Lehigh
Valley
Railroad
SW1 #112.
USA Trains
NW2
kitbashed into a SW1.
1/29
scale.
Scot
Lawrence
October
5,
2005 Gotta
love the
EMD SW1! The SW1
was
first introduced
in 1939 as the EMC SW1. There
were
many variations
in the SW1 over its 20 years of production.
I am
going to
model Lehigh
Valley SW1 #112. First, some history of LV 112: Her EMD
Builder's photo! I colorized
the builders photo using photoshop:
The
second
paintscheme
112 wore is the most common LV Diesel paintscheme.
Third
and
final paintscheme. "Lehigh
Valley
Railroad,
The Wyoming and Buffalo Divisions." By Mike
Bednar 8
months
later, April
1971, 112 is photographed wearing her new Tuscan
scheme, and
again in
the Bednar
book, 112 is shown in 1972 in the Tuscan scheme.
Here is 112 in her final paintscheme:
So the
3
paintschemes
are well documented. 2.
Cornell Red
3-stripe
scheme. - (1944-1948) to 1970/71 - 25-30 years.
3.
Tuscan -
1970/71 to
the end of the LV - only 5 years with the LV,
112
clearly
spent a majority
of her career as a Sayre yard swicher.
And
that
brings us up
to Today. the year 2005. The
book "Trackside
around Sayre-Towanda-Waverly with Lloyd Hall."
states that 112 was
"scrapped in 1976 without making it to the Conrail
roster." Here
is
a photo of 112 heading..somewhere!
She
clearly
stayed with
the LV up to, or at least near "the end" in 1976.
26
years go
by, its 2003,
and the LV internet forums light up with reports
of a LV switcher
discovered
still in her LV paintscheme!!
AMAZING picures of 112!: http://64.246.11.82/images/l/LV_112_SW1_18June03.jpg.12905.jpg http://64.246.11.82/images/l/LV_112_SW1_F_18June03.jpg.59123.jpg she has never been repainted, no LV markings have ever been painted out. She is
the
only surviving
LV locomotive that is still in her LV paint,
LV 112
was
purchased by Scott K. of Pennsy
Railcar. click here
for the full story! :)
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when all the photo
links were dead..
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