You may be trying to access this site from a secured browser on the server. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Secretary's Correspondence, 1860-1966 (1905-1966). (1 cu. (59 cu. (1.25 cu. Construction of a rail line to the New York state line started immediately and, in 1867, the line was complete from Wilkes-Barre to Waverly, New York, where coal was transferred to the broad gauge Erie Railroad and shipped to western markets through Buffalo, New York. 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}. Condition: Used. East of the junction with the Reading Line in Allentown and in Bethlehem, the line serves as Norfolk Southern's main corridor in and out of the Port of New York and New Jersey, and the New York Metro Area at large, as Norfolk Southern doesn't currently use the eastern half of its Southern Tier Line, which follows the Delaware River from Port Jervis north to Binghamton, New York, and which is now (2022) operated by the Central New York Railroad. The restructuring allowed the LVRR to extend the maturity of its mortgages, but it needed to repeat the process in 1950. (.1 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. w/ Val. 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. ft.), Berkshire Land Company / Cash Book, 1945-1953. Names Alter, R. H. Pennsylvania Railroad. 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. [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. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Pamphlet Description of Corporations in which PRR and Subs. (.1 cu. (.02 cu. 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. Abandoned Lines By mileage, no state comes close to the abandonments suffered in Pennsylvania, which now amounts to roughly 6,500 miles. Coverage includes locations in the states of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York. The Easton and Amboy was used as a connection to the New York metropolitan area, with a terminus in Jersey City, New Jersey. The section between Allentown and Mauch Chunk opened on September 12. [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. 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. System Map (1940) An official, 1940 system map of the Lehigh & New England Railroad. (1 cu. The line hosts approximately twenty-five trains per day, with traffic peaking at the end of the week. 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. (.02 cu. This allowed the line's eastbound grade to be reduced and a shorter route for handling through traffic established. (.5 cu. By the 1960s, railroads in the East were struggling to survive. The banking giant J. P. Morgan stepped in to refinance the LVRR debt and obtained control of the railroad in the process. N Scale Lehigh Valley locomotive by Life-Like. 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. (1 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. (.2 cu. Creator: Lehigh Valley Railroad Company Quanitities: 6 cubic feet. In New Jersey, the LVRR embarked on a decade-long legal battle with the CNJ over terminal facilities in Jersey City. 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. He was also an enthusiastic member of the Society's modeling committee . ft.), State Realty Company / Minute Book, 1907-1909. Fowler's Panoramac Bird's Eye Maps, 1884-1905, recently added railroad maps that may not be included in the old topical sections (search for the word "rail" or "railroad"). ft.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / Valuable Papers Files, 1850-1966. :-) Disclaimers: [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. So, its motto, Route Of The Black Diamond, was quite befitting and led directly to both its rise in prosperity and downfall into bankruptcy. This microfilm, such as it is, is our best and most comprehensive source of PRR maps at this time. (2.25 cu. The lists were constructed by doing word searches of the narrative series descriptions for the designated words: maps, tracks and real estate. (.1 cu. [1], Further rounds of acquisitions took place in 1868. ft.), Pioneer Real Estate Company / Minute Book, 1946-1947. 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. . [13][35] Unfortunately, it overreached and in 1893 was unable to meet its obligations. The Lehigh Valley Railroad began providing service to Hemlock lake in 1895. In 1895, the LVRR constructed the Greenville and Hudson Railway parallel with the national docks in order to relieve congestion and have a wholly-owned route into Jersey City. Coal, steel, passengers, and various other freight could be carried via the Lehigh Valley Railroad to either the Great Lakes or . Most of the traffic along the line consists of intermodal and general merchandise trains going to yards such as Oak Island Yard in Newark, New Jersey, and Croxton Yard in Jersey City. 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. In 1875, the holdings were consolidated into the Lehigh Valley Coal Company, which was wholly owned by the LVRR. The train arrives from far away and passes the camera, while workers are waving their handkerchiefs.[37]. The images on the film are arranged geographically, i.e. The Lehigh Valley Railroad's original and primary route between Easton and Allentown was built in 1855. (43 cu. On April 1, 1976, major portions of the assets of the bankrupt Lehigh Valley Railroad were acquired by Conrail. 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.), Pittsburgh and Lake Erie / Railroad Annual Reports, 1967, 1969, 1972-1974, 1976-1977. 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. ft.), Susquehanna Coal Company / Leases, 1883-1939. At Phillipsburg, New Jersey, the Belvidere Delaware Railroad connected to Trenton, New Jersey. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Minute Books of the Real Estate Committee, 1869-1918. Some of the lines and branches covered in the series'twenty-four boxes include: For maps of the routes and land holdings of the Lehigh and New England Railroad, the series The United States Railroad Administration controlled the railroad from 1918 to 1920, at which time control was transferred back to the private companies. (1 cu. (1.5 cu. ft.), PRR / President / Subject Index to Presidential Corr. 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). 1948: ALCO PA passenger diesels replace steam on all passenger runs. 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. (.10 cu. Bankruptcy trustee July 1970August 1974. Passengers preferred the convenience of automobiles to trains, and airlines much later provided faster long-distance travel than trains. ft.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / List of Roadway Completion Reports (BV 586), 1919-1927. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Library / Library Reference Materials, ca 1834-1963. ft.), Enola Realty Company / Property Sales Accounts, 1905-1914. He served as chairman of the board while the presidency was vacant until PRR takeover. 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. In 1870, the Lehigh Valley Railroad acquired trackage rights to Auburn, New York, on the Southern Central Railroad.[1]. Train Cars and Work Equip. (1.3 cu. James Madison Porter was the first President of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. Ball, Chief Conveyancer and Benjamin W. Carskaddon, Assistant Real Estate Agent, 1876-1902. (297 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. Digitized content from the collections of Cornell University Library Lehigh Valley Railroad Station was a beautiful building that dated back to 1890. A pair of ALCO FA-2 FB-2 car body diesel-electric locomotives were also purchased to augment the PAs when necessary. 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 . Other RBMN Train Rides . It also continued to grow and develop its routes in Pennsylvania. 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. Although the roads effectively ignored the Act and their sales agents continued to meet and set prices, the agreements were never effective for long. It opened a hotel in Glen Summit, Pennsylvania, called the Glen Summit Hotel to serve lunch to passengers traveling on the line. (.1 cu. File usage on Commons. Lehigh Valley Railroad Company records, 1870-1962. 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. Cassatt and James McCrea, ca 1899-1913. 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. Ended: Mar 02, 2023. In 1891, the LVRR consolidated the Roselle and South Plainfield Railway into the Lehigh Valley Terminal Railway, along with the other companies which formed the route from South Plainfield to the Jersey City terminal. ft.). ft.), Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad / Contract Books, 1864-1891. That southern field held the largest reserves of anthracite in Pennsylvania and accounted for a large percentage of the total production. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Minute Books of the Road Committee, 1847-1948. 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. 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. Finally, in 1889, the LVRR gained control of the Geneva, Ithaca, and Sayre Railroad and completed its line of rail through New York. 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. F. A . 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.), Buffalo Creek Railroad / Valuable Papers Files, 1868-1967. (.1 cu. ft.), Wilcox Railroad Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Guide for the PRR with Extensive Map Including the Entire Route, 1855. (.01 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: No comprehensive finding aid exists for these records. (3 cu. File usage on other wikis. The Lehigh Valley Railroad was another of the many Northeastern carriers built to move anthracite coal from eastern Pennsylvania. (1.34 cu. To reach Wilkes-Barre, the LVRR began constructing an extension from White Haven, Pennsylvania, to Wilkes-Barre. (17 cu. ft.), Pennsylvania and North Western Railroad / Annual Reports, 1890-1901. By controlling supply, the coal combination attempted to keep prices and profits high. ft.), PRR / VP of Operation / Chief of Motive Power / Letter Books, 1926. (MP 13/MP 13a/MP13c), 1896-1920. Another series relating to PRR real estate holdings, rights of way and agreements is the Valuable Papers File, [ca. Lehigh Valley Railroad; Discussion related to the Lehigh Valley Railroad and predecessors for the period 1846-1976. (.1 cu. ft.), PRR / VP of Altoona Works / Record of Operating Expenses of the Juniata Shop, 1914-1918. (9 cu. In 1883, Hartshorne retired to allow Harry E. Packer, Asa's 32-year-old youngest son, to assume the Presidency. (.2 cu. (.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.), PRR / Comptroller / Cash Books for the Trust Created for Purchase of Securities, 1878-1939. ft.), Philadelphia and Erie Railroad / Minute Book of the Road Committee, Finance Comm.