by scottychaos
I just scanned some of my old slides!
Here is a sad photo essay for you all..
Lehigh Valley Railroad.
Sayre, PA Locomotive shops, the "Big Shops" building.
1904-1988
Destruction of the Big Shops started a few days before November 1, 1987.
I dont have the exact day, but I arrived either one or two days later.
I *think* I arrived the next day..so it probably started October 31, 1987.
To begin the demolition process, they took one of the traveling cranes, pushed it all the way back to the rear of the building, atached a cable to it, ran the cable out the *front* of the building, attached a big MAck truck to the other end..got the truck up and running, pulling the traveling crane on its rails along the length of the building..
as the crane built up speed and momentum, it CRASHED through the front of the shops and fell to the ground!!
I missed that actual event..I think I read about it in the paper the next day.
When I arrived on November 1st, the crane was still sitting there on the ground and no further work had been done yet..
I was 18 when I took these photos, and had graduated from Highschool a few months before.
Now its January, 1988.
the building half gone:
May 1988..
its all but over..
Thats it for the shops!
Time marches ever on...
Here are a few bonus pics of the model railroad that was in the Sayre station in the mid-80's!
at the "Valley Railroad Museum"..
the first railroad Museum in the Sayre station.
approx 1984-1990-ish.
(I was gone away to college by then..I dont remember exactly what year they left the station)
somewhere I have good "overview" shots showing big portions of the overall layout..havent dug those up yet.
the railroad had the Sayre yard, Athens, and the Erie and DL&W in Waverly. era was approx 1950's.
HO scale.
Sadly, the model railroad had to be totally destroyed when the museum was kicked out of the station in the early 90's..
thats my LV SD40-2!
Under the Sayre walkbridge..
those are all my engines! I painted and decaled all of them.
Most of my engines "lived" at the museum for several years.
I still have them all! (even though I havent done any HO modeling since 1989!)
thats it!
hope you enjoyed this little trip down memory lane..
Hard to believe its been 20 years..
Scot
Here is a sad photo essay for you all..
Lehigh Valley Railroad.
Sayre, PA Locomotive shops, the "Big Shops" building.
1904-1988
Destruction of the Big Shops started a few days before November 1, 1987.
I dont have the exact day, but I arrived either one or two days later.
I *think* I arrived the next day..so it probably started October 31, 1987.
To begin the demolition process, they took one of the traveling cranes, pushed it all the way back to the rear of the building, atached a cable to it, ran the cable out the *front* of the building, attached a big MAck truck to the other end..got the truck up and running, pulling the traveling crane on its rails along the length of the building..
as the crane built up speed and momentum, it CRASHED through the front of the shops and fell to the ground!!
I missed that actual event..I think I read about it in the paper the next day.
When I arrived on November 1st, the crane was still sitting there on the ground and no further work had been done yet..
I was 18 when I took these photos, and had graduated from Highschool a few months before.
Now its January, 1988.
the building half gone:
May 1988..
its all but over..
Thats it for the shops!
Time marches ever on...
Here are a few bonus pics of the model railroad that was in the Sayre station in the mid-80's!
at the "Valley Railroad Museum"..
the first railroad Museum in the Sayre station.
approx 1984-1990-ish.
(I was gone away to college by then..I dont remember exactly what year they left the station)
somewhere I have good "overview" shots showing big portions of the overall layout..havent dug those up yet.
the railroad had the Sayre yard, Athens, and the Erie and DL&W in Waverly. era was approx 1950's.
HO scale.
Sadly, the model railroad had to be totally destroyed when the museum was kicked out of the station in the early 90's..
thats my LV SD40-2!
Under the Sayre walkbridge..
those are all my engines! I painted and decaled all of them.
Most of my engines "lived" at the museum for several years.
I still have them all! (even though I havent done any HO modeling since 1989!)
thats it!
hope you enjoyed this little trip down memory lane..
Hard to believe its been 20 years..
Scot
Last edited by scottychaos on Thu Sep 07, 2006 2:24 pm, edited 1 time in total.