coxton yard) is scrapped. The unit was in bad shape..
501 was scrapped at RMDI in 2005.
511 was scrapped at RMDI in 2009.
This leaves only one LV U23 remaining at RMDI, LV 510.
which is good shape! and was last operating in 2007.
the unit is now BDLX 2786. Will this be the LV U23B to go to Sayre?? hopefully!
LV Surviving locomotive count drops from 57 to 56 units..
Thanks to Travis Prevost for keeping an eye on the status of LV 511, and confirming when she was finally scrapped.
3.) the Third update for October 2009, 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..
Click here: http://forums.railfan.net/forums.cgi?bo ... 1256836046 for photos of LV 91414
4.)..could these be two of the missing Texas U-boats??? Their exact identity is not yet confirmed..but they could be LV 505, 506 or 507!!
click here:
http://www.railroad.net/forums/viewtopi ... 9&p=726658
For more details..
5.)
a new LV wood caboose has been discovered!
It is LVRR caboose # 97566.
Original a wood baggage car, converted to a Caboose at Sayre.
it was sold at auction on October 10, 2009, in Kempton, PA.
Caboose will be moved to _________ in November 2009.
check here:
http://forums.railfan.net/forums.cgi?bo ... 1254916193
for details and photos.
http://www.frontiernet.net/~scottychaos/
Scot
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