Remembering Lehigh & Hudson River Railway freight trains

RS3s with the first C420

In mid-1963, Lehigh & Hudson River Alco RS3 diesel locomotives 12 and 3 prepare to depart Greycourt, New York, where the road connected with the Erie, with three freight cars and the latest addition to L&HR’s roster: Alco C420 No. 21.

R.R. Malinoski

Hustling bridge traffic

Lehigh & Hudson River 2-8-0 steam locomotive 93 approaches Maybrook, New York, with merchandise for New England sometime in the late 1940s.

Frank Quinn

Mikados meet at McAfee

In a late-1940s scene at McAfee, New Jersey, Lehigh & Hudson River 2-8-2 steam locomotive 72 waits with a northbound freight in the siding as Mikado 82 passes on the main with a northbound.

Kent Day Coes

Southbound freight at Warwick

A worker throws a switch for two RS3 diesel locomotives arriving at Warwick, New York, with a freight from Maybrook in July 1963. The man has put down his bulky portable radio set while he tends to the switch. Above him in the distance is Lehigh & Hudson River’s locomotive shop.

Jim Shaughnessy

Brand-new C420s

Spanking-new Alco C420 diesel locomotives 21 and 22 roll a Lehigh & Hudson River freight north of Warwick, New York, on May 30, 1963.

Jim Shaughnessy

Heavy 2-8-0 at Campbell Hall

Lehigh & Hudson River 2-8-0 steam locomotive 91 blasts past the tower protecting the New York, Ontario & Western crossing at Campbell Hall, New York, with a southbound freight in the late 1940s.

James D. Bennett

Clear track for the 'Central States Dispatch'

A Lehigh & Hudson River official riding one of the RS3 diesel locomotives heading the Central States Dispatch watches as the priority freight meets a ballast train in the siding at Allamuchy, New Jersey, in 1953.

Wallace W. Abbey

All this month — August 2020 — Classic Trains editors are celebrating the heritage, history, and images of the Lehigh & Hudson River Railway.

Please enjoy this photo gallery of images from the David P. Morgan Library archives at Kalmbach Media that include L&HR diesel- and steam-powered freight trains through time.

You might also enjoy this Lehigh & Hudson River history article from Classic Trains!