Last known Lehigh & New England passenger car to be moved, restored Office Car 100

DUNCANSVILLE, Pa. – A rare anthracite-region steel heavyweight office car has been rescued by the Everett Railroad, which intends to restore it for first-class service on its excursion trains.

The only known surviving passenger car from the Lehigh & New England Railroad, car No. 100 was built by American Car & Foundry Co. in September 1925, serving the L&NE until the road’s 1961 abandonment, after which the car was used by a contractor who tore up the track.

The 75-foot-long, 60-ton car was sold in 1964 to become part of the “Paoli Local” restaurant at Strafford, Pa., on the historic Pennsylvania Railroad main line, route of the PRR’s Philadelphia commuter-train fleet of that same name. The owner painted and lettered it in Pennsylvania Railroad livery and gave it the number 605. Several photographs of the car being moved to the restaurant site are on the online archive of the Radnor Historical Society.
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