ft.), PRR / Secretary / Imprint File, 1904-1968. [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. Lehigh Valley Railroad Station was a beautiful building that dated back to 1890. ft.), West Lane Garage Company / Minute Book, 1934-1943. ft.), Valley Real Estate Company / Cash Book, 1907-1922. 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.), Northern Central Railroad / Committee Minute Book, 1875-1914. Finally, in 1889, the LVRR gained control of the Geneva, Ithaca, and Sayre Railroad and completed its line of rail through New York. The production of the entire Middle Coal Field came to the LVRR over feeders to the Beaver Meadow: the Quakake Railroad, the Catawissa, Williamsport and Erie Railroad, the Hazleton Railroad, the Lehigh Luzerne Railroad and other smaller lines. Following Federal legislation which stopped the operation of such service, the lake line was sold to private interests in 1920. 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. Asa Packer was elected President of the Lehigh Valley Railroad on January 13, 1862. (.01 cu. [44] In 1957, the LVRR again stopped dividends. By 1970, this had dwindled to 927 miles of road and 1963 miles of track. The line was laid with a rail weighing 56 pounds per yard supported upon cross ties 6 x 7 inches and 7-1/2 feet long placed 2 feet apart and about a quarter of it was ballasted with stone or gravel. [38] Through bonds issued by the D&H, he obtained 30% of the LVRR stock, and won the support of nearly half the stockholders. 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. (25 cu. ft.), PRR / VP Eastern Region / Letter Books, 1924-1926. (5 cu. By the 1960s, railroads in the East were struggling to survive. Right-of-way agreements might be attached to or referenced in the chain of title (i.e. Photograph by Donald W. Furler, Furler-12-021-01 . ft.), Chambersburg Land and Improvement Company / Minute Book, 1890-1905. Most serviceable equipment not retained for company service was sold to other roads. ft.), Philadelphia and Erie Railroad / Record of Track Material Loaned for Construction of Lumber Branches, 1895-1906. 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 ft.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / Valuable Papers Files, 1850-1966. ft.), Philadelphia and Erie Railroad / Agreement Book, 1853-1894. The 1880s continued to be a period of growth, and the LVRR made important acquisitions in New York, expanded its reach into the southern coal field of Pennsylvania which had hitherto been the monopoly of the Reading, and successfully battled the CNJ over terminal facilities in Jersey City. Abandoned Rails of the Lehigh Valley Railroad LV. ft.), Susquehanna Coal Company / Minute Books, 1869-1940. ft.), PRR / VP of Altoona Works / Record of Operating Expenses of the Juniata Shop, 1914-1918. The line gave the LVRR a route into Pottsville, Pennsylvania, and the Schuylkill Valley coal fields.[32]. 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. The train arrives from far away and passes the camera, while workers are waving their handkerchiefs.[37]. 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.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Reports on Coal and Coal Mines, 1861-1864. 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. 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. Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973, Pub.L. That charter had been held by the Reading Railroad since 1860, when it had blocked construction in order to maintain its monopoly in the Southern Coal Field. ft.), Clearfield and Jefferson Railway / Annual Reports, 1886-1888. (.02 cu. ft.), PRR / President / Presidential Correspondence of Samuel Rea, 1913-1925. (1 cu. (2006) ft.), Manor Real Estate and Trust Company / Property Ledger, 1886-1916. Maps of North America. (.3 cu. :-)). (11.9 cu. 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. Dates / Origin Date Issued: 1887 Place: Philadelphia? 5 out of 5 stars (5,213) $ 19.50 FREE shipping Add to Favorites . 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. (3 cu. The railroad was chartered on August 2, 1847, and elected James Madison Porter its president on October 21. (59 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. Size of this PNG preview of this SVG file: 800 600 pixels. (.15 cu. Condition: Used. (5 cu. Budd Rail Diesel Car service would continue on a branch line (Lehighton-Hazleton) for an additional four days. 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. and Executive Comm., 1853-1906. The Penn Haven and White Haven Railroad allowed the LV to reach White Haven. (.1 cu. are Interested, 1962. 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. While researchers are welcome to come in and browse through the hundreds of boxes of rolled maps and drawings, Archives staff is not able to do research for non-visiting patrons in this series. (.02 cu. A massive proxy fight ensued, with existing President Edward Eugene Loomis narrowly retaining his position with the support of Edward T. Stotesbury of J. P. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Board of Directors' Inspection Trip Book, 1937. (2 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. ft.), PRR / President / Presidential Correspondence of A.J. [2][13] By 1893, the LVRR owned or controlled 53,000 acres (210km2) of coal lands. ft.), Johnsonburg Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. These tracks were laid and the Easton and Amboy Railroad was opened for business on June 28, 1875, with hauling coal. ft.), Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad / Agreements, Leases and Mortgage, 1847-1886. Several combinations occurred, but each fell apart as one road or another abrogated its agreement. The "T" intersection is also visible on the map where the trains would turn into the depot at the village of Hemlock. ft.), Baltimore and Potomac / Blueprint Book of Proposed Revision of Line and Grades in Washington, D.C., undated. [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. VDOMDHTMLtml> Map of the Pennsylvania, Reading, and Lehigh Valley Railroads, and their connections. (.6 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. [6], The LVRR immediately became the trunk line down the Lehigh Valley, with numerous feeder railroads connecting and contributing to its traffic. ft.), Columbia and Port Deposit Railway / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. 1902 - NYC introduces The 20th Century Limited. [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. 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. Coverage includes locations in the states of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York. (.4 cu. (3.5 cu. (2 cu. (.1 cu. (.1 cu. Customers naturally resented the actions of the cartel, and since coal was critical to commerce, Congress intervened in 1887 with the Interstate Commerce Act that forbade the roads from joining into such pools. The line is part of Norfolk Southern's Harrisburg Division and it is part of Norfolk Southern's Crescent Corridor, a railroad corridor. [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. ft.), Manor Real Estate and Trust Company / Journals, 1903-1925. (1 cu. The LVRR was approved for such a restructuring in 1940 when several large mortgage loans were due. ft.), Ridgeway and Clearfield Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. 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. The section between Allentown and Mauch Chunk opened on September 12. ft.), Berkshire Land Company / Cash Book, 1945-1953. Ousting President Elisha P. Wilbur and several directors in 1897, the Morgan company installed W. Alfred Walter as president and seated its own directors. In 1866, two years after the purchase of the Penn Haven and White Haven, the extension from White Haven to Wilkes-Barre opened.[1]. The company controlled 30,000 acres (120km2) of coal-producing lands and was expanding rapidly into New York and New Jersey. In 1856, the "E. A. Packer" 4-4-0 was purchased from William Mason of Taunton, Massachusetts. The South Basin terminal was used solely for freight, having docks and car float facilities. Please enable scripts and reload this page. ft.), Wilcox Railroad Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. (17.5 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. 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. By 1931, the PRR controlled 51% of the LVRR stock. 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. 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. (1.5 cu. In addition, we now hold a physical volume entitled Real Estate Atlas of the Western Pennsylvania Railroad, Butler Division, [ca. 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. :-) Disclaimers: 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.), Finley Company / Minute Books, 1945-1959. ft.), Germantown, Norristown, and Phoenixville Railroad / Minute Book, 1881-1886. The line is still owned and operated by the Norfolk Southern Railway and the line still runs from Port Reading Junction in Manville, New Jersey, to Penn Haven Junction in Lehigh Township, Carbon County, Pennsylvania.[52]. The purchase of the Penn Haven and White Haven was the first step in expanding to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. (1.3 cu. 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! 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. (3 cu. [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. [13] With these acquisitions, the LVRR obtained the right to mine coal as well as transport it. He served as chairman of the board while the presidency was vacant until PRR takeover. The line became known as the Lehigh Line during Conrail ownership. 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. ft.), PRR / VP of Special Services / Merger Studies, 1950-1970. (.10 cu. (2 cu. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Pennsylvania Railroad and Long Island RR Directors' Inspection Trip Book, 1947. 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. N Scale Lehigh Valley locomotive by Life-Like. (.1 cu. Ad vertisement from shop plaindealing. The coal railroads had begun in 1873 to form pools to regulate production and set quotas for each railroad. (1 cu. V2 en:Roselle and South Plainfield Railway. ft.), Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad / Contract Books, 1864-1891. (1.25 cu. [47][note 1]. ft.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / Record of Expenditures Under Authority of Forms 1416, ca 1917-1926. Paper or digital copies of the items on the list can then be ordered. The restructuring allowed the LVRR to extend the maturity of its mortgages, but it needed to repeat the process in 1950. You may be trying to access this site from a secured browser on the server. (11 cu. At the time, anthracite was transported by boat down the Lehigh River. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Board Files: Green Sheet Leases, 1926-1957. (13 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). (.1 cu. (2 cu. Post Conrail ownership and secondary lines. Free shipping for many products! (2 cu. The 46-mile-long (74km) LVRR connected at Mauch Chunk with the Beaver Meadow Railroad. (17 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. [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. 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.), PRR / Secretary / Guide for the PRR with Extensive Map Including the Entire Route, 1855. ft.), West Chester Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. James Madison Porter was the first President of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. (.25 cu. of Purchases / General Correspondence and Confidential Files of C.D. (.2 cu. In 1916, a horrendous explosion occurred at the facility, destroying ships and buildings, and breaking windows in Manhattan. The LVRR, which had built coal docks in Perth Amboy when it built the Easton and Amboy in the 1870s, desired a terminal on the Hudson River close to New York City. ft.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / Annual Statement of Charges and Credits to the Investment Account for Property (BV 589), 1917-1930. 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.), PRR / President / Presidential Correspondence of W.W. Atterbury, 1925-1935. (1 cu. 1906 Antique Lehigh Valley Railroad Map Vintage Lehigh Valley Railway Map Birthday Gift for Dad Anniversary 527 ad vertisement by plaindealing. 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. Keystone State. In 1882, the LVRR began an extensive expansion into New York from Waverly to Buffalo. ft.), Manor Real Estate and Trust Company / Stock Transfer Book, 1889-1931. w/ Val. (.21 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. Although the decade began with the completion of its terminals at Buffalo and Jersey City, and the establishment of a trunk line across New York, the company soon became entangled in costly business dealings which ultimately led to the Packer family's loss of control. In 1973, the United States Congress acted to create a bill to nationalize all bankrupt railroads which included the LV. 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. [39], Following the defeat of its plan, the D&H sold its stock to the Pennsylvania Railroad. In the following year, the LVRRa standard gauge railroadcompleted arrangements with the Erie Railroad, at that time having a six-foot gauge, for a third rail within the Erie mainline tracks to enable the LV equipment to run through to Elmira and later to Buffalo. {#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. [46] It managed to acquire more than 85% of all outstanding shares, and from that time the LVRR was little more than a division of the PRR. Passengers preferred the convenience of automobiles to trains, and airlines much later provided faster long-distance travel than trains. (.1 cu. Young, 1929-1943. (.1 cu. . In 1892, the Reading Railroad thought it had a solution instead of attempting to maintain agreements among the coal railroads, it would purchase or lease the major lines and bring them into a monopoly. The Lehigh Line still exists and still serves as a major freight railroad line that operates in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. 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.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / General Correspondence Files and Coal Mine Reports, 1930-1938. 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). File usage on Commons. [34] The LVRR obtained a 5-year agreement to use the CNJ line to access the terminal, which opened in 1889. ft.), PRR / President / Presidential Correspondence of M.W. 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. 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 / Letter Press Books of J.C. Wilson, Assistant Chief Engineer and Real Estate Agent, 1876-1889. ft.), Susquehanna, Bloomsburg, and Berwick Railroad / Minute Book, 1902-1918. Three months later the line branched out to the northwest past Allentown to Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, on September 12, 1855. 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. System Map (1940) An official, 1940 system map of the Lehigh & New England Railroad. The 16 mile mountain cut-of, a rail segment of the line that extended from Fairview, Pennsylvania, to the outskirts of Pittston, Pennsylvania, was completed in November 1888. of F. Thomson and A.J. Abandoned Lines By mileage, no state comes close to the abandonments suffered in Pennsylvania, which now amounts to roughly 6,500 miles.
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