Building a layout to cover the Lehigh & Hudson River in the late 1960's and I am wondering if anyone out there has access to this info. The reason why I am asking is that our group tries to recreate everything to capture an exact day from the history of a given line. To do this, we need to obtain the following information: 1) A list of train symbols with what time of day they were scheduled/run? 2) What type of power (model/how many engines were typical)? 3) Train Length (how many cars on average/LD & MT averages if known)? 4) How was the railroad dispatched. It appear that Form 19s on APB territory were used. Does anyone have a blank 19 from L&HR or know the basic format used for moving trains? 4a) How many dispatchers from Maybrook to G Tower? If more than one what were the territories? 5) What type of overhead traffic from CNJ, RDG, EL were seen on the route? 6) Any information on locals? Blocking Assignments and which trains worked where? 7) Yardmasters-Were there people stationed anywhere other than Warwick and Maybrook? Did Greycourt or Andover or Port Morris have a YM? (We do have live yardmasters and dispatchers in our operating sessions.) Any help in regard to sharing or helping us find this information would be greatly appreciated. If you know of a good place to look, please let me know. Thanks for anything you can do to help. Nick
With my luck, I make educated guesses and assumptions based on the limited material that I have available. Invariably, after committing to a plan and modeling it as best as I can, someone comes out of the woodwork who knows all about it and points out all the mistakes. If I can verify that they probably know what they are talking about, I change things. You have to be careful as some folks seem to make stuff up or remember it wrong. Anyway, with my portable modular layout, I have gained a lot of valuable research material just setting it up in public where people can see it and comment on it. And I have made a lot of changes.
You might catch more L&HR eyes if you edit your title line to include it. "Need help with L&HR history please"
Hey Ken that is an excellent Idea and I did mean to do that. Is there anyway here to modify the post so I do not have to start a new thread? Thanks, Nick
Thanks for this link…it will definitely help. We also found a several retired gentlemen who were able to supply tons of info from DS sheets, train sheets, crew info. We can now build exact trains as they were on the L&HR in multiple eras. Nick
