Did the Lehigh Valley fall out of favor. I am seeing fewer engines and cars for the LVRR. It was certainly one of the bigger railroads prior to the end of WWII.
Did someone purchase the rights to the logo?
Just curious.
Doug
What era is of interest? I purchased a Stewart Hobbies (now Bowser) ALCo 628 in LV paint scheme earlier this year. I also purchased some LV Budd RDC-1s from LifeLike Products (now Walthers). Bowser has several locos from the late 40’s thru the 60’s. Lifelike also makes PA-1’s in LV colors - you might be able to find them at your LHS.
http://www.bowser-trains.com/
http://www.tonystrains.com/index.html
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Brad
daxtell,
Check with the Antracite Railroad Historical Society as well. They have a number of LV models including the new SW 's done by P2K specifically for the society. The Society also has the special hodd modification used on these switchers. Check them out.
Hope this helps, Chris
Proto 2000 also makes the GP38-2 in LV paint as well as GP18 and possibly GP9. Either Proto 1000 or Atlas made the RS11 in LV not long ago. Athearn has an LV GP38-2 in the RTR line and LV F7A’s in the Limited Edition line. Atlas made the U23B’s in LV. Walther’s made the SW1 in LV red and silver. The MRC/Lima C420 was made in LV yellow/grey. Keep an eye on eBay, swap meets, big mail order places and LHS’s. The Black Diamond is still out there!
I’ve always liked the LV Scheme.
What scale are you in?
What I noticed with my favorite Prototype, the B&M, the models originally produced in HO are beginning to end while the same models are released in N.
Seems like there is bunches of it out there for cheap. I’ve picked up 2 Proto 2000 PAs, and some Stewart FTs. They were on clearance, so I couldn’t pass them up. They are waiting in the lOOOOng line to the the paint shop.
Don’t know where you’re seeing “fewer” but I’ve found that at train shows the road names tend to reflect the region.
If you’re in the midwest dealers are not very likely to stock a lot of eastern roadnames.
If you’re modeling the post-steam LV, there’s plenty available, including most of their diesels, at least two cabooses, and several dozen freight cars (both proto correct and not). Even the big three resin manufacturers each have a few LV freight cars in their catalogs. True, you can’t get everything, especially oddball stuff like some of their wood cabooses and MOW equipment, but no road is completely covered. The LV is covered better than most (wanna try finding an IC GP10? The IC was four times as large as the LV, and solvent for far longer, and served a far larger population base, but there’s NOTHING available for that road)
Keep in mind the manufacturers are here to make money. They wont put something out that wont sell. So if LV has fallen out of favor with the manufacturers, then it has fallen out of favor with the modeling community.
Not too much offered by the HO manufacturers for LEHIGH AND HUDSON RIVER except for HO steam locomotives. The HO manufacturers should offer more rolling stock such as freight cars decorated for the L&HR. L&HR as well as LV are now part of NORFOLK SOUTHERN.
A high quality Camelback maybe? Good idea! There are NO steam engines of the LV available, only the usual diesel fare.