[1], Further rounds of acquisitions took place in 1868. These maps, bridge and structure drawings remains unprocessed. 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. ft.), PRR / President / Presidential Correspondence of A.J. 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. (.2 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. (.5 cu. This allowed the line's eastbound grade to be reduced and a shorter route for handling through traffic established. This is currently the last time the line has been downsized. Other RBMN Train Rides . of Law / Miscellaneous Interstate Commerce Commission Case Files, 1927-1935. Ousting President Elisha P. Wilbur and several directors in 1897, the Morgan company installed W. Alfred Walter as president and seated its own directors. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Survey Books and Legal Papers of the Pennsylvania Canal Company, 1857-1922. ft.), Enola Realty Company / Minute Books, 1905-1931. ft.), PRR / VP of Altoona Works / Record of Operating Expenses of the Juniata Shop, 1914-1918. 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 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.), Erie Railroad / Tax Registers, 1891-1915. ft.), Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad / Agreements, Leases and Mortgage, 1847-1886. The Lehigh Line still exists and still serves as a major freight railroad line that operates in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. 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.), Clearfield and Jefferson Railway / Annual Reports, 1886-1888. By the 1960s, railroads in the East were struggling to survive. (.4 cu. (.55 cu. (.03 cu. 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. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. Clement, 1935-1949. (.25 cu. (1.25 cu. 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. 93-236, 87 Stat. (.1 cu. ft.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / Record of Expenditures Under Authority of Forms 1416, ca 1917-1926. (.01 cu. Conrail maintained the line as a main line into the New York City area. 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. 1948: ALCO PA passenger diesels replace steam on all passenger runs. 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. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Reports on Coal and Coal Mines, 1861-1864. 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.), PRR / Secretary / Pamphlet Description of Corporations in which PRR and Subs. Oil and gas were supplanting coal as the fuel of choice. 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. The railroad then set its sights northward. (bridge still exists today. (.1 cu. Canal, 1901. ft.), PRR / VP of Finance / Treasurer / Treasurer's Cash Books, 1847-1863, 1865-1925. ft.), PRR / Secretary / General Correspondence Files, ca 1887-1972. ft.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / Statements of Additions and Betterments (GA-8), 1918-1929, 1931-1932. (.11 cu. In the years leading to 1973, the freight railroad system in the northeast of the U.S. was collapsing. ft.), Harrisburg, Portsmouth, Mt. (1 cu. 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. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Library /Publicity Photographs, ca 1830-1960. 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. [2] It was sometimes known as the Route of the Black Diamond, named after the anthracite it transported. At Three Bridges, New Jersey, in Readington Township, the line interchanges with Black River and Western Railroad. By 1859 it had 600 coal cars and 19 engines. (.1 cu. It also continued to grow and develop its routes in Pennsylvania. Budd Rail Diesel Car service would continue on a branch line (Lehighton-Hazleton) for an additional four days. The Pennsylvania Railroad in 1962 requested ICC authorization to acquire complete control of the LVRR through a swap of PRR stock for LVRR and elimination of the voting trust that had been in place since 1941. On June 21, 1970, the Penn Central declared bankruptcy and sought bankruptcy protection. Engineering Drawings, [ca.1886-1940 (bulk: 1915-1930)]{#311m.284} will be of interest. The purchase of the Penn Haven and White Haven was the first step in expanding to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. The LVRR shareholders received shares of the now independent Lehigh Valley Coal Company, but the railroad no longer had management control of the production, contracts, and sales of its largest customer. 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. ft.), PRR / VP of Special Services / Water Company Files, 1905-1956. (.1 cu. 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. He served as chairman of the board while the presidency was vacant until PRR takeover. (297 cu. [4] All this changed in October 1851, when Asa Packer took majority control of the DLS&S. 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. Please enable scripts and reload this page. Lehigh Valley Railroad Maps The maps on the following pages, based on the LVRR right-of-way as of September 24, 1936, were created by the ARHS: New Jersey Mainline - from Jutland to Jersey City M&H Area and Mainline - Mahanoy and Hazleton Division, as well as the mainline from Lizard Creek Jct. The two most popular reasons for wishing to consult railroad-related land records are property ownership investigations and historical research. [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. Please note: There also exists an unprocessed series of PRR/Penn Central maps entitled: Architectural Drawings and Maps, ca 1818-1970 (1883-1965). N Scale Lehigh Valley locomotive by Life-Like. (.1 cu. In the early part of October 1855, a contract was made with Howard & Co. of Philadelphia to do the freighting business of the railroad (except coal, iron, and iron ore). (.0 cu. 1905 - Hojack swing bridge built at Charlotte. The lists were constructed by doing word searches of the narrative series descriptions for the designated words: maps, tracks and real estate. plaindealing From shop plaindealing. ft.), PRR / VP of Special Services / Penn Central Merger Files, 1963-1965. 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 Eastern Region / Letter Books, 1924-1926. ft.), Mifflin and Centre County Railroad / Monthly Construction Accounts, 1862-1869. Top of page Skip to main content (.4 cu. [10] The LVRR recognized that its own continued prosperity depended on obtaining what coal lands remained. Eventually, the Easton and Amboy Railroad was absorbed into the parent Lehigh Valley Railroad. linearly along particular rail lines. ft.), PRR / Comptroller / Cash Books for the Trust Created for Purchase of Securities, 1878-1939. (3 cu. 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. The company controlled 30,000 acres (120km2) of coal-producing lands and was expanding rapidly into New York and New Jersey. 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. to Glen Summit Springs ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Letter Press Books of J.C. Wilson, Assistant Chief Engineer and Real Estate Agent, 1876-1889. Additional passenger trains ran from Philadelphia to Scranton and westward. The "T" intersection is also visible on the map where the trains would turn into the depot at the village of Hemlock. [24] The marshalling yard is now the residential area known as Harbortown. (1 cu. 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]. Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway | Train Rides in Jim Thorpe, PA Visit RBMNRR-passenger.com to see train trips originating from our other locations. . (2 cu. At the time, anthracite was transported by boat down the Lehigh River. ft.), Enola Realty Company / Property Sales Accounts, 1905-1914. Conrail integrated former CNJ main line leased trackage into the line and kept the line in continuous operation (since 1855); however, it downsized the line in the northwest from the Buffalo area of New York State: first to Sayre Yard in Sayre, Pennsylvania; then to Mehoopany, Pennsylvania; and finally to Penn Haven Junction in Lehigh Township, Carbon County, Pennsylvania. 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. Lehigh Valley Railroad; Discussion related to the Lehigh Valley Railroad and predecessors for the period 1846-1976. Although the roads effectively ignored the Act and their sales agents continued to meet and set prices, the agreements were never effective for long. [34] The LVRR obtained a 5-year agreement to use the CNJ line to access the terminal, which opened in 1889. ft.), Ridgeway and Clearfield Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. The Valuable Papers are arranged numerically by file number, and are indexed by 27 rolls of 16 mm microfilm (roll #s RRV 1073-1099) in a variety of ways: alphabetically by personal or corporate name of parties, alphabeticaly by name of geographical location, and numerically by file number. After the U.S. entered World War I, the railroads were nationalized in order to prevent strikes and interruptions. Full Promotional Video: Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway Coverage includes locations in the states of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York. (5 cu. (.1 cu. ft.), Johnsonburg Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. Lehigh Valley Pennsylvania Railroad Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh This 5-railroad network will remain essentially unchanged for the first half of the 20th Century. 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 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). The railroad also published a monthly magazine promoting travel on the train called the "Black Diamond Express Monthly". (.10 cu. The line became known as the Lehigh Line during Conrail ownership. 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 ft.), Valley Real Estate Company / Minute Book, 1907-1922. [14], The 1870s witnessed commencement of extension of the LVRR in a new direction. (.1 cu. The original maps were never transferred to the Archives, but a book by book inventory of the film exists. 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.), Leechburg Company / Minute Books, 1937-1954. (.15 cu. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Minute Books of the Real Estate Committee, 1869-1918. Bankruptcy trustee from August 1974 to April 1976. ft.), which was maintained by the Secretary's office. ft.), Northern Central Railroad / Mortgage of the Northern Central Railway to Wistar Morris and Josiah Bacon, Trustees, 1868. (.2 cu. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Post Office Files, 1923-1933. (6.5 cu. The banking giant J. P. Morgan stepped in to refinance the LVRR debt and obtained control of the railroad in the process. ft.), Kensington and Tacony Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. 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. Original file (SVG file, nominally 800 600 pixels, file size: 447 KB). (.11 cu. ft.), Bell's Gap Railroad / Annual Reports, 1873-1889. Winning bid: US $15.00. 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. ft.), Manor Real Estate and Trust Company / Property Ledger, 1886-1916. 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.), PRR / Secretary / Guide for the PRR with Extensive Map Including the Entire Route, 1855. By controlling supply, the coal combination attempted to keep prices and profits high. Coal, steel, passengers, and various other freight could be carried via the Lehigh Valley Railroad to either the Great Lakes or . 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. (1 cu. [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. (.5 cu. [2][13] By 1893, the LVRR owned or controlled 53,000 acres (210km2) of coal lands. President Richard Nixon signed the Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973 into law. Construction began in earnest in 1853, and the line opened between Easton and Allentown on June 11, 1855. (.1 cu. [18] For most of its length, it ran parallel to the LVRR. (.02 cu. Wilson, Chief Engineer, 1881-1884. 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 . ft.), Williamsport and Elmira Railroad / Annual Reports, 1856-1858. [42], Following the Great Depression, the railroad had a few periods of prosperity, but was clearly in a slow decline. The Penn Haven and White Haven Railroad allowed the LV to reach White Haven. (3 cu. 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. Bridging Newark Bay proved difficult. ft.), Western Pennsylvania Railroad / Minute Books, 1860-1903. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Annual Reports of Water Companies, 1914. 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. 1850-1967] (157 cu. The first such combination occurred in 1873, followed by others in 1878, 1884, and 1886. Following Federal legislation which stopped the operation of such service, the lake line was sold to private interests in 1920. (12 cu. (2 cu. The remainder of the assets were disposed of by the estate until it was folded into the non-railroad Penn Central Corporation in the early 1980s. (.3 cu. 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. This route became important to Conrail as an alternate route to avoid Amtrak's former PRR/PC Northeast Corridor electrified route. (.1 cu. [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. (1 cu. (1.25 cu. (2006) [39], Following the defeat of its plan, the D&H sold its stock to the Pennsylvania Railroad. ft.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / General Correspondence Files, 1972-1976. In 1916, a horrendous explosion occurred at the facility, destroying ships and buildings, and breaking windows in Manhattan. ft.), PRR / VP of Purchase / General Correspondence and Confidential Files of C.D. 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. 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. Prior to that time, the Temple Iron Company was a small concern that happened to have a broad charter allowing it to act as a holding company. :-) Disclaimers: ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Lease and Agreement Book, 1858-1889. ft.), PRR / V.P. LVRR Map 1 2016-08-10T14:17:31 . ft.), Philadelphia and Erie Railroad / Report to the Superintendant of the Tenth Census, 1880. By 1970, this had dwindled to 927 miles of road and 1963 miles of track. Maps of North America. ft.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / List of Roadway Completion Reports (BV 586), 1919-1927. 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. 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. [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. Some lines were subsequently abandoned and even dismantled long before the expiration date came up. System Map (1940) An official, 1940 system map of the Lehigh & New England Railroad. 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! ft.), Manor Real Estate and Trust Company / Indexes to Minutes, 1870-1954. ft.), Manor Real Estate and Trust Company / Ledgers, 1903-1925. ft.), Shamokin Valley and Pottsville Railroad / Acts of Assembly Relating to the Shamokin Valley and Pottsville Railroad, 1858. The railroad was chartered on August 2, 1847, and elected James Madison Porter its president on October 21. The Lehigh Valley Railroad began providing service to Hemlock lake in 1895. The South Basin terminal was used solely for freight, having docks and car float facilities. 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. ft.), Enola Realty Company / Journals, 1905-1932. ft.), Chambersburg Land and Improvement Company / Minute Book, 1890-1905. It was followed by the "Catasauqua" 4-4-0 and "Lehigh" 4-6-0, which were also Norris & Sons engines. Lehigh Valley Railroad Station was a beautiful building that dated back to 1890. Countries. 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. [26] The railroad had survived the economic depression of 1873 and was seeing its business recover. (11 cu. In 1866, Master Mechanic Alexander Mitchell designed the "Consolidation", 1945: The first Lehigh Valley Railroad mainline diesels arrive in the form of. ft.), PRR / President / Presidential Correspondence of Samuel Rea, 1913-1925. 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. 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. Due to declining passenger patronage, the Lehigh Valley successfully petitioned the Interstate Commerce Commission to terminate all passenger service. By 1931, the PRR controlled 51% of the LVRR stock. (.16 cu. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Board Files: Wire and Pipe Crossing Agreements, 1925-1957. Joy and Lancaster Railroad / Minute Book of the Committee on Real Estate and the Road, 1850-1855. 1902 - NYC introduces The 20th Century Limited. Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps. Finally in 1887 the two railroads reached a settlement, and construction of the LVRR's Jersey City freight yard began. (2.25 cu. Lehigh Valley Railroad. (.1 cu. 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. The hotel remained with the company until 1909, when it was bought by residents of the surrounding cottages. Parts. Dates / Origin Date Issued: 1887 Place: Philadelphia? 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]). ft.), Suquehanna, Bloomsburg, and Berwick Railroad - Ledger, 1902-1904. File history. ft.), Frederick and Northern Railroad / Minute Book, 1873-1897. Indicates major drainage, cities and towns, and names the railroads along the lines. (.25 cu. Photo by Doug Lilly. (.2 cu. These engineering drawings consist primarily of maps and structure drawings, although other subjects such as bridges, grade crossings and equipments are also documented. (1 cu. 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. 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. (3 cu. United States (except New York) States. [13] With these acquisitions, the LVRR obtained the right to mine coal as well as transport it. 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. (143 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]. In 1920, the LVRR sold its lake line company, the Lehigh Valley Transportation Line, to private interests due to new federal legislation which stopped the practice of railroads owning lake lines. (.2 cu. The Lehigh Valley Railroad (reporting mark LV) was a railroad built in the Northeastern United States to haul anthracite coal from the Coal Region in Pennsylvania. (2 cu. In 1882, the LVRR began an extensive expansion into New York from Waverly to Buffalo. By December 31, 1925, the railroad controlled 1,363.7 miles of road and 3,533.3 miles of track. {#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.
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