Engineering Drawings, [ca.1886-1940 (bulk: 1915-1930)]{#311m.284} will be of interest. N Scale Lehigh Valley locomotive by Life-Like. (.5 cu. ft.), which was maintained by the Secretary's office. ft.), PRR / President / Presidential Correspondence of Samuel Rea, 1913-1925. The tracks from Dupont to Mehoopany became a new rail line called the Susquehanna Branch. ft.), Valley Real Estate Company / Minute Book, 1907-1922. (59 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]. 1948: ALCO PA passenger diesels replace steam on all passenger runs. (2 cu. (152 cu. Records vary as to scope and nature, including pipe and wire, trackage and crossing rights, real estate, physical facilities, financial obligations, operations with affiliated companies, governmental authorizations, purchases, and so forth. Packer brought additional financing to the railroad, installed Robert H. Sayre as chief engineer, and renamed the company the "Lehigh Valley Railroad." ft.), Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad / Agreements, Leases and Mortgage, 1847-1886. ft.), Pittsburgh and Lake Erie / Railroad Annual Reports, 1967, 1969, 1972-1974, 1976-1977. Oil and gas were supplanting coal as the fuel of choice. (.4 cu. ft.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / Statements of Additions and Betterments (GA-8), 1918-1929, 1931-1932. ft.), PRR / VP Eastern Region / Letter Books, 1924-1926. Ball, Chief Conveyancer and Benjamin W. Carskaddon, Assistant Real Estate Agent, 1876-1902. First, it purchased a large parcel of land in Buffalo, the Tifft farm, for use as terminal facilities, and obtained a New York charter for the Lehigh Valley Railway (a similar name to the LVRR, but with "railway" instead). 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. 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. 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. (.2 cu. Creator: Lehigh Valley Railroad Company Quanitities: 6 cubic feet. Indicates major drainage, cities and towns, and names the railroads along the lines. 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. ft.), Williamsport and Elmira Railroad / Annual Reports, 1856-1858. [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 / VP of Operation / Chief of Motive Power / Letter Books, 1926. (.1 cu. (.03 cu. [50] The "3R Act," as it was called, provided interim funding to the bankrupt railroads and defined a new "Consolidated Rail Corporation" under the AAR's plan. 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 Special Services / Merger Testimony and Exhibits, 1962-1967. In 1875, the LVRR financed the addition of a third rail to the Erie Railroad main line so that cars could roll directly from colliery to the port at Buffalo. 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. The LVRR's Newark and Roselle Railway in 1891 brought the line from Roselle into Newark, where passengers connected to the Pennsylvania Railroad. 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. ft.), Riverfront Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. The line became known as the Lehigh Line during Conrail ownership. (.1 cu. (.25 cu. Then the CNJ opposed the LVRR's attempt to cross its line at Caven Point. 93-236, 87 Stat. 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. Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973, Pub.L. [6], The LVRR immediately became the trunk line down the Lehigh Valley, with numerous feeder railroads connecting and contributing to its traffic. ft.), PRR / President / Clement / Eastern Region Coordinating Committee Files, 1933-1936. (.02 cu. ft.), PRR / Comptroller / General Correspondence Files, 1924-1964. (.1 cu. The LVRR was approved for such a restructuring in 1940 when several large mortgage loans were due. (1.25 cu. Due to declining passenger patronage, the Lehigh Valley successfully petitioned the Interstate Commerce Commission to terminate all passenger service. 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. Keystone State. In 1883, Hartshorne retired to allow Harry E. Packer, Asa's 32-year-old youngest son, to assume the Presidency. Full Promotional Video: Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway . [39], Following the defeat of its plan, the D&H sold its stock to the Pennsylvania Railroad. A long segment west from Van Etten Junction to Buffalo was included in the Conrail takeover, but was mostly torn-up not long afterward. The economic depression following 1893 was harsh, and by 1897 the LVRR was in dire need of support. ft.), PRR / President / Presidential Correspondence of M.W. Lehigh Valley Railroad Company records, 1870-1962. In 1892, the Lehigh Valley Railroad completed its main line and established a western terminus in Buffa-lo, New York.At the same time, Niagara Falls had begun to flourish as a tourist attraction. (17 cu. He served as chairman of the board while the presidency was vacant until PRR takeover. Parts. [1] [53] The only daylight New York-Buffalo train, the "Black Diamond", was discontinued in 1959. (.5 cu. The owners still owned the property, but the railroad was allowed to conduct agreed-upon activities on the swath in question. [1] In the 1870s the LVRR acquired other large tracts of land starting at 13,000 acres (53km2) in 1870,[9] with an additional of 5,800 acres (23km2) in 1872,[12] and turned its eye toward expansion across New Jersey all the way to the New York City area. Please note: Not all of the Valuable Papers were deposited at the archives, so we may not hold all of the items referenced in the index. The Easton and Amboy was used as a connection to the New York metropolitan area, with a terminus in Jersey City, New Jersey. 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. [3], Little occurred between 1847 and 1851, save some limited grading near Allentown, Pennsylvania. [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. Top of page Skip to main content (1 cu. (.1 cu. LVRR Map 1 2016-08-10T14:17:31 . (11 cu. Free shipping for many products! On April 1, 1976, the LVRR, including its main line, was merged into the U.S. government's Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail) ending 130 years of existence and 121 years of operation of the LVRR. ft.), A publication by Thomas Townsend Taber (Thomas T. Taber III) entitled, PRR / Comptroller / Confidential Annual Reports of Affiliated Corporations, 1892-1959. A pair of ALCO FA-2 FB-2 car body diesel-electric locomotives were also purchased to augment the PAs when necessary. ft.), Manor Real Estate and Trust Company / Journals, 1903-1925. The Lehigh Valley Railroad's original and primary route between Easton and Allentown was built in 1855. ft.), Erie-Lackawanna Railway / General Correspondence Files, 1953-1967, Erie Railroad / Land Record Books,[ ca 1831-1915]. (1 cu. (.1 cu. Clement, 1935-1949. (1 cu. The Lehigh Valley Railroad began providing service to Hemlock lake in 1895. 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. 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. Please note: There also exists an unprocessed series of PRR/Penn Central maps entitled: Architectural Drawings and Maps, ca 1818-1970 (1883-1965). Canal, 1901. (.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 / Secretary / Board of Directors' Roll Books, 1918-1967. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / General Correspondence Files of the St. Lawrence Power Project, 1948-1954. 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. (.11 cu. ft.), PRR / VP of Special Services / Penn Central Merger Files, 1963-1965. 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.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / General Correspondence Files and Coal Mine Reports, 1930-1938. (3 cu. (1.25 cu. After the U.S. entered World War I, the railroads were nationalized in order to prevent strikes and interruptions. ft.), Bedford and Hollidaysburg Railroad / Minute Book, 1902-1911. 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). The Pennsylvania merged with the New York Central in 1968, but the Penn Central failed in 1970, causing a cascade of railroad failures throughout the East. [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. This took effect on February 4, 1961. ft.), Pioneer Real Estate Company / Minute Book, 1946-1947. ft.), PRR / Secretary / General Correspondence Files, ca 1887-1972. ft.), Clearfield and Jefferson Railway / Annual Reports, 1886-1888. (.25 cu. In 1870, the Lehigh Valley Railroad acquired trackage rights to Auburn, New York, on the Southern Central Railroad.[1]. (.21 cu. A daily freight train was put into operation leaving Easton in the morning and returning in the evening. (13 cu. Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway | Train Rides in Jim Thorpe, PA Visit RBMNRR-passenger.com to see train trips originating from our other locations. (1 cu. 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. Maps of North America. (.25 cu. That project failed, but the lands were later used for the LVRR's own terminal in 1889. (.1 cu. The 23 miles between Mauch Chunk and White Haven through the Lehigh Gorge, now the D&L Trail, was opened in 1864. 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. [18] For most of its length, it ran parallel to the LVRR. 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). (1 cu. It also built a passenger terminal in Buffalo in 1915. 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 . 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: ft.), Philadelphia and Erie Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. 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. ft.), PRR / President / Subject Index to Presidential Corr. (.6 cu. 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. ft.), Penn Central Corp. / General Correspondence Files, 1955-1976. Also, in 1914 the Panama Canal was completed, and the LVRR gained an important new market with ores shipped from South America to the Bethlehem Steel company. 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}. Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission, Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps forPennsylvania, Aerial Photographs and Index of the 1940 Aerial Survey of Pennsylvania, 1937-1942. Bankruptcy trustee July 1970August 1974. Across the river in Easton, Pennsylvania, the line interchanges with its Pennsylvania side branch line, the Portland Secondary, which extends from Easton to Portland, Pennsylvania, connecting to the Stroudsburg Secondary, which was originally part of the Lackawanna Old Road (or simply Old Road); the Stroudsburg Secondary goes under the Lackawanna Cut-Off and connects with the Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad. ft.), Wilcox Railroad Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. (.1 cu. By controlling supply, the coal combination attempted to keep prices and profits high. (1 cu. ft.), Philadelphia and Erie Railroad / Record of Track Material Loaned for Construction of Lumber Branches, 1895-1906. of F. Thomson and A.J. ft.), Western Pennsylvania Railroad / Minute Books, 1860-1903. (3 cu. (.10 cu. [1][19][bettersourceneeded][20]. Lehigh Valley Railroad. Map of the Pennsylvania, Reading, and Lehigh Valley Railroads, and their connections. (.02 cu. The Depression had been difficult for all the railroads, and Congress recognized that bankruptcy laws needed revision. The Easton and Amboy Railroad was a railroad built across central New Jersey by the Lehigh Valley Railroad to run from Phillipsburg, New Jersey, to Bound Brook, New Jersey, and it was built to connect the Lehigh Valley Railroad coal-hauling operations in Pennsylvania and the Port of New York and New Jersey to serve consumer markets in the New York metropolitan area, eliminating the Phillipsburg connection with the CNJ that had previously been the only outlet to the New York tidewater; until it was built, the terminus of the LVRR had been at Phillipsburg on the Delaware River opposite Easton, Pennsylvania. Conrail abandoned most of the route in New York State to Buffalo after 1976, considerably shortening the line. ft.), Katharine Water Company / Minute Book, 1904-1925. The Lehigh Line is a railroad line in central New Jersey, Northeastern Pennsylvania, and the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania.It is owned and operated by the Norfolk Southern Railway.The line runs west from the vicinity of the Port of New York and New Jersey via Conrail's Lehigh Line to the Susquehanna River valley at the south end of the Wyoming Valley Coal Region. Initially, the LVRR contracted with the CNJ for rights from Roselle to Jersey City, but the LVRR eventually finished construction to its terminal in Jersey City over the Newark and Roselle Railway, the Newark and Passaic Railway, the Jersey City, Newark, and Western Railway, and the Jersey City Terminal Railway. ft.), Cherry Tree and Dixonville Railroad / Minute Books, 1903-1943. 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. (2 cu. ft.), Valley Real Estate Company / Cash Book, 1907-1922. ft.), Manor Real Estate and Trust Company / Indexes to Minutes, 1870-1954. F. A . (2.25 cu. 1902 - NYC introduces The 20th Century Limited. Three months later the line branched out to the northwest past Allentown to Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, on September 12, 1855. On January 7, 1853, the railroad's name was changed to Lehigh Valley Railroad. 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]. Ousting President Elisha P. Wilbur and several directors in 1897, the Morgan company installed W. Alfred Walter as president and seated its own directors. Digitized content from the collections of Cornell University Library (.01 cu. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Minute Books of the Real Estate Committee, 1869-1918. 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). ft.), Pennsylvania and Midland Railroad / Court Proceedings, 1895-1899. It opened a hotel in Glen Summit, Pennsylvania, called the Glen Summit Hotel to serve lunch to passengers traveling on the line. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Minute Books of the Road Committee, 1847-1948. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Library /Publicity Photographs, ca 1830-1960. (2 cu. Asa Packer was elected President of the Lehigh Valley Railroad on January 13, 1862. ft.), Philadelphia and Erie Railroad / Report to the Superintendant of the Tenth Census, 1880. And the County Tax Assessment Office would have current information as to ownership of each geographic parcel if that is in question. ft.), Girard Point Storage / Record of Deeds, 1881-1896. Morgan. These operators include: The Lehigh Line was the Lehigh Valley Railroad's first rail line and served as the main line. 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 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. Although the heavy wartime traffic had left the railroad's plant and equipment in need of repair, the damage was partly offset by new equipment that had been purchased by the government. Lehigh Valley Railroad 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 . Any of the State Archives aerial photograph collections, including: images for these and other years available online via the, MG-286 Hollyman Publicity Photographs, ca 1940-1959. (1 cu. (11.9 cu. ft.), PRR / VP of Altoona Works / Record of Operating Expenses of the Juniata Shop, 1914-1918. 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! (.1 cu. Passengers preferred the convenience of automobiles to trains, and airlines much later provided faster long-distance travel than trains. Ended: Mar 02, 2023. [1], The port on Lake Erie at Buffalo was critical to the LVRR's shipments of coal to western markets and for receipt of grain sent by the West to eastern markets. By December 31, 1925, the railroad controlled 1,363.7 miles of road and 3,533.3 miles of track. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Rules and Regulations, 1858-1925. Please enable scripts and reload this page. Map of the Abandoned Rails of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. Dates / Origin Date Issued: 1887 Place: Philadelphia? In 1866, two years after the purchase of the Penn Haven and White Haven, the extension from White Haven to Wilkes-Barre opened.[1]. Train Cars and Work Equip. The route across Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Oak Island Yard remains important to the Norfolk Southern Railway and CSX Transportation today, the only two Class 1 railroads that are based in the Eastern United States. ft.), Susquehanna Coal Company / Leases, 1883-1939. The LVRR began construction of a series of railroads to connect the Easton and Amboy line (Easton and Amboy Railroad) to Jersey City. Most serviceable equipment not retained for company service was sold to other roads.

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