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"Liberty Bell Limited" high speed service |
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A 69th Street bound Lehigh Valley Transit Liberty Bell Limited meets the connecting bus for Richlandtown, which replaced the LVT trolley on that branch. The interurban is one of the former Cincinnati Car Company "Red Devils" (aluminum cars) built for the Cincinnati & Lake Erie. It would be in the 1000 series, built in 1930, sold to the LVT in 1939, retired in 1951 and scrapped at Bethelehem Steel shortly after in 1952. Although hard to see, this car still has 3rd rail shoes, which it will lose in a few months when service is cut back to Norristown. Note the sign to the Quakertown Airport. The station house on the left still exists today. |
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6/1/1949 Upload Date: 2/17/2009 1:09:36 AM |
| Location: |
Quakertown, PA |
| Author: |
Charles Knox Freericks |
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Transit |
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LVT STREETCAR(Trolley) |
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Lehigh Valley Transit #421 |
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One of Lehigh Valley Transit's second hand Kuhlman lightweight city cars pulls past the Americus Hotel. Built for the Huntington-Ashland Railway Division of the Ohio Valley Electric (Huntington, West Virginia), it was purchased by the LVT about 1937. It was built by the G.C. Kuhlman Car Company of Cleveland. It's running on one of the local lines, which at the time were 10th Street Loop, Faireview, Greenwalds, South Bethlehem, Catasaqua-Northampton, Bethlehem-Easton, and South Bethelehem-Hellertown. |
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6/1/1949 Upload Date: 2/19/2009 11:57:12 PM |
| Location: |
Allentown, PA |
| Author: |
Charles Knox Freericks |
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LVT 421(Trolley) |
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| Title: |
LVT Private Car 812 |
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Image is a composite of two frames. Car #812, a 1914 800 series interurban, stops on its way to Allentown on the Philadelphia Division of the Lehigh Valley Transit Line as long-time LVT motorman Charlie Hauser (and famous LV NRHS member) stands near. This heavyweight was built as the copmany president's prviate car (#999) on the chassis of a wrecked 1901 high speed St. Louis deck roof car. It was converted to a passenger car in 1921 and re# 812, next to the 800 series Jewett interurbans (all of which were later turned into box motors or scrapped, while 812 survived until the end of service in 1951). |
| Photo Date: |
6/1/1949 Upload Date: 2/17/2009 1:08:14 AM |
| Location: |
Quakertown, PA |
| Author: |
Charles Knox Freericks |
| Categories: |
Transit |
| Locomotives: |
LVT 812(Trolley) |
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| Title: |
Lehigh Valley Transit City-Suburban Car 913 |
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A Lehigh Valley Transit "Tenth Street Car" pauses to pick up passengers across the street from the interurban and streetcar company's 8th Street and Hamilton Street ticket office in the heart of Allentown's business district, while one of Allentown's finest direct's traffic (and Red Devil #1020 departs behind his arm). Car #913 is a 1918 product of J.G. Brill (one of a group of 39 all steel, center-entrance 2-man cars for the Allentown, Bethlehem, and Easton Division of LVT). Like its order-mates, this car was modernized into a one man, single door car, allowing it to run into the 1950s. They were the mainstay of the Mincie Trail line, the main line between Allentown and Bethlehem. Color scheme was Mountain Ash Scarlet with cream trim. |
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6/1/1949 Upload Date: 2/17/2009 11:35:52 PM |
| Location: |
Allentown, PA |
| Author: |
Charles Knox Freericks |
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LVT 913(Trolley) |
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| Title: |
Brill "Master Unit" |
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The Americus Hotel opened in 1924 and is at 549 Hamilton Street. While you can still find the hotel standing in this location, you can't rent a room in it any more (it's closed) and you can't take a ride on the Brill "Master Unit" that CKF photographed here in local service either. Car #953 was one of ten 950-Series Brill "Master Units" delivered in 1930. They had the large center windshield that made the cars so easily identifiable. Sadly, these units were all scrapped in 1953, even though their sister Red Arrow "Master Units" lasted into the 1980s. |
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6/1/1949 Upload Date: 2/25/2009 12:36:02 AM |
| Location: |
Allentown, PA |
| Author: |
Charles Knox Freericks |
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| Locomotives: |
LVT 953(Trolley) |
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| Title: |
Cincinnati "Red Devil" passing Brill "Master Unit" |
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The Liberty Bell Depot of the Lehigh Valley Transit at 8th and Hamilton is the backdrop as Cicinnati Car Company "Red Devil" #1020 in Philadelphia Express service passes Brill "Master Unit" #953 in local service on what appears to be a warm summer afternoon. |
| Photo Date: |
6/1/1949 Upload Date: 2/25/2009 12:36:10 AM |
| Location: |
Allentown, PA |
| Author: |
Charles Knox Freericks |
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| Locomotives: |
LVT 1020(Trolley) LVT 953(Trolley) |
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| Title: |
Liberty Bell Limited lightweight |
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One of twelve very modern lightweight high-speed interurbans bought second-hand from the defunct Cincanniti and Lake Erie Railroad, coach-lounge "Red Devil" #1020 was one of seven lounge cars in the order (the others were straight coaches). The motorman's side door was cut in by the LVT. The front trolley pole was added to allow reverse running. The third rail shoes were added for running on the Philadelphia and Western track south of Norristown. It is seen here in front of the Lehigh Valley Transit Depot Ticket Office at 8th and Hamilton in downtown Allentown. |
| Photo Date: |
6/1/1949 Upload Date: 2/25/2009 12:36:16 AM |
| Location: |
Allentown, PA |
| Author: |
Charles Knox Freericks |
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| Locomotives: |
LVT 1020(Trolley) |
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| Title: |
"Liberty Bell Limited" high speed service |
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A former Cincinnati and Lake Erie "Red Devil" car (or a Cincinnati Car as my dad called them) Liberty Bell Limited waits at 8th and Hamilton St. at the Liberty Bell route depot in downtown Allentown. This was one of 12 lightweight 1000 series Red Devils from the C&LE. Built in 1930 by Cincinnati Car Company, these cars had a top speed of about 80 mph and aluminum bodies. LVT aquired them in 1939 after C&LE abandoned in 1938. They ran until LVT called it quits in 1951, and were scrapped in 1952. This car was running one of the "Expresses" leaving Allentown on the hour from 6 am to 10 pm. It would reach 69th Street in Upper Darby in 2 hours and 22 minutes. |
| Photo Date: |
6/1/1949 Upload Date: 2/17/2009 11:07:39 PM |
| Location: |
Allentown, PA |
| Author: |
Charles Knox Freericks |
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| Locomotives: |
LVT 1020(Trolley) |
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