Framed picture “The Black Diamond Lehigh Valley Railroad”, 1913-1938

Large framed faux “painting” (a color lithographic reproduction) of steam locomotive No. 2010 traveling through the railroad yard at Sayre, Pennsylvania. With frame measuring 27 ¾ inches by 45 inches, from the back it easily can be determined that the image is a paper lithograph glued onto canvas and then mounted on stretchers (20 inches by 41 inches). On the gilded wood frame is nailed a brass plate “The Black Diamond Lehigh Valley Railroad” (surface is in poor condition). The steam locomotive is the LV 2010, Pacific Class K-2.5, 4-6-2, “home built” in Sayre, Pennsylvania April 1913 and scraped in November 1938. The image is a ¾ shot of the locomotive, coal tender and passenger cars traveling beneath the “walkbridge” in the railroad yards at Sayre. This type of steam locomotive was primarily used in passenger service for the Steam Era. Of the massive LVRR railroad facilities in Sayre, Pa. only the railroad station remains. The image depicted is from the Richard Palmer Collection and shows the exact image except the framed image in the Lehigh University collection is “doctored” to appear as a dramatic night scene whereas the original image depicted in the Richard Palmer Collection is a colorful daytime image. It is unknown who made the original colored daytime image and who doctored it to make it appear as a night scene.