(.1 cu. At the time, anthracite was transported by boat down the Lehigh River. 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 . That southern field held the largest reserves of anthracite in Pennsylvania and accounted for a large percentage of the total production. System Map (1940) An official, 1940 system map of the Lehigh & New England Railroad. (.1 cu. ft.), PRR / VP of Special Services / Water Company Files, 1905-1956. 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). 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. Coverage includes locations in the states of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York. This was the second step toward establishment of a direct route from Waverly to Buffalo, the first being the acquisition of the Geneva, Ithaca & Athens Railroad. [34] The LVRR obtained a 5-year agreement to use the CNJ line to access the terminal, which opened in 1889. ft.), PRR / President / Subject Index to Presidential Corr. ft.), Manor Real Estate and Trust Company / Property Ledger, 1886-1916. [31], In Pennsylvania, the Lehigh scored a coup by obtaining the charter formerly held by the Schuykill Haven and Lehigh River Railroad in 1886. Please note: There also exists an unprocessed series of PRR/Penn Central maps entitled: Architectural Drawings and Maps, ca 1818-1970 (1883-1965). 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. Engineering Drawings, [ca.1886-1940 (bulk: 1915-1930)]{#311m.284} will be of interest. [8] The purchasing of the North Branch Canal saw an opportunity for a near monopoly in the region north of the Wyoming Valley. ft.), Valley Real Estate Company / Cash Book, 1907-1922. [1], On May 17, 1879, Asa Packer, the company's founder and leader, died at the age of 73. Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co. ft.), PRR / Comptroller / General Correspondence Files, 1924-1964. 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. 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.), Northern Central Railroad / Committee Minute Book, 1875-1914. ft.), Erie Railroad / Tax Registers, 1891-1915. The line is part of Norfolk Southern's Harrisburg Division and it is part of Norfolk Southern's Crescent Corridor, a railroad corridor. Passenger traffic on the LVRR's Easton and Amboy connected with the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) at Metuchen, New Jersey, and continued to the PRR'S Exchange Place terminus in Jersey City (that connection was discontinued in 1891 after the LVRR established its own route to Jersey City from South Plainfield). The coal trade was always the backbone of the business but was subject to boom and bust as competition and production increased and the economy cycled. (.1 cu. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Board of Directors' Inspection Trip Book, 1937. (.1 cu. 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"). The hotel remained with the company until 1909, when it was bought by residents of the surrounding cottages. (1.5 cu. Indicates major drainage, cities and towns, and names the railroads along the lines. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / General Correspondence Files of the St. Lawrence Power Project, 1948-1954. [17] In 1871, the entire line from Phillipsburg to Wilkes-Barre was leased to the CNJ. The Penn Haven and White Haven Railroad allowed the LV to reach White Haven. (.53 cu. (2006) (.1 cu. The 23 miles between Mauch Chunk and White Haven through the Lehigh Gorge, now the D&L Trail, was opened in 1864. By the 1960s, railroads in the East were struggling to survive. 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. ft.), Philadelphia and Erie Railroad / Minute Book of the Road Committee, Finance Comm. ft.), Erie Railroad / Miscellaneous Land Records, [ca. An sample frame of this film appears to the right of this paragraph, though not all frames show the names of property owners. 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! (1 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: Ad vertisement from shop plaindealing. ft.), PRR / Secretary / General Correspondence Files, ca 1887-1972. At Phillipsburg, New Jersey, the Belvidere Delaware Railroad connected to Trenton, New Jersey. 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. This imbalance in payments would prove fatal to the financially-frail Lehigh Valley, and it declared bankruptcy just over one month after the Penn Central, on July 24, 1970. Photograph by Donald W. Furler, Furler-12-021-01 . ft.), Ridgeway and Clearfield Railroad / Minute Book, 1882-1911. (2.25 cu. (.02 cu. The Anthracite Railroads Historical Society maintains this website in the memory of Ed Schaller, a kind man with a wonderful personality, who served many years as treasurer on the Board of Directors. For land and trackage owned by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, the State Archives holds a series of 49 microfilm rolls, filmed in 1976 by the Penn Central, entitled: Real Estate Maps and Atlases (#RRV 1101 through 1148) {#286m.423} . Order #20 of ICC, 1916-1921. 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. Lehigh Valley Railroad. Newly elected president Eben B. Thomas, formerly of the Erie, and his board of directors represented the combined interests of those railroads.[36]. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Lease and Agreement Book, 1858-1889. [14], The 1870s witnessed commencement of extension of the LVRR in a new direction. Railroad Leader. 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. The railroad would run parallel to the Lehigh River and break the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company's monopoly on coal traffic originating in the Wyoming Valley. 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. In the following years, the Pennsylvania quietly obtained more stock, both directly and through railroads it controlled, primarily the Wabash. Original file (SVG file, nominally 800 600 pixels, file size: 447 KB). Wilson, Chief Engineer, 1881-1884. (.3 cu. (5 cu. 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. To reach Wilkes-Barre, the LVRR began constructing an extension from White Haven, Pennsylvania, to Wilkes-Barre. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Pennsylvania Railroad and Long Island RR Directors' Inspection Trip Book, 1947. Construction began in earnest in 1853, and the line opened between Easton and Allentown on June 11, 1855. Working in conjunction with the Allentown & Auburn Railroad and the Lehigh Valley Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society the three groups plan to restore the switcher back to operating condition wearing its original L&NE colors and number. The lists were constructed by doing word searches of the narrative series descriptions for the designated words: maps, tracks and real estate. (.25 cu. Ousting President Elisha P. Wilbur and several directors in 1897, the Morgan company installed W. Alfred Walter as president and seated its own directors. 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. ft.), Williamsport and Elmira Railroad / Annual Reports, 1856-1858. w/ Val. (29 cu. Winning bid: US $15.00. He was also an enthusiastic member of the Society's modeling committee . (.1 cu. Clement, 1935-1949. 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. Names Alter, R. H. Pennsylvania Railroad. Cassat, 1893-1903. ft.), PRR / VP of Operation / Chief of Motive Power / Condition of Frt. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Board Files: Green Sheet Leases, 1926-1957. The first acquisitions were the Beaver Meadow Railroad and Coal Company, which included a few hundred acres of coal land, and the Penn Haven and White Haven Railroad. . (11.9 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. These operators include: The Lehigh Line was the Lehigh Valley Railroad's first rail line and served as the main line. (1.25 cu. [26] The railroad had survived the economic depression of 1873 and was seeing its business recover. Small party privacy and fantastic views! 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. File usage on other wikis. 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. 1902 - NYC introduces The 20th Century Limited. (.1 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 building shutdown in 1961 and was demolished. 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. Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Collection Number: 3362 Abstract: Financial records, reports, schedules, blueprints, and other records of railway lines in central and western New York State. ft.), PRR / VP of Special Services / Merger Studies, 1950-1970. (1 cu. ft.), Harrisburg, Portsmouth, Mt. The L&S had been chartered in 1837 by the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company (the Lehigh Canal company) to connect the upper end of the canal at Mauch Chunk to Wilkes-Barre. ft.), Erie-Lackawanna Railway / General Correspondence Files, 1953-1967, Erie Railroad / Land Record Books,[ ca 1831-1915]. 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. Budd Rail Diesel Car service would continue on a branch line (Lehighton-Hazleton) for an additional four days. (.21 cu. :-) Disclaimers: (.1 cu. [13][35] Unfortunately, it overreached and in 1893 was unable to meet its obligations. | Library of Congress Outline map of the middle Atlantic states showing the three major lines in different colors. In some cases (yards, stations, repair facilities, etc.) The railroad ended operations in 1976 and merged into Conrail along with several northeastern railroads that same year. and Executive Comm., 1853-1906. (2 cu. ft.), Susquehanna and Clearfield Railroad / Annual Report to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. The Auburn Branch Sayre, PA to North Fair Haven NY, PA | CR, LV, NY&OM Batavia to Leroy, NY NY | LV Buffalo to Victor, NY NY | LV The Cayuga Lake Railroad Auburn to Lake Ridge, NY NY | CLRR, CR, LV The Cortland Branch East Ithaca to Camden, NY NY | LV Ithaca to . (.03 cu. The LVRR decided to expand more to the Northeastern New Jersey in order to reach its freight yards without using the CNJ main line. Young, 1929-1943. (.1 cu. This company became an important factor in the movement of anthracite, grain and package freight between Buffalo, Chicago, Milwaukee, Duluth, Superior and other midwestern cities. 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. 1850-1967] (157 cu. (.2 cu. 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 banking giant J. P. Morgan stepped in to refinance the LVRR debt and obtained control of the railroad in the process. (.1 cu. (2 cu. Morgan. 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. File usage on Commons. how long the Rights-of-Way were for, when the track was laid, and when the time limit was or will be up. (12 cu. ft.), Buffalo Creek Railroad / Valuable Papers Files, 1868-1967. The owners still owned the property, but the railroad was allowed to conduct agreed-upon activities on the swath in question. ft.), Baltimore and Potomac / Blueprint Book of Proposed Revision of Line and Grades in Washington, D.C., undated. Dates / Origin Date Issued: 1887 Place: Philadelphia? The train arrives from far away and passes the camera, while workers are waving their handkerchiefs.[37]. (.0 cu. ft.), Nescopec Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. (3 cu. (152 cu. The Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad is a defunct railroad that operated in eastern Pennsylvania during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. ft.), Manor Real Estate and Trust Company / Stock Transfer Book, 1889-1931. Another series relating to PRR real estate holdings, rights of way and agreements is the Valuable Papers File, [ca. (.1 cu. (.4 cu. (.05 cu. ft.), West Lane Garage Company / Minute Book, 1934-1943. (2 cu. ft.), Philadelphia and Erie Railroad / Report to the Superintendant of the Tenth Census, 1880. Top of page Skip to main content (.2 cu. 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. (.15 cu. ft.), Philadelphia and Erie Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. (.5 cu. Conrail maintained the line as a main line into the New York City area. United States (except New York) States. In 1896 the very early film Black Diamond Express was produced by Thomas A. Edison's company Kinetoscope. 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. All structured data from the file namespace is available under the. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Information Books, ca 1926-1954. The Depression had been difficult for all the railroads, and Congress recognized that bankruptcy laws needed revision. Eventually, the Easton and Amboy Railroad was absorbed into the parent Lehigh Valley Railroad. (.2 cu. Ball, Chief Conveyancer and Benjamin W. Carskaddon, Assistant Real Estate Agent, 1876-1902. (.01 cu. (.55 cu. ft.), Manor Real Estate and Trust Company / Minute Books, 1870-1954. Size of this PNG preview of this SVG file: 800 600 pixels. Digitized content from the collections of Cornell University Library ft.), Manor Real Estate and Trust Company / Indexes to Minutes, 1870-1954. On January 7, 1853, the railroad's name was changed to Lehigh Valley Railroad. ft.), VP of Real Estate / Letter Press Books of W.H. 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. {#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. Finally in 1887 the two railroads reached a settlement, and construction of the LVRR's Jersey City freight yard began. [43] The terms of the restructurings precluded dividend payments until 1953, when LVRR common stock paid the first dividend since 1931. Then the CNJ opposed the LVRR's attempt to cross its line at Caven Point. (.1 cu. (.10 cu. ft.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / Valuable Papers Files, 1850-1966. By 1931, the PRR controlled 51% of the LVRR stock. At Phillipsburg, New Jersey, the line interchanges with its New Jersey side branch line, the Washington Secondary and the Belvidere and Delaware River Railway which also passes over the Belvidere and Delaware River after that. The tracks from Dupont to Mehoopany became a new rail line called the Susquehanna Branch. linearly along particular rail lines. For 25 years the Lehigh Canal had enjoyed a monopoly on downstream transportation and was charging independent producers high fees. Condition: Used. permission to lay track, run trains and do needed maintenance along a long, narrow swath. ft.), which was maintained by the Secretary's office. Lehigh Gorge Trains are located at 1 Susquehanna Street, Jim Thorpe, PA 18229 #570-325-8485 . The line became known as the Lehigh Line during Conrail ownership. 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.
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