[1][19][bettersourceneeded][20]. The Lehigh Valley Railroad began providing service to Hemlock lake in 1895. Newly elected president Eben B. Thomas, formerly of the Erie, and his board of directors represented the combined interests of those railroads.[36]. (2 cu. (.3 cu. ft.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / General Correspondence Files, 1972-1976. (.5 cu. ft.), PRR / VP of Special Services / Penn Central Merger Files, 1963-1965. (.11 cu. (2 cu. (.10 cu. Engineering Drawings, [ca.1886-1940 (bulk: 1915-1930)]{#311m.284} will be of interest. Coal, steel, passengers, and various other freight could be carried via the Lehigh Valley Railroad to either the Great Lakes or . [3], Little occurred between 1847 and 1851, save some limited grading near Allentown, Pennsylvania. (.01 cu. In the following years, the Pennsylvania quietly obtained more stock, both directly and through railroads it controlled, primarily the Wabash. (.1 cu. 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. (5.6 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. 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. 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. (.02 cu. The Easton and Amboy was used as a connection to the New York metropolitan area, with a terminus in Jersey City, New Jersey. ft.), Valley Real Estate Company / Journal Entries, 1919. (1 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. ft.), Penn Central Corp. / General Correspondence Files, 1955-1976. 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. By 1970, this had dwindled to 927 miles of road and 1963 miles of track. Packer brought additional financing to the railroad, installed Robert H. Sayre as chief engineer, and renamed the company the "Lehigh Valley Railroad." (.15 cu. You may be trying to access this site from a secured browser on the server. 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 / V.P. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / General Correspondence Files and Coal Mine Reports, 1930-1938. It opened a hotel in Glen Summit, Pennsylvania, called the Glen Summit Hotel to serve lunch to passengers traveling on the line. The line is part of Norfolk Southern's Harrisburg Division and it is part of Norfolk Southern's Crescent Corridor, a railroad corridor. In the years leading to 1973, the freight railroad system in the northeast of the U.S. was collapsing. ft.), Susquehanna Coal Company / Leases, 1883-1939. In 1972, the Lehigh Valley Railroad assumed the remaining Pennsylvania trackage of the Central Railroad of New Jersey, a competing anthracite railroad which had entered bankruptcy as well. In 1866, two years after the purchase of the Penn Haven and White Haven, the extension from White Haven to Wilkes-Barre opened.[1]. w/ Val. (.03 cu. (.2 cu. Then the CNJ opposed the LVRR's attempt to cross its line at Caven Point. The railroad also published a monthly magazine promoting travel on the train called the "Black Diamond Express Monthly". 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. This took effect on February 4, 1961. 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. In 1864, the LVRR began acquiring feeder railroads and merging them with its system. [18] For most of its length, it ran parallel to the LVRR. Names Alter, R. H. Pennsylvania Railroad. 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. N Scale Lehigh Valley locomotive by Life-Like. At the end of that time period, the use rights would have to be re-negotiated, or full use and control would revert to the current property owner. This series primarily represents agreements that the PRR entered into with individuals, companies, and local governments. Wilson, Chief Engineer, 1881-1884. [47][note 1]. 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 ft.), PRR / Secretary / Board of Directors' Roll Books, 1918-1967. Asa Packer was elected President of the Lehigh Valley Railroad on January 13, 1862. 1948: ALCO PA passenger diesels replace steam on all passenger runs. These locomotives were also used in freight service during and after the era of LVRR passenger service. The 1890s were a period of turmoil for the LVRR. ft.), State Realty Company / Minute Book, 1907-1909. On June 21, 1970, the Penn Central declared bankruptcy and sought bankruptcy protection. (.11 cu. The LVRR was approved for such a restructuring in 1940 when several large mortgage loans were due. (11.9 cu. (2.25 cu. Photo by Doug Lilly. ft.), Pennsylvania and Midland Railroad / Court Proceedings, 1895-1899. ft.), Riverfront Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. (.1 cu. (1 cu. The 46-mile-long (74km) LVRR connected at Mauch Chunk with the Beaver Meadow Railroad. (.1 cu. (.3 cu. [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. ft.), Pioneer Real Estate Company / Minute Book, 1946-1947. 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. Talk of the railroad had been in the air since 1849 and eventually a Lehigh Valley track was laid into the valley east of Livonia Center. The former Lehigh Valley tracks between Manville, New Jersey, and Newark are operated separately by Conrail Shared Assets Operations as their own Lehigh Line. (.2 cu. ft.), Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad / Contract Books, 1864-1891. 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 railroad was chartered on August 2, 1847, and elected James Madison Porter its president on October 21. (13 cu. (.05 cu. 1 en:Hoboken Manufacturers' Railroad; 2 en:Bay Shore Connecting Railroad; 3 en:Whippany River Railroad ft.), PRR / VP of Operation / Chief of Motive Power / Condition of Frt. The majority of passenger equipment is believed to have been scrapped some time after February 1961. Other good sources of detailed real estate depictions are the, The "Transportation" section of the State Archives', #544, U.S. Geological Survey Topographic Maps, 1942-1973, #567, T.M. These maps, bridge and structure drawings remains unprocessed. (1.1 cu. The section between Allentown and Mauch Chunk opened on September 12. This page was last edited on 15 September 2020, at 21:11. The South Basin terminal was used solely for freight, having docks and car float facilities. (.1 cu. (.02 cu. Hurricane Agnes in 1972 damaged the rundown Northeast railway network, which put the solvency of other railroads including the LVRR in danger; the somewhat more solvent Erie Lackawanna Railway (EL) was also damaged by Hurricane Agnes. (5 cu. The line hosts approximately twenty-five trains per day, with traffic peaking at the end of the week. (.2 cu. [14] A year later, Harry Packer died of illness, and Asa's 51-year-old nephew Elisha Packer Wilbur was elected president, a position he held for 13 years.[27]. (.03 cu. 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. Throughout that decade, expansions continued into New York by taking over smaller lines and building new railroad. (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 / Secretary / Notes for Centennial History of PRR Company, ca 1946-1949. See original listing. [30] As a result of its leases and acquisitions, the Lehigh Valley gained a near-monopoly on traffic in the Finger Lakes region. ft.), PRR / President / Subject Index to Presidential Corr. Following Federal legislation which stopped the operation of such service, the lake line was sold to private interests in 1920. Subsequently, the LVRR favored engines from Baldwin Locomotive Works and William Mason, but tried many other designs as it experimented with motive power that could handle the line's heavy grades.[7]. (3 cu. (.1 cu. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Annual Reports and Data, 1920-1933. An sample frame of this film appears to the right of this paragraph, though not all frames show the names of property owners. (.53 cu. File history. In the war years 1914 to 1918, the Lehigh handled war materials and explosives at its Black Tom island facility, which had been obtained along with the National Docks Railroad in 1900. [10] The LVRR recognized that its own continued prosperity depended on obtaining what coal lands remained. 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. ft.), Ridgeway and Clearfield Railroad / Minute Book, 1882-1911. Budd Rail Diesel Car service would continue on a branch line (Lehighton-Hazleton) for an additional four days. The images on the film are arranged geographically, i.e. ft.), Berkshire Land Company / Journal and Ledger, 1939-1955. ft.), PRR / Secretary / One Hundredth Anniversary Historical Files, ca 1876-1946. On April 1, 1976, major portions of the assets of the bankrupt Lehigh Valley Railroad were acquired by Conrail. ft.), PRR / Comptroller / Cash Books for the Trust Created for Purchase of Securities, 1878-1939. 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. ft.), Susquehanna, Bloomsburg, and Berwick Railroad / Minute Book, 1902-1918. From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. Right-of-way agreements might be attached to or referenced in the chain of title (i.e. ft.), Valley Real Estate Company / Minute Book, 1907-1922. ft.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / Statements of Additions and Betterments (GA-8), 1918-1929, 1931-1932. Please enable scripts and reload this page. Several combinations occurred, but each fell apart as one road or another abrogated its agreement. (1 cu. The line makes notable connections with other Norfolk Southern lines such as the Reading Line and independent shortline railroads. [34] The LVRR obtained a 5-year agreement to use the CNJ line to access the terminal, which opened in 1889. 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. Ended: Mar 02, 2023. The LVRR began construction of a series of railroads to connect the Easton and Amboy line (Easton and Amboy Railroad) to Jersey City. Railroad Leader. President of the Lehigh Valley System Through War, He Recently Retired", Lehigh Valley Railroad Historical Society, Luzerne County PAGenWeb (One Hundred Years of The Lehigh Valley), Lehigh Valley pages on Western NY Railroad Archive, Beyond Steel: An Archive of Lehigh Valley Industry and Culture, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lehigh_Valley_Railroad&oldid=1141748396. 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. Canal, 1901. 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. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Reports on Coal and Coal Mines, 1861-1864. (1.3 cu. Most serviceable equipment not retained for company service was sold to other roads. James Madison Porter was the first President of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. (1.5 cu. (3 cu. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Survey Books and Legal Papers of the Pennsylvania Canal Company, 1857-1922. 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. (143 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 . United States (except New York) States. (.4 cu. 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.), Philadelphia and Erie Railroad / Agreement Book, 1853-1894. 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. The Chandler Acts of 1938-9 provided a new form of relief for railroads, allowing them to restructure their debt while continuing to operate. [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. V2A en:Lehigh Valley Terminal Railway; V2B en:Greenville and Hudson Railway; V2C en:National Docks Railway; V2D en:National Docks and New Jersey Junction Railway; V2E en:Irvington Railroad; Short lines . Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co. (.1 cu. The line became known as the Lehigh Line during Conrail ownership. 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. After the U.S. entered World War I, the railroads were nationalized in order to prevent strikes and interruptions. In some cases (yards, stations, repair facilities, etc.) [45], In 1944, the LVRR's gross revenues came close to $100,000,000 which was a milestone for the railroad.[1]. Ousting President Elisha P. Wilbur and several directors in 1897, the Morgan company installed W. Alfred Walter as president and seated its own directors. [2] It was sometimes known as the Route of the Black Diamond, named after the anthracite it transported. (29 cu. ft.), Northern Central Railroad / Mortgage of the Northern Central Railway to Wistar Morris and Josiah Bacon, Trustees, 1868. All structured data from the file namespace is available under the. [43] The terms of the restructurings precluded dividend payments until 1953, when LVRR common stock paid the first dividend since 1931. In 1973, the United States Congress acted to create a bill to nationalize all bankrupt railroads which included the LV. (.4 cu. The Penn Haven and White Haven Railroad allowed the LV to reach White Haven. 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. Size of this PNG preview of this SVG file: Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents. A pair of ALCO FA-2 FB-2 car body diesel-electric locomotives were also purchased to augment the PAs when necessary. Approximately 350,000 tons of anthracite moved to Perth Amboy during that year for transshipment by water. Among them: The primary passenger motive power for the LVRR in the diesel era was the ALCO PA-1 car body diesel-electric locomotive, of which the LVRR had fourteen. Proudly founded in 1681 as a place of tolerance and freedom. (25 cu. Finally in 1900, the LVRR purchased the National Docks Railway outright. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Pennsylvania Railroad and Long Island RR Directors' Inspection Trip Book, 1947. [1] Operations continued until the LVRR's bankruptcy in 1976.
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