ft.), Valley Real Estate Company - Ledger, 1907-1922. President of the Lehigh Valley System Through War, He Recently Retired", Lehigh Valley Railroad Historical Society, Luzerne County PAGenWeb (One Hundred Years of The Lehigh Valley), Lehigh Valley pages on Western NY Railroad Archive, Beyond Steel: An Archive of Lehigh Valley Industry and Culture, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lehigh_Valley_Railroad&oldid=1141748396. plaindealing From shop plaindealing. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Rules and Regulations, 1858-1925. The Easton and Amboy had already completed large docks and facilities for shipping coal at Perth Amboy upon an extensive tract of land fronting the Arthur Kill. The Penn Haven and White Haven Railroad allowed the LV to reach White Haven. ft.), Bustleton Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. ft.), Chambersburg Land and Improvement Company / Minute Book, 1890-1905. 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. (.2 cu. Maps of North America. (1 cu. ft.), Bedford and Hollidaysburg Railroad / Minute Book, 1902-1911. The line became known as the Lehigh Line during Conrail ownership. 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. :-) Disclaimers: In 1864, the LVRR began acquiring feeder railroads and merging them with its system. 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. It leased the CNJ and the LVRR, purchased the railroads' coal companies and arranged for the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad to cooperate with the combination, thereby controlling 70% of the trade. ft.), Suquehanna, Bloomsburg, and Berwick Railroad - Ledger, 1902-1904. Morgan. The line became known as the Lehigh Line during Conrail ownership. Winning bid: US $15.00. (.1 cu. Paper or digital copies of the items on the list can then be ordered. This page was last edited on 26 February 2023, at 16:09. Conrail maintained the line as a main line into the New York City area. Pennsylvania. Canal, 1901. ft.), which was maintained by the Secretary's office. [44] In 1957, the LVRR again stopped dividends. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Annual Reports and Data, 1920-1933. (.3 cu. Throughout that decade, expansions continued into New York by taking over smaller lines and building new railroad. In 1916, a horrendous explosion occurred at the facility, destroying ships and buildings, and breaking windows in Manhattan. In 1866, the LVRR purchased acquired the Lehigh and Mahanoy Railroad (originally the Quakake Railroad) and the North Branch Canal along the Susquehanna River, renaming it the Pennsylvania and New York Canal & Railroad Company (P&NY). 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. 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! ft.), PRR / Secretary / Secretary's Correspondence, 1860-1966 (1905-1966). [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. Please note: There also exists an unprocessed series of PRR/Penn Central maps entitled: Architectural Drawings and Maps, ca 1818-1970 (1883-1965). The Easton and Amboy was used as a connection to the New York metropolitan area, with a terminus in Jersey City, New Jersey. Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co. The hotel remained with the company until 1909, when it was bought by residents of the surrounding cottages. ft.), Enola Realty Company / Property Sales Accounts, 1905-1914. The 23 miles between Mauch Chunk and White Haven through the Lehigh Gorge, now the D&L Trail, was opened in 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. (.5 cu. 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. All structured data from the file namespace is available under the. This allowed the line's eastbound grade to be reduced and a shorter route for handling through traffic established. 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} . The LVRR began construction of a series of railroads to connect the Easton and Amboy line (Easton and Amboy Railroad) to Jersey City. 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. Map showing the Lehigh Valley Railroad system in the anthracite coal fields of Pennsylvania Names Von Rosenberg, Leo (Creator) Lehigh Valley Railroad Company (Publisher) Collection. ft.), Susquehanna Coal Company / Leases, 1883-1939. At Easton, the LVRR constructed a double-decked bridge across the Delaware River for connections to the CNJ and the Belvidere Delaware Railroad in Phillipsburg. (.1 cu. Lehigh Gorge Trains are located at 1 Susquehanna Street, Jim Thorpe, PA 18229 #570-325-8485 . In some cases (yards, stations, repair facilities, etc.) Please enable scripts and reload this page. ft.), Shamokin Valley and Pottsville Railroad / Acts of Assembly Relating to the Shamokin Valley and Pottsville Railroad, 1858. 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. [4] All this changed in October 1851, when Asa Packer took majority control of the DLS&S. ft.), PRR / VP of Operation / Chief of Motive Power / Lines East Age Books (MP 308), ca 1900-1917. 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. Finally in 1900, the LVRR purchased the National Docks Railway outright. Lehigh Valley Railroad System Map.svg. (3 cu. So, its motto, Route Of The Black Diamond, was quite befitting and led directly to both its rise in prosperity and downfall into bankruptcy. (.2 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. Cassatt and James McCrea, ca 1899-1913. ft.), Pittsburgh, Chartiers and Yougheogheny Railway / Annual Reports, 1892-1910. [18] For most of its length, it ran parallel to the LVRR. (10 cu. (.25 cu. File. In 1928, he attempted to seat a new president and board. (4 cu. (3 cu. By 1970, this had dwindled to 927 miles of road and 1963 miles of track. 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. 1905 - Hojack swing bridge built at Charlotte. (.1 cu. [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. (.1 cu. Finally, in 1889, the LVRR gained control of the Geneva, Ithaca, and Sayre Railroad and completed its line of rail through New York. ft.), PRR / President / Presidential Correspondence of M.W. ft.), PRR / President / Clement / Eastern Region Coordinating Committee Files, 1933-1936. ft.), Cherry Tree and Dixonville Railroad / Minute Books, 1903-1943. (2006) (2.25 cu. File usage on Commons. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Lease and Agreement Book, 1858-1889. (.25 cu. ft.), PRR / V.P. The LVRR had built coal docks in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, when it built the Easton and Amboy in the 1870s, but desired a terminal on the Hudson River close to New York City. (12 cu. (.5 cu. railroad archivist. Lehigh Valley Railroad System Maps RAILFAN GUIDES HOME RAILROAD SIGNALS HOME More info at: http://www.lehighvalleyrr.com/ http://www.marjum.com/niagjct/index.html http://www.railroad.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=128&t=1907 I wonder what it is with the name CHUNK that "they" wanted to use it twice? 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. [6] To accommodate the 4ft 10in (1,473mm) gauge of the Belvidere, the cars were furnished with wheels having wide treads that operated on both roads.[7]. It opened a hotel in Glen Summit, Pennsylvania, called the Glen Summit Hotel to serve lunch to passengers traveling on the line. ft.), Peoria and Eastern Railway / Annual Reports, 1928-1936, 1938-1961, 1963-1966, 1970-1973, 1976. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Imprint File, 1904-1968. ft.), PRR / VP of Operation / Chief of Motive Power / Letter Books, 1926. Passengers preferred the convenience of automobiles to trains, and airlines much later provided faster long-distance travel than trains. ft.), Philadelphia and Erie Railroad / Agreement Book, 1853-1894. ft.), Susquehanna and Clearfield Railroad / Annual Report to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. (.4 cu. Full Promotional Video: Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway 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. (35 cu. (.4 cu. (.05 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. At Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, the North Pennsylvania Railroad which was completed during the Summer of 1856, provided a rail connection to Philadelphia and thus brought the LVRR a direct line to Philadelphia. System Map (1940) An official, 1940 system map of the Lehigh & New England Railroad. [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 / VP of Special Services / Water Company Files, 1905-1956. The LVRR, wanting to capitalize on the tourist appeal of the cataract and to extend its anthracite coal business to the Midwestern United States, entered an agreement with the New York Central to use . Map of the Pennsylvania, Reading, and Lehigh Valley Railroads, and their connections. [24] The marshalling yard is now the residential area known as Harbortown. ft.), North Penn Coal Company / Minute Book, 1913-1938. (297 cu. 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. [14], The 1870s witnessed commencement of extension of the LVRR in a new direction. ft.), Katharine Water Company / Minute Book, 1904-1925. ft.), Wilcox Railroad Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. ft.), Ridgeway and Clearfield Railroad / Minute Book, 1882-1911. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Notes for Centennial History of PRR Company, ca 1946-1949. 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 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. [13] With these acquisitions, the LVRR obtained the right to mine coal as well as transport it. ft.), Ridgeway and Clearfield Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. (.1 cu. Leadership of the company transferred smoothly to Charles Hartshorne, who had been vice president under Packer. the succession of recorded deeds). ft.), Bell's Gap Railroad / Annual Reports, 1873-1889. That southern field held the largest reserves of anthracite in Pennsylvania and accounted for a large percentage of the total production. Another series relating to PRR real estate holdings, rights of way and agreements is the Valuable Papers File, [ca. ft.), VP of Real Estate / Letter Press Books of W.H. This is currently the last time the line has been downsized. From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. ft.), Johnsonburg Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. 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.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Letter Press Books of J.C. Wilson, Assistant Chief Engineer and Real Estate Agent, 1876-1889. Photograph by Donald W. Furler, Furler-12-021-01 . ft.) {#286m.254}. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Board Files: Green Sheet Leases, 1926-1957. The Vosburg Tunnel was completed and opened for service on July 25, 1886. (1.1 cu. (.02 cu. The original line retains its original route when it was first constructed and is served by Norfolk Southern Railway. ft.), Pioneer Real Estate Company / Minute Book, 1946-1947. (.2 cu. (.1 cu. 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. At Phillipsburg, New Jersey, the Belvidere Delaware Railroad connected to Trenton, New Jersey. 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. (.02 cu. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Annual Reports of Water Companies, 1914. It was opened on June 11, 1855, between Easton, Pennsylvania, and Allentown, Pennsylvania, passing through Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. 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 1870, the Lehigh Valley Railroad acquired trackage rights to Auburn, New York, on the Southern Central Railroad.[1]. ft.), Williamsport and Elmira Railroad / Annual Reports, 1856-1858. Bridging Newark Bay proved difficult. The company was a subsidiary of the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company (LC&N), but for much of its lifetime leased by the Central Railroad of New Jersey.It was founded in 1837 to carry coal from the North Branch Division of the Pennsylvania Canal to the . 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. Two final blows fell in the 1950s: the passage of the Federal-Aid Highway Act in 1956, better known as the Interstate Highway Act, and the opening of the Saint Lawrence Seaway in 1959. The line makes notable connections with other Norfolk Southern lines such as the Reading Line and independent shortline railroads. 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 building shutdown in 1961 and was demolished. Bankruptcy trustee July 1970August 1974. In 1856, the "E. A. Packer" 4-4-0 was purchased from William Mason of Taunton, Massachusetts. This route became important to Conrail as an alternate route to avoid Amtrak's former PRR/PC Northeast Corridor electrified route. ft.), PRR / President / Presidential Correspondence of Samuel Rea, 1913-1925. V2 en:Roselle and South Plainfield Railway. [1][19][bettersourceneeded][20]. In order to handle the additional new ocean traffic, the LVRR created a large new pier at Constable Hook, which opened in 1915, and a new terminal at Claremont which opened in 1923. (.02 cu. Photo by Doug Lilly. 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.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Contract Book of George B. Roberts, 1869-1884. (.2 cu. 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 first such combination occurred in 1873, followed by others in 1878, 1884, and 1886. [39], Following the defeat of its plan, the D&H sold its stock to the Pennsylvania Railroad. Other RBMN Train Rides . [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. Lehigh Valley Railroad Company records, 1870-1962. 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. On January 7, 1853, the railroad's name was changed to Lehigh Valley Railroad. 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. (.1 cu. (.4 cu. (.53 cu. ft.), Valley Real Estate Company / Minute Book, 1907-1922. Young, 1929-1943. VDOMDHTMLtml> Map of the Pennsylvania, Reading, and Lehigh Valley Railroads, and their connections. [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. (.3 cu. (.1 cu. (bridge still exists today. 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. :-)). 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. (.21 cu. [43] The terms of the restructurings precluded dividend payments until 1953, when LVRR common stock paid the first dividend since 1931. The LVRR strove throughout the 1880s to acquire its own route to Jersey City and to the Jersey City waterfront.