lehigh valley railroad map

ft.), PRR / VP Eastern Region / Letter Books, 1924-1926. At the time, anthracite was transported by boat down the Lehigh River. ft.), PRR / VP of Special Services / Penn Central Merger Files, 1963-1965. By December 31, 1925, the railroad controlled 1,363.7 miles of road and 3,533.3 miles of track. Construction from Waverly to Buffalo was split into two projects, Waverly to Geneva, New York, and Geneva, which is located at the northern end of Seneca Lake), to Buffalo. (.03 cu. The majority of passenger equipment is believed to have been scrapped some time after February 1961. Annual Report of the State Board of Assessors of the State of New Jersey, News Printing Co., 1889, p.85. ft.), Berkshire Land Company / Journal and Ledger, 1939-1955. (.1 cu. (35 cu. By 1859 it had 600 coal cars and 19 engines. The CNJ, anticipating that the LVRR intended to create its own line across New Jersey, protected itself by leasing the Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad (L&S) to ensure a continuing supply of coal traffic. ft.), Leechburg Company / Minute Books, 1937-1954. The railroad ended operations in 1976 and merged into Conrail along with several northeastern railroads that same year. [16] After the LVRR opened its line, the Lehigh & Susquehanna extended to Phillipsburg, New Jersey, and connected with the CNJ and the Morris and Essex Railroad in 1868. (.1 cu. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Guide for the PRR with Extensive Map Including the Entire Route, 1855. 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. (.4 cu. The owners still owned the property, but the railroad was allowed to conduct agreed-upon activities on the swath in question. Since 1896 the LVRR had run an important and prestigious express train named the "Black Diamond" which carried passengers to the Finger Lakes and Buffalo. (.02 cu. ft.), PRR / Comptroller / General Correspondence Files, 1924-1964. (25 cu. (59 cu. (.1 cu. (.01 cu. The railroad was authorized on April 21, 1846, for freight and transportation of passengers, goods, wares, merchandise and minerals[1] in Pennsylvania and the railroad was incorporated and established on September 20, 1847, as the Delaware, Lehigh, Schuylkill and Susquehanna Railroad Company. (.1 cu. DeRuyter Val Map - info needed by Cactus Jack - Tue Aug 25, 2015 2:08 pm. (.1 cu. Conversely, the other railroads' obligations to pay those fees to the Penn Central were not waived. 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. All structured data from the file namespace is available under the. ft.), Bedford and Hollidaysburg Railroad / Minute Book, 1902-1911. These locomotives were also used in freight service during and after the era of LVRR passenger service. On June 21, 1970, the Penn Central declared bankruptcy and sought bankruptcy protection. ft.), Northern Central Railroad / Committee Minute Book, 1875-1914. of F. Thomson and A.J. President Richard Nixon signed the Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973 into law. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate & Taxation / Reports on Coal and Coal Mines, 1861-1864. 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. Most serviceable equipment not retained for company service was sold to other roads. Digitized content from the collections of Cornell University Library (1.3 cu. Bankruptcy trustee from August 1974 to April 1976. (.11 cu. The railroad was chartered on August 2, 1847, and elected James Madison Porter its president on October 21. The images on the film are arranged geographically, i.e. (.15 cu. (.2 cu. V2 en:Roselle and South Plainfield Railway. ft.), PRR / President / Presidential Correspondence of W.W. Atterbury, 1925-1935. Then the CNJ opposed the LVRR's attempt to cross its line at Caven Point. [5], At Easton, the LVRR interchanged coal at the Delaware River where coal could be shipped to Philadelphia on the Delaware Division Canal or transported across the river to Phillipsburg, New Jersey, where the Morris Canal and the Central Railroad of New Jersey (CNJ) could carry it to the New York City market. 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). Today, this route continues as two lines, one that is considered the original line that served as the main line for the Lehigh Valley Railroad and the other that is considered a new line that was once part of the original line that served as the main line for the Lehigh Valley Railroad. A pair of ALCO FA-2 FB-2 car body diesel-electric locomotives were also purchased to augment the PAs when necessary. ft.), Suquehanna, Bloomsburg, and Berwick Railroad - Ledger, 1902-1904. This page was last edited on 26 February 2023, at 16:09. [30] As a result of its leases and acquisitions, the Lehigh Valley gained a near-monopoly on traffic in the Finger Lakes region. w/ Val. The company was a subsidiary of the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company (LC&N), but for much of its lifetime leased by the Central Railroad of New Jersey.It was founded in 1837 to carry coal from the North Branch Division of the Pennsylvania Canal to the . The 1880s continued to be a period of growth, and the LVRR made important acquisitions in New York, expanded its reach into the southern coal field of Pennsylvania which had hitherto been the monopoly of the Reading, and successfully battled the CNJ over terminal facilities in Jersey City. The Geneva, Ithaca & Athens Railroad passed into the hands of the LVRR in September 1876, which extended from the New York state line near Sayre, Pennsylvania, to Geneva, New York, a distance of 75 miles. 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. 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. Young, 1929-1943. (1.5 cu. While researchers are welcome to come in and browse through the hundreds of boxes of rolled maps and drawings, Archives staff is not able to do research for non-visiting patrons in this series. [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. ft.), Philadelphia and Erie Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. Someone in either of those two offices or perhaps in the County Planning Commission Office might also know the general status of the different rail lines in the county -i.e. (12 cu. ft.), Manor Real Estate and Trust Company / Ledgers, 1903-1925. 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 . The economic depression following 1893 was harsh, and by 1897 the LVRR was in dire need of support. 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: In 1870, the Lehigh Valley Railroad acquired trackage rights to Auburn, New York, on the Southern Central Railroad.[1]. ft.), Franklin Railroad Company / Minute Books, 1836-1853, 1859-1865. (17 cu. ft.), Susquehanna, Bloomsburg, and Berwick Railroad / Minute Book, 1902-1918. 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]). (11 cu. (.1 cu. Oil and gas were supplanting coal as the fuel of choice. Cassat, 1893-1903. By controlling supply, the coal combination attempted to keep prices and profits high. (1 cu. Creator: Lehigh Valley Railroad Company Quanitities: 6 cubic feet. [31], In Pennsylvania, the Lehigh scored a coup by obtaining the charter formerly held by the Schuykill Haven and Lehigh River Railroad in 1886. [6], Through a connection with the Central Railroad of New Jersey, LVRR passengers had a route to Newark, New Jersey, Jersey City, New Jersey, and other points in New Jersey. The former Lehigh Valley tracks between Manville, New Jersey, and Newark are operated separately by Conrail Shared Assets Operations as their own Lehigh Line. Photos not available for this variation. ft.), PRR / VP of Eastern Region / Locality Files, 1918-1936. The Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad is a defunct railroad that operated in eastern Pennsylvania during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. (11.9 cu. Fortunately, grain tonnage was increasing and the company transported large quantities from Buffalo to Philadelphia and other Eastern markets. 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. permission to lay track, run trains and do needed maintenance along a long, narrow swath. (1.34 cu. (.02 cu. and Executive Comm., 1853-1906. 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). ft.), PRR / VP of Purchase / General Correspondence and Confidential Files of C.D. ft.), Chambersburg Land and Improvement Company / Minute Book, 1890-1905. 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. Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission, Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps forPennsylvania, Aerial Photographs and Index of the 1940 Aerial Survey of Pennsylvania, 1937-1942. Due to declining passenger patronage, the Lehigh Valley successfully petitioned the Interstate Commerce Commission to terminate all passenger service. It fronted the Morris Canal Basin with a series of 600-foot (180m) piers angling out from the shoreline but was too narrow for a yard, so the LVRR built a separate yard at Oak Island in Newark to sort and prepare trains. ft.), Penn Central Corp. / General Correspondence Files, 1955-1976. In 1871, the LVRR leased the Morris Canal, which had a valuable outlet in Jersey City on the Hudson River opposite Manhattan. The Lehigh Line still exists and still serves as a major freight railroad line that operates in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. (.1 cu. In 1875, the holdings were consolidated into the Lehigh Valley Coal Company, which was wholly owned by the LVRR. (13 cu. Size of this PNG preview of this SVG file: 800 600 pixels. ft.), Manor Real Estate and Trust Company / Property Ledger, 1886-1916. ft.), VP of Real Estate / Letter Press Books of W.H. To reach Wilkes-Barre, the LVRR began constructing an extension from White Haven, Pennsylvania, to Wilkes-Barre. Most of the other remaining Lehigh Valley track serves as branch lines, or has been sold to shortline and regional operators. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Printed Abstracts of Title, 1869, 1875. the succession of recorded deeds). [15] Asa Packer purchased additional land at the canal basin in support of the New Jersey West Line Railroad, which he hoped to use as the LVRR's terminal. From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. Passengers were routed to the Pennsylvania Railroad's terminal and ferry. By the 1960s, railroads in the East were struggling to survive. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Library /Publicity Photographs, ca 1830-1960. (.01 cu. Now under ownership of the Norfolk Southern Railway, the Lehigh Line's route is now from Port Reading Junction in Manville, New Jersey, to Penn Haven Junction in Lehigh Township, Pennsylvania. These tracks were laid and the Easton and Amboy Railroad was opened for business on June 28, 1875, with hauling coal. This imbalance in payments would prove fatal to the financially-frail Lehigh Valley, and it declared bankruptcy just over one month after the Penn Central, on July 24, 1970. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Pennsylvania Railroad and Long Island RR Directors' Inspection Trip Book, 1947. (.3 cu. In 1916, a horrendous explosion occurred at the facility, destroying ships and buildings, and breaking windows in Manhattan. ft.), Columbia and Port Deposit Railway / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. Although government-funded Amtrak took over intercity passenger service on May 1, 1971, railroad companies continued to lose money due to extensive government regulations, expensive and excessive labor cost, competition from other transportation modes, declining industrial business and other factors;[49] the Lehigh Valley Railroad was one of them. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Rules and Regulations, 1858-1925. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Histories of Various Companies, ca 1934-1965. 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. ft.), Valley Real Estate Company - Ledger, 1907-1922. :-)). ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Contract Book of George B. Roberts, 1869-1884. Post Conrail ownership and secondary lines. 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. [24] The marshalling yard is now the residential area known as Harbortown. Paper or digital copies of the items on the list can then be ordered. ft.), State Realty Company / Minute Book, 1907-1909. (43 cu. Congress reacted with the 1906 Hepburn Act, which among other things forbade railroads from owning the commodities that they transported. (9 cu. ft.), Nescopec Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. ft.), PRR / VP of Operation / Chief of Motive Power / Condition of Frt. ft.), PRR / VP of Special Services / Merger Testimony and Exhibits, 1962-1967. 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. Lehigh Gorge Trains are located at 1 Susquehanna Street, Jim Thorpe, PA 18229 #570-325-8485 . [1][9] To reach Wilkes-Barre, the LVRR purchased the Penn Haven & White Haven Railroad in 1864, and began constructing an extension from White Haven to Wilkes-Barre that was opened in 1867. Summary Outline map of the middle Atlantic states showing the three major lines in different colors. United States (except New York) States. 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. ft.), Philadelphia and Erie Railroad / Agreement Book, 1853-1894. (3 cu. During routine screening by Transportation Security Administration agents, Muffley's bag set off an alarm indicating it contained suspicious items, according to a criminal complaint. The San Jos to Merced project section of the California high-speed rail system will provide a critical rail link between Silicon Valley and the Central Valley. [11] Over the next dozen years the railroad acquired other large tracts of land: 13,000 acres (53km2) in 1870,[9] 5,800 acres (23km2) in 1872,[12] and acquisition of the Philadelphia Coal Company in 1873 with its large leases in the Mahanoy basin. (.02 cu. (.25 cu. (.5 cu. He served as chairman of the board while the presidency was vacant until PRR takeover. The coal trade was always the backbone of the business but was subject to boom and bust as competition and production increased and the economy cycled. (.1 cu. Packer brought additional financing to the railroad, installed Robert H. Sayre as chief engineer, and renamed the company the "Lehigh Valley Railroad." In some cases (yards, stations, repair facilities, etc.) (17.5 cu. Originally incorporated as the Delaware, Lehigh, Schuylkill and Susquehanna Railroad Company. Countries. It was followed by the "Catasauqua" 4-4-0 and "Lehigh" 4-6-0, which were also Norris & Sons engines. Lehigh Valley Railroad. Map of the Pennsylvania, Reading, and Lehigh Valley Railroads, and their connections. 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. (.1 cu. Lehigh Valley Railroad Company records, 1870-1962. ft.), PRR / V.P. 985, Last edited on 26 February 2023, at 16:09, Catawissa, Williamsport and Erie Railroad, Pennsylvania and New York Canal & Railroad Company, Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway, New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway, Reading Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad, Lehigh Township, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, "Lehigh Valley Railroad to Retires $2,489,000 in 66-Year-Old Bonds", "Pennsylvania Railroad Seeking all the Stock of Lehigh Valley", http://www.parailfan.com/NS/ns_lehigh_line_ett.pdf, "Last of the Railroad - Era Passes Tonight as Lehigh Ends Service", "E. E. Loomis is Dead. [43] The terms of the restructurings precluded dividend payments until 1953, when LVRR common stock paid the first dividend since 1931. (.15 cu. The LVRR had built coal docks in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, when it built the Easton and Amboy in the 1870s, but desired a terminal on the Hudson River close to New York City. In 1883 the railroad acquired land in northeast Pennsylvania and formed a subsidiary called The Glen Summit Hotel and Land Company. (1 cu. In 1927, Leonor Fresnel Loree, president of the Delaware and Hudson Railroad, had a vision for a new fifth trunk line between the East and West, consisting of the Wabash Railroad, the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway, and the LVRR. ft.), Pennsylvania and North Western Railroad / Annual Reports, 1890-1901. 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. ft.). ft.), Harrisburg, Portsmouth, Mt. It also continued to grow and develop its routes in Pennsylvania. These were FAs with steam generators, but they were not designated as FPA-2 units. In the following year, the LVRRa standard gauge railroadcompleted arrangements with the Erie Railroad, at that time having a six-foot gauge, for a third rail within the Erie mainline tracks to enable the LV equipment to run through to Elmira and later to Buffalo. Cassatt and James McCrea, ca 1899-1913. It leased the CNJ and the LVRR, purchased the railroads' coal companies and arranged for the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad to cooperate with the combination, thereby controlling 70% of the trade. how long the Rights-of-Way were for, when the track was laid, and when the time limit was or will be up. Indicates major drainage, cities and towns, and names the railroads along the lines. (.01 cu. (.2 cu. 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. In 1892, the Reading Railroad thought it had a solution instead of attempting to maintain agreements among the coal railroads, it would purchase or lease the major lines and bring them into a monopoly. (.1 cu. ft.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / Record of Expenditures Under Authority of Forms 1416, ca 1917-1926. (3 cu. [14], The 1870s witnessed commencement of extension of the LVRR in a new direction. ft.), Valley Real Estate Company / Minute Book, 1907-1922. Then in 1887 the Lehigh Valley Railroad obtained a lease on the Southern Central Railroad (the LVRR previously had trackage rights on the railroad starting in 1870), which had a route from Waverly northward into the Finger Lakes region. The Association of American Railroads, which opposed nationalization, submitted an alternate proposal for a government-funded private company. ft.), Philadelphia and Erie Railroad / Record of Track Material Loaned for Construction of Lumber Branches, 1895-1906. The 16 mile mountain cut-of, a rail segment of the line that extended from Fairview, Pennsylvania, to the outskirts of Pittston, Pennsylvania, was completed in November 1888. ft.), Buffalo Creek Railroad / Valuable Papers Files, 1868-1967. The Maple Leaf and the John Wilkes were the last operating long-distance trains, terminated that day. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Poor's Railroad Manuals, 1923-1949. 93-236, 87 Stat. (1 cu. The line later expanded past Allentown to Lehigh Valley Terminal in Buffalo and past Easton to New York City, bringing the Lehigh Valley Railroad to these metropolitan areas. ft.), PRR / President / Presidential Correspondence of Samuel Rea, 1913-1925. Wilson, Chief Engineer, 1881-1884. (.1 cu. The line's being downsized three times created two new rail lines: the Lehigh Secondary and the Lehigh Division, which was later sold to the Reading Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad (RBMN) in 1996; the RBMN would later cut back the Lehigh Division from Mehoopany to Dupont, Pennsylvania. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Reports on Coal and Coal Mines, 1861-1864. ft.), PRR / VP of Eastern Region / Press Copy Plan Book, 1899-1907. The LVRR first attempted to obtain a right of way at Greenville, but the Pennsylvania Railroad checkmated them by purchasing most of the properties needed. ft.), PRR / President / Presidential Correspondence of A.J. Other RBMN Train Rides . (.25 cu. A final attempt to establish a coal cartel took place in 1904 with the formation of the Temple Iron Company. Passengers preferred the convenience of automobiles to trains, and airlines much later provided faster long-distance travel than trains. This is currently the last time the line has been downsized. ft.), PRR / President / Subject Index to Presidential Corr. In 1999, the Norfolk Southern Railway which is owned by the Norfolk Southern Corporation acquired the Lehigh Line in the Conrail split with CSX Transportation but the tracks from Manville, New Jersey, to Newark, New Jersey, were kept with Conrail in order for both Norfolk Southern and CSX to have equal competition in the Northeast. (.2 cu. 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. Lehigh Valley Railroad System Map.svg. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Lease and Agreement Book, 1858-1889. [34] The LVRR obtained a 5-year agreement to use the CNJ line to access the terminal, which opened in 1889. The two roads had entered a shared trackage agreement in this area in 1965 to reduce costs, as both had parallel routes from Wilkes-Barre virtually all the way to metropolitan New York, often on adjoining grades through Pennsylvania. 1948: ALCO PA passenger diesels replace steam on all passenger runs. During the early years, the line served as the body of the Lehigh Valley Railroad until the railroad either built, acquired, or merged other railroads into its system. ft.), Western Pennsylvania Railroad / Minute Books, 1860-1903. Conrail abandoned most of the route in New York State to Buffalo after 1976, considerably shortening the line. The line makes notable connections with other Norfolk Southern lines such as the Reading Line and independent shortline railroads. Lehigh Valley Railroad; Discussion related to the Lehigh Valley Railroad and predecessors for the period 1846-1976. [1] Map of Lehigh Valley Railroad's terminal at Jersey City Map of Lehigh Valley Railroad's Roselle and South Plainfield Railway 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. In 1866, Master Mechanic Alexander Mitchell designed the "Consolidation", 1945: The first Lehigh Valley Railroad mainline diesels arrive in the form of. The line connects with Conrail Shared Assets Operations's Lehigh Line (the new rail line) and CSX Transportation's Trenton Subdivision at Port Reading Junction in Manville, New Jersey, and connects with the Reading Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad's Reading Division at Packerton, Pennsylvania, and Reading Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad's Lehigh Division at Lehighton, Pennsylvania (originally M&H Junction near Old Penn Haven, Pennsylvania). From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. ft.), Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad / Contract Books, 1864-1891. ft.), Mifflin and Centre County Railroad / Monthly Construction Accounts, 1862-1869. (bridge still exists today. Names Alter, R. H. Pennsylvania Railroad. This allowed the line's eastbound grade to be reduced and a shorter route for handling through traffic established. 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. (5 cu. [2][13] By 1893, the LVRR owned or controlled 53,000 acres (210km2) of coal lands. (1.1 cu. [1], The length of the line from Mauch Chunk to Easton was 46 miles of single track. (.1 cu. Some lines were subsequently abandoned and even dismantled long before the expiration date came up. (.5 cu. [4] All this changed in October 1851, when Asa Packer took majority control of the DLS&S. [39], Following the defeat of its plan, the D&H sold its stock to the Pennsylvania Railroad. Winning bid: US $15.00. ft.), PRR / VP of Finance / Treasurer / Treasurer's Cash Books, 1847-1863, 1865-1925. In the years leading to 1973, the freight railroad system in the northeast of the U.S. was collapsing. In 1901, Morgan arranged to have the Packer Estate's holdings purchased jointly by the Erie, the Pennsylvania, the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, the DL&W and the CNJ, all companies in which Morgan had interests. [1], Throughout the 1920s the railroad remained in the hands of the Morgan / Drexel banking firm, but in 1928 an attempt was made to wrest control from it. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. Additionally, a segment from Geneva to Victor, New York, later cut back to Shortsville, New York, to Victor, remained with the Lehigh Valley Estate under subsidized Conrail operation. The lists were constructed by doing word searches of the narrative series descriptions for the designated words: maps, tracks and real estate. The Lehigh Valley Railroad's original and primary route between Easton and Allentown was built in 1855. Ad vertisement from shop plaindealing. (.02 cu. 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. 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. 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]. 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

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