2-8-0 steam locomotive No. 63
Lehigh & Hudson River 2-8-0 No. 63 stands outside the road’s shop at Warwick, New York, in September 1949. The engine was one of a dozen Baldwin Camelback Consolidations L&HR received in 1908.
Bert Pennypacker
RS3 diesel locomotives 6 and 8
Lehigh & Hudson River RS3 diesel locomotives 6 and 8 are tied up at Maybrook Yard (note hump in the background) after bringing train HO-6 in from Allentown, Pennsylvania, in 1951. Note the different striping on each end of the units.
Wallace W. Abbey
2-8-0 steam locomotive No. 52
Lehigh & Hudson River 2-8-0 No. 52 arrives at Greycourt, New York, with a local freight in 1948. The Camelback was from a group of eight built by Baldwin during 1903–06.
Kent Day Coes
2-8-0 steam locomotive No. 95
Lehigh & Hudson River 2-8-0 No. 95 was the last of six heavy Consolidations built by Baldwin in 1925 and ’27. The Wootten-fireboxed giants weighed 309,700 pounds and were rated at 71,500 pounds of tractive effort.
Baldwin
C420 and RS3 diesel locomotives
Brand-new Alco C420s 21 and 22 stand among older RS3 sisters outside Lehigh & Hudson River’s impressive (for a 90-mile railroad) shop building at Warwick, New York, in mid-1963. Nos. 21 and 22 were L&HR’s — and Alco’s — first C420s. Their blue-and-gray livery was a sharp departure from the RS3s’ dark green-and-yellow.
Jim Shaughnessy
4-8-2 steam locomotive No. 11
Lehigh & Hudson River 11 was one of three modern Mountain types Baldwin built for the road in 1944. Owing to wartime restrictions, they were duplicates of Boston & Maine engines of 1941, down to their smoke deflectors and centipede tenders.
Stanley B. Kitzelman
C420 diesel locomotives 23 and 24
While being delivered from Alco to the Lehigh & Hudson River, the road’s second two C420s, Nos. 23 and 24, were damaged in a December 1965 wreck at Laurel Run, Pennsylvania. After repair at Alco, the units joined the L&HR roster in May 1966.
Richard Allen
Classic Trains editors are celebrating the heritage, history, and lore of famed (and infamous) railroads. In August 2020, we celebrate the Lehigh & Hudson River Railway.
Please enjoy a collection of locomotive images located in the David P. Morgan Library archives at Kalmbach Media that include the L&HRs iconic locomotives and classic scenic photos.
