Other RBMN Train Rides . Although the decade began with the completion of its terminals at Buffalo and Jersey City, and the establishment of a trunk line across New York, the company soon became entangled in costly business dealings which ultimately led to the Packer family's loss of control. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Poor's Railroad Manuals, 1923-1949. Names Alter, R. H. Pennsylvania Railroad. Due to declining passenger patronage, the Lehigh Valley successfully petitioned the Interstate Commerce Commission to terminate all passenger service. The former Lehigh Valley tracks between Manville, New Jersey, and Newark are operated separately by Conrail Shared Assets Operations as their own Lehigh Line. In 1875, the holdings were consolidated into the Lehigh Valley Coal Company, which was wholly owned by the LVRR. The State of New Jersey passed legislation that allowed the LVRR to consolidate its New Jersey railroads into one company; the Perth Amboy and Bound Brook and the Bound Brook and Easton were merged to form a new railroad company called the Easton and Amboy Railroad (or Easton & Amboy Railroad Company). (.02 cu. In 1973, the United States Congress acted to create a bill to nationalize all bankrupt railroads which included the LV. ft.), Pittsburgh, Chartiers and Yougheogheny Railway / Annual Reports, 1892-1910. Construction commenced in 1872 as soon the Easton and Amboy was formed; coal docks at Perth Amboy were soon constructed, and most of the line from Easton to Perth Amboy was graded and rails laid. Summary Outline map of the middle Atlantic states showing the three major lines in different colors. (.3 cu. The economic depression following 1893 was harsh, and by 1897 the LVRR was in dire need of support. [30] As a result of its leases and acquisitions, the Lehigh Valley gained a near-monopoly on traffic in the Finger Lakes region. [6], The LVRR immediately became the trunk line down the Lehigh Valley, with numerous feeder railroads connecting and contributing to its traffic. Passengers preferred the convenience of automobiles to trains, and airlines much later provided faster long-distance travel than trains. At Catasauqua, the Catasauqua and Fogelsville Railroad transported coal, ore, limestone and iron for furnaces of the Thomas Iron Company, the Lehigh Crane Iron Company, the Lehigh Valley Iron Works, the Carbon Iron Company, and others. (1 cu. [25] While the third rail on the Erie Railroad main line between Waverly and Buffalo gave the LVRR an unbroken connection to Buffalo, the road's management desired its own line into Buffalo. [45], In 1944, the LVRR's gross revenues came close to $100,000,000 which was a milestone for the railroad.[1]. (43 cu. Passenger traffic on the LVRR's Easton and Amboy connected with the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) at Metuchen, New Jersey, and continued to the PRR'S Exchange Place terminus in Jersey City (that connection was discontinued in 1891 after the LVRR established its own route to Jersey City from South Plainfield). Bankruptcy trustee from August 1974 to April 1976. The first locomotive purchased by the LVRR was the "Delaware", a wood-burning 4-4-0 built by Richard Norris & Sons of Philadelphia in 1855. At Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, the North Pennsylvania Railroad which was completed during the Summer of 1856, provided a rail connection to Philadelphia and thus brought the LVRR a direct line to Philadelphia. Most of the traffic along the line consists of intermodal and general merchandise trains going to yards such as Oak Island Yard in Newark, New Jersey, and Croxton Yard in Jersey City. Through neglect, the Reading allowed the charter to lapse, and it was acquired by the Lehigh Valley, which immediately constructed the Schuylkill and Lehigh Valley Railroad. Then the CNJ opposed the LVRR's attempt to cross its line at Caven Point. From the beginning, the LVRR's New York City passengers had used the Pennsylvania Railroad's terminal and ferry at Jersey City, but in 1913 the PRR terminated that agreement, so the LVRR contracted with the CNJ for use of its terminal and ferry, which was expanded to handle the increased number of passengers. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Printed Abstracts of Title, 1869, 1875. ft.), Philadelphia and Erie Railroad / Report to the Superintendant of the Tenth Census, 1880. [14], The 1870s witnessed commencement of extension of the LVRR in a new direction. The Maple Leaf and the John Wilkes were the last operating long-distance trains, terminated that day. Lehigh Valley Trail Facts States: New York Counties: Monroe, Ontario Length: 16.4 miles Trail end points: W. River Road/County Road 84 (Scottsville) and Lehigh Crossing Park at Shallow Creek Trail and Victor Mendon Road (Victor) Trail surfaces: Crushed Stone Trail category: Rail-Trail ID: 6015034 Activities: (.1 cu. In 1875, the LVRR financed the addition of a third rail to the Erie Railroad main line so that cars could roll directly from colliery to the port at Buffalo. This page was last edited on 15 September 2020, at 21:11. (.1 cu. In total, today's railroads in Pennsylvania operate just over 5,000 route miles, which is well under half the state's all-time high of more than 11,500 miles. A massive proxy fight ensued, with existing President Edward Eugene Loomis narrowly retaining his position with the support of Edward T. Stotesbury of J. P. The best place to find out the current status of a particular piece of land would be the Recorder of Deeds and/or Tax Mapping office in the relevant county's courthouse. [24] The marshalling yard is now the residential area known as Harbortown. The line is still owned and operated by the Norfolk Southern Railway and the line still runs from Port Reading Junction in Manville, New Jersey, to Penn Haven Junction in Lehigh Township, Carbon County, Pennsylvania.[52]. [6] To accommodate the 4ft 10in (1,473mm) gauge of the Belvidere, the cars were furnished with wheels having wide treads that operated on both roads.[7]. 1906 Antique Lehigh Valley Railroad Map Vintage Lehigh Valley Railway Map Birthday Gift for Dad Anniversary 527 ad vertisement by plaindealing. Lehigh Valley Terminal DL&W Train Shed Metro Rail Stations: Light Rail Rapid Transit System Miami Street Freight House / Franklin Terminals Belt Line Railroad: Daniel Zornick,, Beltline Railroad Illustrated essay Map: 1894 City of Buffalo Atlas map (online Sept. 2020) Miscellany: Robert Holder, History of Early Railroads in Buffalo Oil and gas were supplanting coal as the fuel of choice. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Pamphlet Description of Corporations in which PRR and Subs. As a result, the PC was relieved of its obligation to pay fees to various Northeastern railroadsthe Lehigh Valley includedfor the use of their railcars and other operations. (.4 cu. The Lehigh Valley Terminal Railway was a Lehigh Valley Railroad company organized in 1891 through the consolidation of the companies that formed the Lehigh Valley's route from South Plainfield through Newark to Jersey City via its bridge across Newark Bay.Until 1895, when the Greenville and Hudson Railway was constructed, the Lehigh Valley depended on the National Docks Railway to reach the . (.5 cu. In 1883, Hartshorne retired to allow Harry E. Packer, Asa's 32-year-old youngest son, to assume the Presidency. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Board of Directors' Roll Books, 1918-1967. (11 cu. On June 21, 1970, the Penn Central declared bankruptcy and sought bankruptcy protection. The building shutdown in 1961 and was demolished. File. (.2 cu. [2] It was sometimes known as the Route of the Black Diamond, named after the anthracite it transported. Size of this PNG preview of this SVG file: 800 600 pixels. 5 out of 5 stars (5,213) $ 19.50 FREE shipping Add to Favorites . Originally incorporated as the Delaware, Lehigh, Schuylkill and Susquehanna Railroad Company. ft.), PRR / VP of Operation / Chief of Motive Power / Letter Books, 1926. ft.), Frederick and Northern Railroad / Minute Book, 1873-1897. ft.), Philadelphia and Erie Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. (.1 cu. The production of the entire Middle Coal Field came to the LVRR over feeders to the Beaver Meadow: the Quakake Railroad, the Catawissa, Williamsport and Erie Railroad, the Hazleton Railroad, the Lehigh Luzerne Railroad and other smaller lines. (59 cu. (.1 cu. It was opened on June 11, 1855, between Easton, Pennsylvania, and Allentown, Pennsylvania, passing through Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Library /Publicity Photographs, ca 1830-1960. Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps. ft.), Pennsylvania and Midland Railroad / Court Proceedings, 1895-1899. The Shortsville to Victor segment became the Ontario Central Railroad in 1979 (the Ontario Central became part of the Finger Lakes Railway in October 2007[51]). Free shipping for many products! Wilson, Chief Engineer, 1881-1884. The railroad then set its sights northward. ft.), Finley Company / Minute Books, 1945-1959. The most important market in the east was New York City, but the LVRR was dependent on the CNJ and the Morris Canal for transport to the New York tidewater. ft.), Peoria and Eastern Railway / Annual Reports, 1928-1936, 1938-1961, 1963-1966, 1970-1973, 1976. (.1 cu. (.1 cu. (.02 cu. (3.5 cu. Indicates major drainage, cities and towns, and names the railroads along the lines. ft.), Enola Realty Company / Journals, 1905-1932. ft.), PRR / President / Subject Index to Presidential Corr. He was also an enthusiastic member of the Society's modeling committee . The L&S had been chartered in 1837 by the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company (the Lehigh Canal company) to connect the upper end of the canal at Mauch Chunk to Wilkes-Barre. Two final blows fell in the 1950s: the passage of the Federal-Aid Highway Act in 1956, better known as the Interstate Highway Act, and the opening of the Saint Lawrence Seaway in 1959. However, the route required a 4,893-foot (1,491m) tunnel through/under Musconetcong Mountain near Pattenburg, New Jersey (about twelve miles east of Phillipsburg),[21] and that proved troublesome, delaying the opening of the line until May 1875,[22] when a coal train first passed over the line. By 1970, this had dwindled to 927 miles of road and 1963 miles of track. (29 cu. (.1 cu. This allowed the line's eastbound grade to be reduced and a shorter route for handling through traffic established. ft.), Cherry Tree and Dixonville Railroad / Minute Books, 1903-1943. These were FAs with steam generators, but they were not designated as FPA-2 units. [citation needed]. ft.), Enola Realty Company / Property Sales Accounts, 1905-1914. The United States Railroad Administration controlled the railroad from 1918 to 1920, at which time control was transferred back to the private companies. The line became known as the Lehigh Line during Conrail ownership. Please enable scripts and reload this page. (.25 cu. This company became an important factor in the movement of anthracite, grain and package freight between Buffalo, Chicago, Milwaukee, Duluth, Superior and other midwestern cities. The lists were constructed by doing word searches of the narrative series descriptions for the designated words: maps, tracks and real estate. This map looks West, so the Lehigh Valley main line enters at the bottom of the page and heads up into Buffalo, while the Niagara Falls branch line runs off to the right toward Tonawanda (no airport yet! Construction began in earnest in 1853, and the line opened between Easton and Allentown on June 11, 1855. Some of the lines and branches covered in the series'twenty-four boxes include: For maps of the routes and land holdings of the Lehigh and New England Railroad, the series ft.), Pioneer Real Estate Company / Minute Book, 1946-1947. Fowler's Panoramac Bird's Eye Maps, 1884-1905, recently added railroad maps that may not be included in the old topical sections (search for the word "rail" or "railroad"). (.1 cu. 1948: ALCO PA passenger diesels replace steam on all passenger runs. LVRR Map 1 2016-08-10T14:17:31 . (.1 cu. (.1 cu. (.2 cu. By 1859 it had 600 coal cars and 19 engines. ft.), PRR / VP of Special Services / Water Company Files, 1905-1956. ft.), PRR / Comptroller / Cash Books for the Trust Created for Purchase of Securities, 1878-1939. Lehigh Valley Railroad 4-6-2 K-6B steam locomotive 2097 decorated for the railroad's centennial and leading the second section of train 9, the "Black Diamond," with ten cars past the interlocking tower at Treichler, a railroad location in North Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania, on April 20, 1946. (2006) Creator: Lehigh Valley Railroad Company Quanitities: 6 cubic feet. The railroad ended operations in 1976 and merged into Conrail along with several northeastern railroads that same year. ft.), State Realty Company / Minute Book, 1907-1909. ft.), PRR / VP Central Region / Blueprint Track Chart of Branch Lines, 1938. The LVRR found that the route of the Morris Canal was impractical for use as a railroad line, so in 1872 the LVRR purchased the dormant charter of the Perth Amboy and Bound Brook Railroad which had access to the Perth Amboy, New Jersey, harbor, and added to it a new charter, the Bound Brook and Easton Railroad. The LVRR's Newark and Roselle Railway in 1891 brought the line from Roselle into Newark, where passengers connected to the Pennsylvania Railroad. (152 cu. ft.) {#286m.254}. In many cases the Rights of Way were not perpetual, but were granted for, say, 99 years. ft.), Clearfield and Jefferson Railway / Annual Reports, 1886-1888. These tracks were laid and the Easton and Amboy Railroad was opened for business on June 28, 1875, with hauling coal. (2 cu. (.1 cu. The land that Asa Packer had obtained in 1872 was situated on the southern side of the Morris Canal's South Basin, but the CNJ already had its own facilities adjacent to that property and disputed the LVRR's title, which partly overlapped land the CNJ had filled for its own terminal.[33]. Young, 1929-1943. [1], Further rounds of acquisitions took place in 1868. ft.), PRR / VP of Law / Riot Docket and Ejectment Suits, 1877-1895. The 46-mile-long (74km) LVRR connected at Mauch Chunk with the Beaver Meadow Railroad. [3], Little occurred between 1847 and 1851, save some limited grading near Allentown, Pennsylvania. In 1866, the LVRR purchased acquired the Lehigh and Mahanoy Railroad (originally the Quakake Railroad) and the North Branch Canal along the Susquehanna River, renaming it the Pennsylvania and New York Canal & Railroad Company (P&NY). Newly elected president Eben B. Thomas, formerly of the Erie, and his board of directors represented the combined interests of those railroads.[36]. The line is part of Norfolk Southern's Harrisburg Division and it is part of Norfolk Southern's Crescent Corridor, a railroad corridor. These maps, bridge and structure drawings remains unprocessed. (.02 cu. (1.5 cu. {#31.18}, MG-416 Aero Service Corporation Photographs, MG-425 Ebasco Environmental Company Aerial Photographs, Baldwin Locomotive Works, Other Record Holders, PHMC Collections Management Policy Standards, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Access Policy, Erie Railroad and the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, Bangor & Portland Division, including Martins Creek Branch, Limestone Spur, Wind Gap Branch, Atlantic BranchandBangor Branch, Valuation orders and related records, 1914-1934. The original line retains its original route when it was first constructed and is served by Norfolk Southern Railway. The Auburn Branch Sayre, PA to North Fair Haven NY, PA | CR, LV, NY&OM Batavia to Leroy, NY NY | LV Buffalo to Victor, NY NY | LV The Cayuga Lake Railroad Auburn to Lake Ridge, NY NY | CLRR, CR, LV The Cortland Branch East Ithaca to Camden, NY NY | LV Ithaca to . The line was later extended out to the northwest past Jim Thorpe to the Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, area and later it reached the Buffalo, New York, area and past Easton all the way to Perth Amboy, New Jersey, and then switched direction to the northeast to Jersey City, New Jersey, later cut back to Newark, New Jersey. On January 7, 1853, the railroad's name was changed to Lehigh Valley Railroad. The project section runs from the city of Santa Clara, through San Jos at Diridon Station to Gilroy, across the Pacheco Pass, and including the Central Valley Wye extending north to . That project failed, but the lands were later used for the LVRR's own terminal in 1889. Following Loomis' death in 1937, the presidency went to Loomis' assistant Duncan J. Kerr,[40] but in 1940 he was replaced by Albert N. Williams,[41] and the road came under the influence of the PRR. Cassat, 1893-1903. ft.), Bustleton Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. (1 cu. Annual Report of the State Board of Assessors of the State of New Jersey, News Printing Co., 1889, p.85. (35 cu. The existing tracks from Manville to Newark became a new rail line and Norfolk Southern along with CSX own it under a joint venture. [34] The LVRR obtained a 5-year agreement to use the CNJ line to access the terminal, which opened in 1889. In pursuit of that strategy, the 1868 purchases of the Hazleton Railroad and the Lehigh Luzerne Railroad brought 1,800 acres (7.3km2) of coal land to the LVRR, and additional lands were acquired along branches of the LVRR. The line had a descending or level grade from Mauch Chunk to Easton and with the exception of the curve at Mauch Chunk had no curve of less than 700 feet radius. (.2 cu. The route across Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Oak Island Yard remains important to the Norfolk Southern Railway and CSX Transportation today, the only two Class 1 railroads that are based in the Eastern United States. These engineering drawings consist primarily of maps and structure drawings, although other subjects such as bridges, grade crossings and equipments are also documented. ft.), Enola Realty Company / Minute Books, 1905-1931. (.1 cu. (5 cu. The images on the film are arranged geographically, i.e. (1.25 cu. This is currently the last time the line has been downsized. The interstate highways helped the trucking industry offer door-to-door service, and the St. Lawrence Seaway allowed grain shipments to bypass the railways and go directly to overseas markets. (10 cu. F. A . (25 cu. Joy and Lancaster Railroad / Minute Book of the Committee on Real Estate and the Road, 1850-1855. The Lehigh Valley Railroad remained in operation during the 1970 bankruptcy, as was the common practice of the time. ft.), Manor Real Estate and Trust Company / Ledgers, 1903-1925. To support the expected increase in traffic, the wooden bridge over the Delaware River at Easton was also replaced by a double-tracked, 1,191-foot (363m) iron bridge.[23]. At the time, anthracite was transported by boat down the Lehigh River. Parts. File usage on Commons. At Perth Amboy, a tidewater terminal was built on the Arthur Kill comprising a large coal dock used to transport coal into New York City. (.01 cu. A long segment west from Van Etten Junction to Buffalo was included in the Conrail takeover, but was mostly torn-up not long afterward. (.02 cu. ft.), Johnsonburg Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. ft.), Penn Central Corp. / General Correspondence Files, 1955-1976. (MP 13/MP 13a/MP13c), 1896-1920. Lehigh Valley Railroad; Discussion related to the Lehigh Valley Railroad and predecessors for the period 1846-1976. (.1 cu. ft.), Ridgeway and Clearfield Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. ft.), Valley Real Estate Company / Cash Book, 1907-1922. how long the Rights-of-Way were for, when the track was laid, and when the time limit was or will be up. While the records are primarily legal documents rather than maps, information provided includes the effective date, purpose, names of interacting parties, terms, financial arrangements, and description of principle right or property conveyed. Most of the rail equipment went to Conrail as well, but 24 locomotives (units GP38-2 314-325 and C420 404415) went to the Delaware & Hudson instead. ft.), Shamokin Valley and Pottsville Railroad / Acts of Assembly Relating to the Shamokin Valley and Pottsville Railroad, 1858. [2][13] By 1893, the LVRR owned or controlled 53,000 acres (210km2) of coal lands. Any of the State Archives aerial photograph collections, including: images for these and other years available online via the, MG-286 Hollyman Publicity Photographs, ca 1940-1959. w/ Val. Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973, Pub.L. [1] Operations continued until the LVRR's bankruptcy in 1976. a railroad company might have purchased and owned land outright, but in the case of laying track from destination to destination, most simply purchased or otherwise secured a "Right of Way" through the property of private owners - i.e. In 1870, the Lehigh Valley Railroad acquired trackage rights to Auburn, New York, on the Southern Central Railroad.[1]. (.05 cu. . The first such combination occurred in 1873, followed by others in 1878, 1884, and 1886. (.55 cu. The train arrives from far away and passes the camera, while workers are waving their handkerchiefs.[37]. The purchase of the Penn Haven and White Haven was the first step in expanding to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. The owners still owned the property, but the railroad was allowed to conduct agreed-upon activities on the swath in question. Right-of-way agreements might be attached to or referenced in the chain of title (i.e. [43] The terms of the restructurings precluded dividend payments until 1953, when LVRR common stock paid the first dividend since 1931. The 23 miles between Mauch Chunk and White Haven through the Lehigh Gorge, now the D&L Trail, was opened in 1864. All structured data from the file namespace is available under the. Railroad Leader. [39], Following the defeat of its plan, the D&H sold its stock to the Pennsylvania Railroad. ft.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / Abstract and Opinion of the Acts of the Legislature and Casesin reference to the Title of the North Branch Division of the Penna. Ad vertisement from shop plaindealing. Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway | Train Rides in Jim Thorpe, PA Visit RBMNRR-passenger.com to see train trips originating from our other locations. ft.), PRR / Secretary / General Correspondence Files, ca 1887-1972. ft.), Wilcox Railroad Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. However, for historical purposes, the part from Manville to Newark is considered a new rail line and the Norfolk Southern part is considered the original line. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Contract Book of George B. Roberts, 1869-1884. Photo by Doug Lilly. [8] The purchasing of the North Branch Canal saw an opportunity for a near monopoly in the region north of the Wyoming Valley. Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. Although the 1864 acquisition of the Beaver Meadow had included a few hundred acres of coal land, by 1868 the LVRR was feeling pressure from the Delaware and Hudson and the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad in the northern Wyoming Valley coal field, where the railroads mined and transported their own coal at a much reduced cost. (.2 cu. The majority of the Lehigh Line is now owned by the Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) and retains much of its original route in eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey, although it no longer goes into New York City. The tracks from Dupont to Mehoopany became a new rail line called the Susquehanna Branch. ft.), Leechburg Company / Minute Books, 1937-1954. ft.), PRR / President / Presidential Correspondence of A.J. In 1941, the Pennsylvania placed its shares in a voting trust after reaching an agreement with the New York Central regarding the PRR's purchase of the Wabash. (.11 cu. The railroad also published a monthly magazine promoting travel on the train called the "Black Diamond Express Monthly". On April 1, 1976, major portions of the assets of the bankrupt Lehigh Valley Railroad were acquired by Conrail. This was the second step toward establishment of a direct route from Waverly to Buffalo, the first being the acquisition of the Geneva, Ithaca & Athens Railroad. The acquisitions in 1868 were notable because they marked the beginning of the LVRR's strategy of acquiring coal lands to ensure production and traffic for its own lines. ft.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / Property Schedules, (BV 634, 635 and 636), 1936-1941. Coal, steel, passengers, and various other freight could be carried via the Lehigh Valley Railroad to either the Great Lakes or . (.53 cu. ft.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / Record of Expenditures Under Authority of Forms 1416, ca 1917-1926. ft.), Western Pennsylvania Railroad / Minute Books, 1860-1903. [44] In 1957, the LVRR again stopped dividends. For more and perhaps more easily obtainable maps and aerial photographs, you may also want to consult the following sources: Tracings and blueprints for buildings, bridges, and track routes of the Land and Tax Department for the Wyoming, Jersey City and Buffalo Divisions of the Lehigh Valley Railroad are included in Series {#274m.568}, Track and Structures Drawings, 1870-1976. ft.), PRR / President / Clement / Eastern Region Coordinating Committee Files, 1933-1936. ft.), Susquehanna Coal Company / Leases, 1883-1939. ft.), Valley Real Estate Company / Journal Entries, 1919. N Scale Lehigh Valley locomotive by Life-Like. In order to handle the additional new ocean traffic, the LVRR created a large new pier at Constable Hook, which opened in 1915, and a new terminal at Claremont which opened in 1923. (.25 cu. ft.), Harrisburg, Portsmouth, Mt. (1.1 cu. This route became important to Conrail as an alternate route to avoid Amtrak's former PRR/PC Northeast Corridor electrified route. Map of the Pennsylvania Schuylkill Valley Railroad, the predecessor to the Schuylkill Branch The abandoned Schuylkill Branch bridge over the Schuylkill River at Lower Pottsgrove, photographed in 2011 The Schuylkill Branch was a rail line owned and operated by the former Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. ft.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / List of Roadway Completion Reports (BV 586), 1919-1927. (.2 cu. Map showing the Lehigh Valley Railroad system in the anthracite coal fields of Pennsylvania Names Von Rosenberg, Leo (Creator) Lehigh Valley Railroad Company (Publisher) Collection. . (.5 cu. [29] At the same time, the LVRR organized the Buffalo and Geneva Railroad to build the rest of the 97-mile Geneva to Buffalo trackage, from Geneva to Lancaster. Canal, 1901. (.03 cu. At Phillipsburg, New Jersey, the Belvidere Delaware Railroad connected to Trenton, New Jersey. File history. (17.5 cu. No comprehensive finding aid exists for these records. The line was laid with a rail weighing 56 pounds per yard supported upon cross ties 6 x 7 inches and 7-1/2 feet long placed 2 feet apart and about a quarter of it was ballasted with stone or gravel. [1], The LVRR's rolling stock was hired from the Central Railroad of New Jersey and a contract was made with the CNJ to run two passenger trains from Easton to Mauch Chunk connecting with the Philadelphia trains on the Belvidere Delaware Railroad. In 1896 the very early film Black Diamond Express was produced by Thomas A. Edison's company Kinetoscope. The Delaware, Lehigh, Schuylkill and Susquehanna Railroad (DLS&S) was authorized by the Pennsylvania General Assembly on April 21, 1846, to construct a railroad from Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, now Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, to Easton, Pennsylvania. (3 cu. A final attempt to establish a coal cartel took place in 1904 with the formation of the Temple Iron Company. In some cases (yards, stations, repair facilities, etc.) ft.), Nescopec Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. (.25 cu. This primarily consisted of the main line and related branches from Van Etten Junction, northwest of Sayre, Pennsylvania) to Oak Island Yard, the Ithaca branch from Van Etten Junction to Ithaca, New York, connecting to the Cayuga Lake line and on to the Milliken power station in Lake Ridge, New York (closed on August 29, 2019) and the Cargill salt mine just south of Auburn; and small segments in Geneva, New York (from Geneva to the Seneca Army Depot in Kendaia); Batavia, New York; Auburn, New York, and Cortland, New York. The LVRR decided to expand more to the Northeastern New Jersey in order to reach its freight yards without using the CNJ main line. In 1880, the LVRR established the Lehigh Valley Transportation Line to operate a fleet of ships on the Great Lakes with terminals in Chicago, Milwaukee, and Duluth. At Three Bridges, New Jersey, in Readington Township, the line interchanges with Black River and Western Railroad. That charter had been held by the Reading Railroad since 1860, when it had blocked construction in order to maintain its monopoly in the Southern Coal Field. . The Reading, now out of receivership, purchased the company and brought the other coal railroads into the partnership, with the Reading owning 30%, the LVRR 23%, the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western 20%, CNJ 17%, Erie 6%, and New York, Susquehanna and Western 4 percent. The Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad is a defunct railroad that operated in eastern Pennsylvania during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. ft.), PRR / VP of Eastern Region / Locality Files, 1918-1936.

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