Currently residing in South Plainfield, N.J., an area that was once served by the Lehigh Valley RR, three-rail enthusiast Robert Gwiazda just couldn’t wait to add the Lionel No. 2122070 Lehigh Valley Asa Packer set to his roster. The streamlined 4-6-2 Pacific with Legacy command control and Odyssey II Speed Control is being checked and cleaned by a brigade of mechanics before being sent out for its next assignment. It might be about to pull a few cars from Pennsylvania to the World’s Fair held in New York in 1939 and ’40.
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