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Post by The Ferro Kid on Jul 29, 2022 18:02:59 GMT -8
Having lived in Buffalo, I was used to Lehigh Valley being a push and shove switching operation (Tifft St Yard, Niagara Falls, etc.) May have been some hump sorting done for them at Bison.
Apparently Oak Island at the other end of the RR is virtually inaccessible. Have never seen much except aerial photos. Which put me to wondering, what diesels were used as hump power there, in the 50s and 60s when LV was still largely independent?
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Post by The Ferro Kid on Jul 31, 2022 8:55:38 GMT -8
Answering my own question, I've been all over the Internet looking for LV era (NOT Conrail, etc) photos of Oak Island yard. Most of them are distant. Then I got looking at the Lehigh Valley listings in Fallen Flags. Lotsa EMD switchers taken at Oak Island. None of them humping anything, but the LV wasn't afraid to lash - up three or four of its "Pups" to get a job done. It's possible that when they needed to hump cars, they grabbed whatever NW2s, SW8s, etc. they had on hand.
Still would love to hear from anybody who can confirm or who knows different.
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Post by drsvelte on Jul 31, 2022 11:00:39 GMT -8
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Post by lvrr325 on Aug 12, 2022 18:44:29 GMT -8
It's likely they used whatever yard power was on hand. Allentown was more accessible and once it became a LV operation leased BAR/ex-P&LE switchers, then sets of LV switchers, seemed to be the norm. LV switchers tended to stay in the same places for long periods of time (I once found bills for truck refueling in Ithaca that showed the same two or three units based there for several years).
In the 50s and 60s you would have had Baldwin and Alco switchers (the 539 power was dumped en-masse about 1965) also. You'd probably have to go by what power was photographed in the "pit" getting serviced and cross-reference based on which had MU capability.
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Post by The Ferro Kid on Aug 13, 2022 12:43:13 GMT -8
Hacked around there, but didn't find anything. Thanks for the tip, though! |
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Post by The Ferro Kid on Aug 13, 2022 12:45:25 GMT -8
It's likely they used whatever yard power was on hand. Allentown was more accessible and once it became a LV operation leased BAR/ex-P&LE switchers, then sets of LV switchers, seemed to be the norm. LV switchers tended to stay in the same places for long periods of time (I once found bills for truck refueling in Ithaca that showed the same two or three units based there for several years). In the 50s and 60s you would have had Baldwin and Alco switchers (the 539 power was dumped en-masse about 1965) also. You'd probably have to go by what power was photographed in the "pit" getting serviced and cross-reference based on which had MU capability. Yup, logical enough conclusion. LV had a lot of switchers, probably just lashed up two or three as needed for hump power. |
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Post by hudson_yard on Sept 25, 2022 15:48:53 GMT -8
Mike Bednars first volume of his morning sun lehigh valley facilities book covers the NY division, on page 16 and 17 it shows a pair of 200 series EMD switchers working the oak island hump, in steam days it would have been one of the 2-10-2s
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Post by The Ferro Kid on Sept 26, 2022 10:03:26 GMT -8
Mike Bednars first volume of his morning sun lehigh valley facilities book covers the NY division, on page 16 and 17 it shows a pair of 200 series EMD switchers working the oak island hump, in steam days it would have been one of the 2-10-2s I have most of the Morning Sun Lehigh Valley books, ironically not that one! Very interesting. Thanks! |
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