
Lehigh & Hudson River Railway R-1d "Mountain" Faded Shirt
Lehigh & Hudson River Railway R-1d "Mountain" Faded Shirt Printed on Front 100% Cotton Shirt Color - Black Comfort Wash Hanes 100% Cotton During World War II the Lehigh & Hudson River Railroad needed additional motive power. With new designs restricted it chose to buy duplicates of the Boston & Maine's Class R-1d "Mountain" locomotives. The Baldwin Locomotive Works delivered three (road numbers 10 through 12) in 1944. Class R-1d (Locobase 207) Data from tables and diagrams in 1947 Locomotive Cyclopedia. Works numbers were 70183-70185 in April 1944. (Thanks for Chris Hohl for reporting the tender coal capacity decimal error--NO tender ever had a 212-ton capacity--and for noting the later renumbering.)Identical design to the Boston & Maine's R-1d (Locobase 4410), but built nine years later to handle high freight traffic demands on the Lehigh & Hudson River from Allentown to Maybrook, NY. Locobase can't explain the 37 sq ft (3.44 sq m) difference in the superheater