Previous photo meet between Bethlhem and Easton. Below Philadelhia and Western Stratford cars, I think at 69th Street.
812, the single original Liberty Bell wood interurban car not converted into a freight motor:
Frpm Richard Allman regarding the immediately preceding photo:
LVT car 812 is southbound at Acorn siding behind Normandy Farms. This was the third siding north of Norristown . Liberty Bell Limited car and Lansdale local often had meet there.
Just received from R. A,:
MY MISTAKE-YIKES! THIS WAS NORTHBOUND-THE FENCE WAS ON THE NORTHBOUND SIDE, AS WAS THE DIVERTING TRACK IN ACORN SIDING-SORRY FOR EARLIER ERROR!
Rick msy provide the location of the P&W Powerhouse.
From Richard:
Ok. David-here is the story. The power house shown is not LVT-it is the Market-Frankford Subway-Elevated of PRT/PTC. It was shot from roughly where the outbound platform was for northbound P&W and LVT cars. See the third rail for the work car, which is underrunning? The tracks I the foreground were shared by LVT and P&W.
Also from Richard, regarding my photo of the two Strafford Phil. & Western cars (69th St. Terminal):
Ok- this view was taken from the inbound platform and shows the upper level outbound track and platform. It was rarely or never used as a boarding since boarding was easier at the lower level which was at same level as the Market Frankford El. Cars were stored there in off peak and weekends but almost never Bullet cars. For obvious reasons it was a popular place for fan trip boarding.
This photo is posted esspecially for RC. The interior of Liberty Bell ex-Indiana 1030 before it was converted to coach.
Is the interior at Seashore like this?
I wish I had seen this earlier yesterday so I could have done a comparison. 1030 was outside at Seashore as part of a bunch of positioning moves to get it (and a bunch of other cars) in place so they can get some shop time. The interior might not be laid out exactly as shown, but the parlor-style chairs are on it, which replaced the coach seats it had in it’s last couple of years on the LVT. I’ll look more closely the next time I’m there.
Just to close up an old thread, 1030 was equipped with Cincinnati arch-bar trucks (off of the damaged 1004, if I remember right), because the Commonwealth trucks Indiana RR used did not have enough room for a third rail beam, required for the car’s use on the P&W. The other change was to the body, providing an extra exit door also required by the P&W. The cahnge made the car look very much like the ex-C&LE cars.
Ex-Indiana 1030 is ahead of one of the ex-C&LE cars in a line-up in Fairview Yard, 1948, and note the slighty higher roof, ;etterboard,and front windows:
LVT 1030 on Friday 8/21/2020:
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More pictures at Fairview Yard in 1948:
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Perhaps if the furniture arrngement is not per my photo, it should changed to suit for accuracy. (It’s only my photo, not my furniture arrangement!)
The 8th St. and Hamilton Ave. downtown Allentlown terminal had just a trailing crossover and no way to turn the single-end cars. After each run from Philadelphia (1949-1953 from Norristown) a run in reverse to Fairview Yard and back to 8th and Hamilton was normal. The car interior was usually cleaned at the yard.
Note in the first photo at 8th and Hamilton, the operator has yet to pull the front pole down.
and one more at the Yard:
Regarding the 1030’s interior seating, I got this message regarding the arrangement at Seashore:
No. The car has all perimeter seating - facing each other. Perhaps the Museum opted to restore the car to original seating configuration.
The first time I visited Lehigh Valley Transit was the only time I rode Easton Limited in regular service. LVT denied me the privilege of riding in one of the beautiful Cincinnsati curved-side ex-Dayton and Troy interurban cars and sent a regular streetcar to fill-in for the run. But I did photograph a meet with one of the interurbzn cars.
Here is better view of freight equipment at the Allentown Fineview Yard. Both purpose build equipment and a car converted from passenger equipment.
LVT 1030 is in the Seashore shop, or at least it was last Thursday. Most of the required work at this point is cosmetic, but some control-related work also remains.
The chairs inside are all singles, so they can be rearranged as necessary.
So, it is not a really authentic restoration?
Some more pictures:
Easton again
My first visit to LVT had me (and John Stern and Bill Watson), April. 1947, arriving at Easton on the Lehigh Valley RR from NY. I took these two photos at Flemington Junction, where I remember a connection to and from Flemington, NJ.
