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. (297 cu. ft.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / List of Roadway Completion Reports (BV 586), 1919-1927. A daily freight train was put into operation leaving Easton in the morning and returning in the evening. ft.), PRR / VP of Special Services / Merger Studies, 1950-1970. The Beaver Meadow Railroad had been built in 1836, and it transported anthracite coal from Jeansville in Pennsylvania's Middle Coal Field to the Lehigh Canal at Mauch Chunk. (2.25 cu. 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. A final attempt to establish a coal cartel took place in 1904 with the formation of the Temple Iron Company. ft.), Western Pennsylvania Railroad / Minute Books, 1860-1903. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Library / Library Reference Materials, ca 1834-1963. In 1883, Hartshorne retired to allow Harry E. Packer, Asa's 32-year-old youngest son, to assume the Presidency. Approximately 350,000 tons of anthracite moved to Perth Amboy during that year for transshipment by water. (bridge still exists today. (2 cu. (1 cu. ft.), PRR / VP of Operation / Chief of Motive Power / Miscellaneous Motive Power Blueprints and Related Materials, ca 1900-1968. (.02 cu. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Survey Books and Legal Papers of the Pennsylvania Canal Company, 1857-1922. Maps of North America. Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission, Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps forPennsylvania, Aerial Photographs and Index of the 1940 Aerial Survey of Pennsylvania, 1937-1942. 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. 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. Proudly founded in 1681 as a place of tolerance and freedom. The 46-mile-long (74km) LVRR connected at Mauch Chunk with the Beaver Meadow Railroad. ft.), Bell's Gap Railroad / Annual Reports, 1873-1889. (2 cu. ft.), A publication by Thomas Townsend Taber (Thomas T. Taber III) entitled, PRR / Comptroller / Confidential Annual Reports of Affiliated Corporations, 1892-1959. The LVRR strove throughout the 1880s to acquire its own route to Jersey City and to the Jersey City waterfront. (35 cu. I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license: (SVG file, nominally 800 600 pixels, file size: 447 KB), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:JimIrwin, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Lehigh_Valley_Railroad_System_Map.svg&oldid=460606778, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Conrail maintained the line as a main line into the New York City area. [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]. {#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. (.25 cu. ft.), Northern Central Railway / Committee Minute Book, 1875-1914. ft.), PRR / VP of Eastern Region / Press Copy Plan Book, 1899-1907. (.15 cu. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Contract Book of George B. Roberts, 1869-1884. Leadership of the company transferred smoothly to Charles Hartshorne, who had been vice president under Packer. Finally in 1887 the two railroads reached a settlement, and construction of the LVRR's Jersey City freight yard began. 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. Cassatt and James McCrea, ca 1899-1913. The LVRR's Newark and Roselle Railway in 1891 brought the line from Roselle into Newark, where passengers connected to the Pennsylvania Railroad. 93-236, 87 Stat. The first leg of the construction to Jersey City was the Roselle and South Plainfield Railway in 1888 which connected with the CNJ at Roselle for access over the CNJ to the Hudson River waterfront in Jersey City. 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. ft.), Downingtown and Lancaster Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. 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. (1 cu. Lehigh Valley Railroad Company records, 1870-1962. [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. (.1 cu. 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: Clement, 1935-1949. ft.), PRR / VP Central Region / Blueprint Track Chart of Branch Lines, 1938. ft.), Girard Point Storage / Record of Deeds, 1881-1896. This allowed the line's eastbound grade to be reduced and a shorter route for handling through traffic established. (.1 cu. 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.), PRR / Secretary / Imprint File, 1904-1968. Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway | Train Rides in Jim Thorpe, PA Visit RBMNRR-passenger.com to see train trips originating from our other locations. (.4 cu. [26] The railroad had survived the economic depression of 1873 and was seeing its business recover. The line is part of Norfolk Southern's Harrisburg Division and it is part of Norfolk Southern's Crescent Corridor, a railroad corridor. (.11 cu. ft.), Wilcox Railroad Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. From 1855 to 1879 the Lehigh Valley Railroad had grown from its original road between Mauch Chunk and Easton, to include 658 miles of track as far away as Buffalo and New York City. Cassat, 1893-1903. 1948: ALCO PA passenger diesels replace steam on all passenger runs. (152 cu. Photos not available for this variation. (2006) (.1 cu. [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. (21 cu. 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). Full Promotional Video: Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway (.1 cu. ft.), PRR / VP of Eastern Region / Locality Files, 1918-1936. (.25 cu. Most of the other remaining Lehigh Valley track serves as branch lines, or has been sold to shortline and regional operators. 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. w/ Val. (.55 cu. (.15 cu. In 1973, the United States Congress acted to create a bill to nationalize all bankrupt railroads which included the LV. In addition, we now hold a physical volume entitled Real Estate Atlas of the Western Pennsylvania Railroad, Butler Division, [ca. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Minute Books of the Road Committee, 1847-1948. 1860-1878] (1 volume) {#286m.1525} which shows track layouts and property ownership along the tracks for what later became part of the Conemaugh Division of the PRR in northwestern Pennsylvania. Young, 1929-1943. (.4 cu. are Interested, 1962. Names Alter, R. H. Pennsylvania Railroad. (.03 cu. The 1860s saw an expansion of the LVRR northward to the Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, area and up the Susquehanna River to the New York state line. File usage on Commons. (.1 cu. 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. In many cases the Rights of Way were not perpetual, but were granted for, say, 99 years. 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. ft.), PRR / VP of Operation / Chief of Motive Power / Letter Books, 1926. (.1 cu. The followingarethe primary series of railroad map records that are processed and readily available for use: For track maps of the Erie and D, L & W lines,seeTrack Maps of the Erie Railroad and the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, circa 1917-1976, Series {#300m164}. ft.), Ridgeway and Clearfield Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. VDOMDHTMLtml> Map of the Pennsylvania, Reading, and Lehigh Valley Railroads, and their connections. (1.34 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. (12 cu. (3 cu. Finally after settling the legal issues, the Newark Bay was bridged in 1892 by the Jersey City, Newark and Western Railway and connected to the National Docks Railway, which was partly owned by the LVRR and which reached the LVRR's terminal. It was followed by the "Catasauqua" 4-4-0 and "Lehigh" 4-6-0, which were also Norris & Sons engines. ft.), PRR / President / Clement / Eastern Region Coordinating Committee Files, 1933-1936. It opened a hotel in Glen Summit, Pennsylvania, called the Glen Summit Hotel to serve lunch to passengers traveling on the line. The Lehigh Valley Railroad remained in operation during the 1970 bankruptcy, as was the common practice of the time. ft.), Leechburg Company / Minute Books, 1937-1954. [31], In Pennsylvania, the Lehigh scored a coup by obtaining the charter formerly held by the Schuykill Haven and Lehigh River Railroad in 1886. The Chandler Acts of 1938-9 provided a new form of relief for railroads, allowing them to restructure their debt while continuing to operate. (.02 cu. (.25 cu. (.2 cu. ft.), VP of Real Estate / Letter Press Books of W.H. ft.), State Realty Company / Minute Book, 1907-1909. The Association of American Railroads, which opposed nationalization, submitted an alternate proposal for a government-funded private company. The line and the rest of the Lehigh Valley Railroad was absorbed into Conrail in 1976 and was maintained as a main line into the New York City area. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Corporate Histories Prepared in Accord. The railroad ended operations in 1976 and merged into Conrail along with several northeastern railroads that same year. (.5 cu. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Printed Abstracts of Title, 1869, 1875. 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. (.1 cu. (1 cu. The first acquisitions were the Beaver Meadow Railroad and Coal Company, which included a few hundred acres of coal land, and the Penn Haven and White Haven Railroad. Abandoned Rails of the Lehigh Valley Railroad LV. When the LVRR opened, those producers eagerly sent their product by the railroad instead of canal, and within two years of its construction the LVRR was carrying over 400,000 tons of coal annually. In the years leading to 1973, the freight railroad system in the northeast of the U.S. was collapsing. The Lehigh Valley Railroad was another of the many Northeastern carriers built to move anthracite coal from eastern Pennsylvania. [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. ft.), Northern Central Railroad / Committee Minute Book, 1875-1914. In 1870, the Lehigh Valley Railroad acquired trackage rights to Auburn, New York, on the Southern Central Railroad.[1]. ft.), Bedford and Hollidaysburg Railroad / Minute Book, 1902-1911. The LVRR, wanting to capitalize on the tourist appeal of the cataract and to extend its anthracite coal business to the Midwestern United States, entered an agreement with the New York Central to use . 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. 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. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Library /Publicity Photographs, ca 1830-1960. 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. [28] LVRR subsidiary, Lehigh Valley Railway began constructing the main line's northern part from Buffalo to Lancaster, New York, in 1883, a total distance of ten miles. ft.), Philadelphia and Erie Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. President Richard Nixon signed the Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973 into law. 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. ft.), PRR / VP of Operation / Chief of Motive Power / Condition of Frt. 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. (.02 cu. ft.), Susquehanna, Bloomsburg, and Berwick Railroad / Minute Book, 1902-1918. (3 cu. (5 cu. Its bankruptcy resulted in economic chaos, bringing on the financial panic of 1893 and forcing the LVRR to break the lease and resume its own operations, leaving it unable to pay dividends on its stock until 1904. The LVRR decided to expand more to the Northeastern New Jersey in order to reach its freight yards without using the CNJ main line. [1], On May 17, 1879, Asa Packer, the company's founder and leader, died at the age of 73. - Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway . File usage on other wikis. Lehigh Gorge Trains are located at 1 Susquehanna Street, Jim Thorpe, PA 18229 #570-325-8485 . Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for LV Lehigh Valley Railroad Depot (train station) at Andreas, Schuylkill Co., PA at the best online prices at eBay! At Three Bridges, New Jersey, in Readington Township, the line interchanges with Black River and Western Railroad. [14], The 1870s witnessed commencement of extension of the LVRR in a new direction. (13 cu. (.3 cu. Bridging Newark Bay proved difficult. Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co. The Easton and Amboy had already completed large docks and facilities for shipping coal at Perth Amboy upon an extensive tract of land fronting the Arthur Kill. (43 cu. (.05 cu. (.02 cu. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Poor's Railroad Manuals, 1923-1949. 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]). By December 31, 1925, the railroad controlled 1,363.7 miles of road and 3,533.3 miles of track. (.2 cu. ft.), Williamsport and Elmira Railroad / Annual Reports, 1856-1858. (.1 cu. . Some lines were subsequently abandoned and even dismantled long before the expiration date came up. 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. (1 cu. (17 cu. The Lehigh Line still exists and still serves as a major freight railroad line that operates in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. ft.), Kensington and Tacony Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. ft.), PRR / VP of Law / Riot Docket and Ejectment Suits, 1877-1895. In 1875, the holdings were consolidated into the Lehigh Valley Coal Company, which was wholly owned by the LVRR. The series is currently being processed, and an item-level Excel spreadsheet detailing drawings that have been catalogued thus far is available in the Archives search room, and can be obtained as an email attachment from the Photo by Doug Lilly. (MP 13/MP 13a/MP13c), 1896-1920. (3 cu. ft.), Ridgeway and Clearfield Railroad / Minute Book, 1882-1911. [38] Through bonds issued by the D&H, he obtained 30% of the LVRR stock, and won the support of nearly half the stockholders. ft.), PRR / Comptroller / Cash Books for the Trust Created for Purchase of Securities, 1878-1939. ft.), Erie Railroad / Tax Registers, 1891-1915. 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. 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). At the time of his death, the railroad was shipping 4.4 million tons of coal annually over 657 miles (1,057km) of track, using 235 engines, 24,461 coal cars, and over 2,000 freight cars of various kinds. (1 cu. (.3 cu. The former Lehigh Valley tracks between Manville, New Jersey, and Newark are operated separately by Conrail Shared Assets Operations as their own Lehigh Line. The LVRR began construction of a series of railroads to connect the Easton and Amboy line (Easton and Amboy Railroad) to Jersey City. (.1 cu. N Scale Lehigh Valley locomotive by Life-Like. and Executive Comm., 1853-1906. In 1856, the "E. A. Packer" 4-4-0 was purchased from William Mason of Taunton, Massachusetts. At the time, anthracite was transported by boat down the Lehigh River. (.1 cu. Passengers preferred the convenience of automobiles to trains, and airlines much later provided faster long-distance travel than trains. (.1 cu. ft.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / Annual Statement of Charges and Credits to the Investment Account for Property (BV 589), 1917-1930. ft.), Chambersburg Land and Improvement Company / Minute Book, 1890-1905. (.2 cu. (.10 cu. (.1 cu. Countries. On June 21, 1970, the Penn Central declared bankruptcy and sought bankruptcy protection. [4] All this changed in October 1851, when Asa Packer took majority control of the DLS&S.
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