The Old Depot Gallery
The Finest in Railroad Art by Robert Frascella
Lehigh Valley RR Gallery
The Black Diamond Express
In the early 1940s, the Lehigh Valley Railroad's Black Diamond Express featured a new streamlined look with its stylized 4-6-2 steam locomotive and matching heavyweight passenger cars. In this scene the Black Diamond blasts through Trumansburg New York on its way to New York City. The next stop will be Ithaca, NY about 14-miles from Trumansburg. Today very little of this scene remains.
Original Painting - 16" x 24" Pastel on Wallis Sanded Paper - 2011 (Original - Sold)
AVAILABLE - a limited number of Giclée prints signed and numbered by the artist (limited to 250 copies). The prints are reproduced on approximately 13"x 19", 51-lb. heavy weight, Epson premium paper and printed with archival inks. Price........$50.00 plus $7.00 Shipping & Handling (US only contact us for S&H cost to locations outside of the United States)
LV 538 at Caywood, NY
Caywood, NY is located along the eastern shore of Seneca Lake, the largest of New York's Finger lakes. The painting depicts a Lehigh Valley train rolling past one of the many vineyards scattered along the lake's gently sloping hillsides. Alas, the Lehigh Valley is long gone. It became a part of Conrail in 1976 and was deemed just another redundant route between New York and Buffalo, NY.
Original Painting - 12" x 18" Pastel on Wallis Sanded Paper - 2007 (Original - SOLD)
NOW AVAILABLE - a limited number of Giclée prints signed and numbered by the artist (limited to 50 copies). The prints are reproduced on 13"x 19", 51-lb. heavy weight, Epson premium paper and printed with archival inks. Price........$50.00 plus $7.00 Shipping & Handling (US only contact us for S&H cost to locations outside of the United States)
Set Out at Dryden
A Lehigh Valley local led by RS-2 no. 212 rolls into Dryden, NY and is about to make a set out on the near track. Four cars back in the consist is a flat car with a piece of heavy equipment destined for the loading ramp where Dryden Supply Company will take delivery of the equipment. It's 1952 and business is brisk on the Lehigh's Southern Central Line in Upstate New York.
Original Painting - 12" x 18" Pastel on Wallis Sanded Paper - 2008 (Original - Sold)
NOW AVAILABLE - a limited number of Giclée prints signed and numbered by the artist (limited to 250 copies). The prints are reproduced on approximately 13"x 19", 51-lb. heavy weight, Epson premium paper and printed with archival inks. Price........$50.00 plus $7.00 Shipping & Handling (US only contact us for S&H cost to locations outside of the United States)
Borders Milk Plant - Dryden, NY
Milk processing plants were scattered throughout the Central New York farming region and during the first half of the 20th century milk trains were plentiful on the Lehigh Valley Railroad as they rushed their products to east coast consumers. Dryden, NY was the home of a Bordens milk plant where 4-6-0 No. 1133 picks up two loads of fresh milk.
Original Painting - 12” x 18” Pastel on Wallis Sanded Paper - 2007 (Original SOLD)
NOW AVAILABLE - a limited number of Giclée prints signed and numbered by the artist (limited to 50 copies). The prints are reproduced on 11"x 14'", 51-lb. heavy weight, Epson paper and printed with archival inks. Price........$30.00 plus $6.00 Shipping & Handling (US only contact us for S&H cost to locations outside of the United States)