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Lehigh Valley - 4 In Color

By: Mitchell E. Dakelman

Morning Sun Books, Inc., 2007
Hardcover, 128 pages, All Color

List Price: $59.95                                       Our Price: $47.96

Follow the fall of the Lehigh Valley Railroad through its Annual Reports and more than 250 color images from post WWII to Conrail in this new book. There’s much to see and read in these 128-pages!

Contents Include:

Foreword...3
The Building of the Lehigh Valley Railroad...4
The Final Decade of Steam...10
Faster than a Speeding Bullet
Steaming through the Garden State
The Coming of Diesels...17
Gas Electrics
Meet Ben Dedek
EMD F's, Alcos and More
The Alco FA's
Passenger Diesels...28
Here Come the Diesels
The End of Steam...36
Postwar Diesel Switchers
EMD "Pup"
SW900M & SW8M Switchers
Replacement Power...50
EMD Geeps
The RS11's
The C420's
Alco C628's
Used RS3's
Final new Power
GE U23B's
Buffalo to Jersey City...65
Auburn Branch
From Athens to Coxton
Heading Towards Lehighton
Allentown, Pennsylvania
Lehigh and New England Operation
Bethlehem to Easton
Easton - Phillipsburg
Belvidere-Delaware Railroad
The Perth Amboy Branch
Final Leap to Jersey City
Finale...127