Hello RYPN,
I have an interesting mystery!

I have been searching for the fate of three "missing" Lehigh Valley U23B's since I first started the LV survivors page back in 2003:

http://www.frontiernet.net/~scottychaos ... tives.html

Three of the LV's twelve U-boats remain unaccounted for to this day..
I was beginning to assume they must be scrapped, since no one has seen them since they left the Reading & Northern in 1998.
no sign of the units at all for the last decade..

The three "Missing" U-boats in question are these:

Lehigh Valley U23B 505
to Conrail 2781
to Reading & Northern 2394
sold by R&N in 1998 to RMDI
sold to Texas Utilities by RMDI
To Texas Utilities 2394


Lehigh Valley U23B 506
to Conrail 2782
to Reading & Northern 2393
sold by R&N in 1998 to RMDI
sold to Texas Utilities by RMDI
To Texas Utilities 2393


Lehigh Valley U23B 507
to Conrail 2783
to Texas Utilities 6/23/1993

every once in awhile I do a new google search, poking arund the internet for any sign of these engines..usually nothing comes up..
but today something has!! ;D

Check out these pics! taken by Ben Helsel, a month ago, In Amarillo, Texas!

http://ns2557.rrpicturearchives.net/sho ... id=1791327

http://ns2557.rrpicturearchives.net/sho ... id=1791339

Not positively ID'd yet..but! they are U23B's, and they are in Texas!
also notice a bit of Red showing through the paint!

They could also be Missouri Pacific U23B's..as it is known that Texas Utilities had some Mopac U23B's as well as the LV units..

I have compared the Texas photos with LV photos..I can find no obvious spotting features that would rule them out as LV units..

now we have to somehow figure out their true identity!

(im going to email Progress Rail, PRLX)

Scot

Once identified, would anyone come forward to preserve even one of the units? It would be a terrific heritage find.