LV 631 and a sister C628 idle beside the Manchester, NY sanding tower while an older set of F7's, number rendered unreadable by the coarseness of the grain in the old negative, idles in the background. Manchester was at one time an important facility of the Lehigh Valley; LCL freight received from the west was sorted into cars going to the correct destination. It was served as the locomotive change and servicing point between Sayre and Buffalo. With all those pipes the sanding tower could deliver sand to a lot more locomotives than were likely to be around by the mid-to-late 1960's.
1967 is a guess, could be off a year either way.
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Photographed by Warren Beckwith, 1967.
Added to the photo archive by Warren Beckwith, March 17, 2022.
Railroad: Lehigh Valley.

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