Lehigh Valley Railroad, Black Diamond Train

Here is a video from 1955 when Jim Lantz retired from being the engineer of the famous Black Diamond train for Lehigh Valley Railroad.
He is Vicki's Great-Grandfather

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[BarryManilowFan4eva]

That @ Sayre?? LV 4Ever

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@BarryManilowFan4eva

Yes, Sayre!

[JTracy3358]

Where was this taken? Both my grandfather and great grandfather worked for LHV and were engineers. One of the guys in the movie looks like my great Grandad Ben Casselbury.

John

[Ellipse40FD]

Sayre, PA

[jps2102]

thank you very much for sharing the memories. This is AWESOME VIdeo. Great Job on Preserving the History. I presume that that was the Black Diamond??? too many things go un documented. but it is great to see things that were documented like that day.

Great Job

[Ellipse40FD]

Thank you.

It is the Black Diamond.

This is an old 8mm video of my wife's great-grandfather's retirement as Engineer of the Black Diamond.

[intercityrailpal]

@BarryManilowFan4eva Did you know the Observation Lounge from the "Black Diamond" is in Cooperstown, NY at the NYS&W station? It was rebult into a mid train lounge by the Valley. Used on the Bath and Hammonsport then sold to the NYS&W. It was for sale a short time ago. But since the track to it is ripped up, so far no one can get it out of there. There are also a few cars at Winslow Jct, N.J. in pretty ruff shape. Owned by the Anthracite Historical Society.

[BarryManilowFan4eva]

@Ellipse40FDo, i thought so. i live near sayre. sad site 2c 2day.

[intercityrailpal]

You think you miss the "Diamond" now wait untill the airservice which is very energy intensive is gone! Most airlines have been bankrupt in the past few years due to high fuel costs. You ain't seen nothing yet! The Diamond today would be a very popular train. Linking NY and Philadelphia via the Lehigh Valley to Ithaca, Rochester and Buffalo and Chicago. It would be a sell out many days. When the "Diamond" died gas must have been 20 cents a gallon. Those days are gone too!

[intercityrailpal]

Gee, when the Black Diamond was running America could export oil instead of importing a trillion dollars worth of it every year. That mail that was important income for the "Diamond" was put on trucks. Now instead of 10 mail cars we have 20 trucks and 20 drivers 20 fuel tanks, really smart. That is if you sell oil and trucks. Trains which are great energy savers are in museums! Tracks are ripped up. Everything is trucked. Then people wonder why everything costs so much!

[otef434]

That was special. More stuff like this needs to be on You Tube. It shows a culture of railroaders not seen today. And a lot of class at that!

[Ingjowa]

Hello,

I am Inga, granddaughter of Jim Lantz and daughter of George Lantz. I have a copy of the last run but it is so neat to see this on youtube. I will be posting this to my favorites on my page. Thanks!

[CountVonBoco]

Alcos FOR THE WIN.

:D

"Another LV Addict"

Awesome to see more Lehigh Videos put up here.

Thanks for sharing.