Lehigh Valley locomotives were known by the road’s early Cornell red and black paint scheme. Later, units carried gray-and-yellow and white-and-black colors.
The Lehigh Valley dieselized with EMD FTs and F3s and Alco FAs (the last steam ran in 1951), and remained a prolific Alco customer through the 1960s. For a small railroad, the LV had a wide variety of locomotives, from Baldwin as well as EMD and Alco. The LV had struggled financially through the 1960s, declared bankruptcy in 1970, and became part of Conrail upon its creation on April 1, 1976.
i remember LV coming thru Binghamton NY when i was a kid in the early 60s. Big red and black diesel engines pulling coal trains and doing pick up/drop off of box cars at the Endicott Johnson shoe factory and IBM in Johnson City.