An overcast day couldn’t dampen my excitement of seeing the Lehigh Valley engine service tracks in Sayre, Pennsylvania, for the first time.
For an Ohio kid often surrounded by Penn Central, this was pretty cool.
The steam era shops can be seen in the background as well as some switchers in need of attention.
The LV was living on borrowed time by late 1975 just like my beloved Erie Lackawanna was back home.
Many of the units in this photo would go to the D&H instead of the new Conrail to help with the expanded D&H network.
Regardless, all was right with the world as I stood on that bridge all those years ago, taking in the sights, sounds, and smells (EMD and Alco smoke mixed together, what a concoction!) of a railroad I had only known through photos in magazines and books.
Article and Photograph by Roger Durfee
Tags: Lehigh Valley locomotives, Lehigh Valley Railroad, Railroading as it Once Was, Roger Durfee photographs, Sayre Pennsylvania
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August 11, 2016 at 9:27 am |
All the locomotives are in Cornell red. You must have been there on a once-in-a-lifetime day.
Thanks for sharing the memory.
Bob