A little over forty-four years ago, the Lehigh Valley Railroad ceased to exist, and I took my last photo of a real, unpatched road unit leading a train. Much of my early work had the LV as the subject, and it deeply saddened me to see my favorite railroad disappear. A few years ago, I met fellow RP contributor Loyd Lowry, and I lamented to him that I had had no luck shooting the LV heritage unit. He said that he felt like he saw it more often than he wanted. Today I finally got redemption, shooting it leading NS empty hopper train 777 along the Juniata River at Aqueduct, Pennsylvania. It was appropriately paired with the Nickel Plate heritage unit, since the Lehigh Valley and the NKP had a run-through train in the early 1960’s.
