March 15, 2023 Souderton, PA – The Railroad & Industrial Preservation Society, Inc. (RIPS) is honored to announce the awarding of a $10,000 grant from the Berkheimer Foundation for the restoration of the Lehigh & New England Alco S2 locomotive #611. The grant was arranged by the Lehigh Valley Chapter of the National Railroad Historical…
It is documented that after being used to scrap much of the Lehigh & New England, #611 spent a bit of time in industrial service before being sold to the Ford Motor Company. Ford put #611, now numbered #10013, into service at the company’s River Rouge steel mill in Detroit, Michigan. During her early years…
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