The Lehigh Valley Railroad Volume 1

This is a preview of The Lehigh Valley Railroad Volume 1. This DVD is available from our website shown at the end of this preview.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad was an Anthracite coal hauling railroad which extended from New York City to Buffalo New York.
It was born out of the need to have reliable transportation of Anthracite Coal from the coal fields of Pennsylvania to the industrial areas in the East.
The railroad was known for its bright Cornell Red paint scheme and its premier passenger trains such as the Black Diamond, the John Wilkes and the Asa Packer which was named for its founder.
In volume 1 of The Lehigh Valley Railroad, we'll look at steam and first generation diesel operations from Jersey to Laurel Run, Pennsylvania, between the mid 1940's and the mid 1960's through the films of Arthur Angstadt, Charlie & Ken Bealer, the Alan Furler collection and the Randolph Kulp collection of the Lehigh Valley Chapter NRHS.

[@jpsageusa]

My father his adoptive father, my mother's father all worked on the LVRR. It was dangerous hard work.

[@gunsaway1]

LV was a neat railroad. Loved their paint scheme. Great video

[@christopherorourke6362]

My great grandfather Stepehn Kearney, my late grand uncles William Kearney, John Kearney, Frank Doyle, Dan Carmody, my late second cousins Joe Doyle, Joe Carmody all worked on the Lehigh Valley railroad out of Coxton Yard near Pittston, Pennsylvania. My late paternal grandparents were born & raised there and so was my late father. I have a book on the Lehigh Valley railroad on my coffee table along with a book called Trackside around Scrsnton, Pennsylvania from 1950 to 1976 also on my coffee table.

[@kurtkauffman4326]

Known affectionately for years as "ROUTE OF THE BLACK DIAMOND"

[@Niagra_fanBruce]

lived in warwick,ny been in the LV shop yard many times , when they did work on 759 steamer my son and i were invited by the fireman as it cooled down. so the couuld do repairs for the 1969 trip to Pmomantary, Utah.

[@Ascertivus]

This is awesome. Thank you so much for providing this video to KZbin.

[@peterkordziel7047]

I rode the LV out of Ithaca, NY to NYC I was a toddler but I remember some of the trip and seeing a new Chevy , maybe a fifty as we crossed a highway from an overpass the train was on we were in coach.

[@nityking1]

Just ordered this DVD and a few other, been wanting it for a while. Really excited!

[@nityking1]

Mike Bednar is very intelligent love to hear his stories

[@MattAttack54]

nityking1 he tells it with great detail he reminds of Ernest Borgnine

[@brandtbecker1810]

I wish I could travel to an alternate universe where all of this still exists...

[@brettany_renee_blatchley]

"Lee's crick" That's the way learned to say "creek" and this is the first time in 45 years I have heard someone else say it this way!

[@stephenhenion8304]

Just found your channel and I thg think it's Fantastic!!

[@jslasher1]

Great shots. Wouldn't it be great if one could turn back the clock for, say, a month to travel aboard the LV passenger trains.

[@intercityrailpal]

The last train a middle of the night Maple Leaf ...did not even stop at Wilkes Barre! It still had 250,000 riders pretty good! But loss of that mail...(thanks GM) killed it. High revenue business sleeper passengers from Western NY and Canada were going to go to jets. Of course that bushiness is back but it's retired people. Until Trump Amtrak was breaking ridership records. Held back by lack of service.

[@RB01.10]

Especially see the now defunct one in Phillipsburg NJ.

[@wanderer34]

It would be great if the powers that be could bring back passenger rail service back to the Lehigh Valley. That would be sorely needed now!

[@RB01.10]

I’d love to see more video of the now defunct line in Phillipsburg NJ. That specific line has been abandoned since 1989.

[@johnlambert4635]

Mike is the best love it thank you

[@Duececoupe]

Fantastic video! 👍👌👏😍

[@MattAttack54]

I didn’t know Ernest Borgnine narrated this cool

[@frankgaron2]

You've done it again, my good man!!!

[@hohobbyist1098]

Great footage!

[@travelingman484]

Thank you

[@herzschlagerhoht5637]

Vielen Dank! Schönes Video! ;)

[@Siren851]

Loved the opening shot of the streamlined Pacific (John Wilkes? Asa Packer?) I've never seen the streamliner in movies before, though I have witnessed the John Wilkes enter and leave the Wilkes-Barre station. One year he even brought the Easter Bunny to town!

[@raritanriverrailroadfan4418]

0:49 Bound Brook NJ. That's the present CSAO Lehigh Line.

[@jacksonslaterelevatorraila6444]

The filmer probably gone sadly :( great stuff though.

[@Retired88M]

Yeah turn the clock but have big Mike along to let us know what’s going on

[@MyChaz2]

great video where do you purchase the DVD

[@daylightbigboy]

I've got to ask, do you have any footage of Sayre yard in the 50s and/or 60s? There's a particular switcher (LV 200) that worked that yard and I'm on the search for footage of it.

[@JPMediaRR]

There may be some in one of the Bednar volumes

[@daylightbigboy]

John Pechulis Awesome! Thanks! I'll defiantly put those on my Christmas wish list!

[@buixrule]

@@JPMediaRR Hey John is there anything in the collection on O&W or NYO&W? Any video on that line is like hen's teeth. I realize it's an old railroad company but it did exist till the late 50's.

[@JPMediaRR]

@@buixrule Only footage I know of with some length is from the O&W Historical society. I do not know if it is still available, but there may be a webpage for them to check. It's too bad it wasn't professionally put together when it was done, but I suspect as a volunteer organization, it would have taken too long and/or cost too much to do a proper production. They should have looked for a production company who works with historical groups to deal with it as they usually absorb the production costs up front to regain said costs through sales over time. The footage was redistributed back to the original owners when the O&W group was finished with it. It would be very difficult, if not impossible to collect the footage today to do a proper informative program today. Many of the contributors have passed on and the footage was either sold off to an unknown person or group or was tossed in the bin.

[@a.b.s_productions]

Where in New Jersey did the Lehigh Train run? And this looks like a commuter train so are the tracks still around or part of NJ Transit to a curtain point?

[@rail-brony-gxy4508]

Going by what the Reading and CNJ did, the Lehigh Valley probably terminated landwise in Jersey City, and then there was a ferry connection to New York. Almost like the City of San Francisco where the train only went as far west as Oakland.

[@a.b.sproductionsllc]

Rail-Brony-GXY Don’t quote me, but I seen an Erie caboose that looked just like the one at 1:52-1:55 by a railroad crossing in Scranton, but it was dark and couldn’t get the best of look. There are a lot of abandon trains in Scranton.

[@RB01.10]

It also ran a couple of lines thrufh Phillipsburg NJ. Most was abandoned in 1989. A track still runs through though.

[@finndahuman57]

0:44 I SWEAR THATS A T-3 THE COUSINS OF THE READING T-1s

[@CrossOfBayonne]

Yes and the T-1s live on today although sadly no Lehigh Valley steamers are around

[@sandraknutzen6064]

make those trains work to make them happen mr.mike-bednar and do your stuff.

[@grandcrappy]

Holy hell, fixed signals will become obsolete because of a BNSF patent, some of their math geeks invented "roving", PTC-like signals. More unmanned too, since people make such disastrous mistakes, eh?

[@thomasrengel5577]

Tell us more about this BNSF patent and fixed signals.

[@grandcrappy]

@Thomas R Engel way beyond me, four brilliant BNSF signal engineers I believe, patented a new system that will in time obsolete fixed signals.

[@henrysobota1375]

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