LEHIGH & HUDSON RIVER MOTIVE POWER AS OF 1950

Road Numbers

Photographs/Date

 Year Acquired Wheel Arrangement Builder Disposition / Date
1   1950 RS-3 B-B Diesel American Locomotive Company Sold 1971 Port Comfort & Northern
2   1950 RS-3 B-B Diesel American Locomotive Company Traded Back to ALCO 1965
3 1952 1966 1950 RS-3 B-B Diesel American Locomotive Company Sold 1970 Vermont Railway
4   1950 RS-3 B-B Diesel American Locomotive Company Sold 1970 Saint Johnsbury & Lamoille County Railroad
5   1950 RS-3 B-B Diesel American Locomotive Company Traded Back to ALCO 1965
6   1950 RS-3 B-B Diesel American Locomotive Company Traded Back to ALCO 1965
7 1961 1950 RS-3 B-B Diesel American Locomotive Company Traded Back to ALCO 1966
8   1950 RS-3 B-B Diesel American Locomotive Company Traded Back to ALCO 1965
9   1950 RS-3 B-B Diesel American Locomotive Company Traded Back to ALCO 1966
10   1944 4-8-2 Conventional American Locomotive Company 1951
11 1950 1944 4-8-2 Conventional American Locomotive Company 1951
12 1950 1944 4-8-2 Conventional American Locomotive Company 1951
50   1903 2-8-0 Camelback Baldwin Locomotive Works 1950
60 1947 1908 2-8-0 Camelback Baldwin Locomotive Works 1950
63 1951 1908 2-8-0 Camelback Baldwin Locomotive Works 1950
70   1916 2-8-2 Conventional Baldwin Locomotive Works 1950
71   1916 2-8-2 Conventional Baldwin Locomotive Works 1950
72   1916 2-8-2 Conventional Baldwin Locomotive Works 1950
73   1916 2-8-2 Conventional Baldwin Locomotive Works 1950
80 1939 1942 1918 2-8-2 Conventional Baldwin Locomotive Works 1950
81 1947 1918 2-8-2 Conventional Baldwin Locomotive Works 1950
82 1948 1918 2-8-2 Conventional Baldwin Locomotive Works 1950
83 1951 1918 2-8-2 Conventional Baldwin Locomotive Works 1950
90 1936 1925 2-8-0 Conventional Baldwin Locomotive Works 1950
91   1925 2-8-0 Conventional Baldwin Locomotive Works 1950
92   1925 2-8-0 Conventional Baldwin Locomotive Works 1950
93   1927 2-8-0 Conventional Baldwin Locomotive Works 1950
94   1927 2-8-0 Conventional Baldwin Locomotive Works 1950
95   1927 2-8-0 Conventional Baldwin Locomotive Works 1950
Note: The next to the last 3 ALCO RS-3 diesels acquired the road numbers of out-of-service Nos. 10 - 12, which were subsequently renumbered on paper 41 - 43.
 
LEHIGH & HUDSON RIVER MOTIVE POWER ACQUIRED AFTER 1950
10   1950 RS-3 B-B Diesel American Locomotive Company Sold 1971 Saint Johnsbury & Lamoille County Railroad
11   1951 RS-3 B-B Diesel American Locomotive Company Traded Back to ALCO 1966
12   1951 RS-3 B-B Diesel American Locomotive Company Sold 1969 Vermont Railway
13

1971

 1951 RS-3 B-B Diesel American Locomotive Company Sold 1971 San Manuel Arizona
21   1963 C-420 B-B Diesel American Locomotive Company CONRAIL 1976 by Merger
22   1963 C-420 B-B Diesel American Locomotive Company Sold 1972 to Essex Terminal
23 1972 1966* C-420 B-B Diesel American Locomotive Company CONRAIL 1976 by Merger
24   1966* C-420 B-B Diesel American Locomotive Company CONRAIL 1976 by Merger
25   1966 C-420 B-B Diesel American Locomotive Company Sold 1975 British Columbia Railway
26   1966 C-420 B-B Diesel American Locomotive Company Sold 1975 British Columbia Railway
27   1966 C-420 B-B Diesel American Locomotive Company CONRAIL 1976 by Merger
28   1966 C-420 B-B Diesel American Locomotive Company CONRAIL 1976 by Merger
29   1966 C-420 B-B Diesel American Locomotive Company CONRAIL 1976 by Merger
*Ordered for delivery in 1965, both units wrecked en-route from ALCO at Laurel Run, PA, on December 26, 1965. Units rebuild by ALCO and redelivered the following May 1966.

The photographs presented in this section are from the cameras / collections of Gene Falada, Robert F. Fischer, Ted Gay, Warren C. Gearrick, William T. Greenberg, Jr., Robert Guthlein, Howard E. Johnston, Richard S. Loane, Richard Stevenson, and Harold Fagerberg. All research is from Eastern Steam Pictorial - The Anthracite Roads - Bert Pennypacker; Railroads in the Lehigh Valley - Lehigh Valley Chapter National Railway Historical Society, Inc.; Diesel Locomotive Rosters: The Railroad Magazine Series - Wayner Publications; Lehigh & Hudson River In Color - Jim Boyd and Tracy Antz; L&HR Lehigh & Hudson River Volume I: The West End - Ed Christ with John Krause; and Lehigh & Hudson River Volume II: The East End - Ed Christ with John Krause.

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