This allowed the line's eastbound grade to be reduced and a shorter route for handling through traffic established. (.15 cu. (.1 cu. ft.), Philadelphia and Erie Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. 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. (.03 cu. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Library / Library Reference Materials, ca 1834-1963. Size of this PNG preview of this SVG file: Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents. [43] The terms of the restructurings precluded dividend payments until 1953, when LVRR common stock paid the first dividend since 1931. 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. 985, Last edited on 26 February 2023, at 16:09, Catawissa, Williamsport and Erie Railroad, Pennsylvania and New York Canal & Railroad Company, Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway, New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway, Reading Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad, Lehigh Township, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, "Lehigh Valley Railroad to Retires $2,489,000 in 66-Year-Old Bonds", "Pennsylvania Railroad Seeking all the Stock of Lehigh Valley", http://www.parailfan.com/NS/ns_lehigh_line_ett.pdf, "Last of the Railroad - Era Passes Tonight as Lehigh Ends Service", "E. E. Loomis is Dead. ft.), PRR / VP of Operation / Chief of Motive Power / Lines East Age Books (MP 308), ca 1900-1917. (.02 cu. 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. ft.), PRR / VP of Finance / Treasurer / Treasurer's Cash Books, 1847-1863, 1865-1925. 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. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Post Office Files, 1923-1933. 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. ft.), Enola Realty Company / Journals, 1905-1932. (1 cu. Winning bid: US $15.00. ft.), Pennsylvania and North Western Railroad / Annual Reports, 1890-1901. 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. These operators include: The Lehigh Line was the Lehigh Valley Railroad's first rail line and served as the main line. ft.), PRR / VP of Operation / Chief of Motive Power / Miscellaneous Motive Power Blueprints and Related Materials, ca 1900-1968. Congress reacted with the 1906 Hepburn Act, which among other things forbade railroads from owning the commodities that they transported. 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 . Ball, Chief Conveyancer and Benjamin W. Carskaddon, Assistant Real Estate Agent, 1876-1902. of F. Thomson and A.J. [2] It was sometimes known as the Route of the Black Diamond, named after the anthracite it transported. ft.), Enola Realty Company / Property Sales Accounts, 1905-1914. The LVRR's Newark and Roselle Railway in 1891 brought the line from Roselle into Newark, where passengers connected to the Pennsylvania Railroad. (3.5 cu. [13][35] Unfortunately, it overreached and in 1893 was unable to meet its obligations. ft.), Nescopec Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. (.1 cu. 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. The owners still owned the property, but the railroad was allowed to conduct agreed-upon activities on the swath in question. 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}. At Phillipsburg, New Jersey, the Belvidere Delaware Railroad connected to Trenton, New Jersey. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Letter Press Books of George W.I. of Law / Miscellaneous Interstate Commerce Commission Case Files, 1927-1935. The Maple Leaf and the John Wilkes were the last operating long-distance trains, terminated that day. In many cases the Rights of Way were not perpetual, but were granted for, say, 99 years. [8] The purchasing of the North Branch Canal saw an opportunity for a near monopoly in the region north of the Wyoming Valley. The line gave the LVRR a route into Pottsville, Pennsylvania, and the Schuylkill Valley coal fields.[32]. (.02 cu. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Minute Books of the Real Estate Committee, 1869-1918. The purchase of the Penn Haven and White Haven was the first step in expanding to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Other resolutions: 320 240 pixels | 640 480 pixels | 1,024 768 pixels | 1,280 960 pixels | 2,560 1,920 pixels. ft.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / List of Roadway Completion Reports (BV 586), 1919-1927. (.1 cu. ft.), Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad / Agreements, Leases and Mortgage, 1847-1886. Oil and gas were supplanting coal as the fuel of choice. This page was last edited on 15 September 2020, at 21:11. ft.), Erie-Lackawanna Railway / General Correspondence Files, 1953-1967, Erie Railroad / Land Record Books,[ ca 1831-1915]. 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. 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. These tracks were laid and the Easton and Amboy Railroad was opened for business on June 28, 1875, with hauling coal. (5 cu. The Lehigh Valley Railroad was another of the many Northeastern carriers built to move anthracite coal from eastern Pennsylvania. (.1 cu. 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. [31], In Pennsylvania, the Lehigh scored a coup by obtaining the charter formerly held by the Schuykill Haven and Lehigh River Railroad in 1886. ft.), Ridgeway and Clearfield Railroad / Minute Book, 1882-1911. 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 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. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / General Correspondence Files of the St. Lawrence Power Project, 1948-1954. (6.05 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. Lehigh Gorge Trains are located at 1 Susquehanna Street, Jim Thorpe, PA 18229 #570-325-8485 . 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. It passes through the approximately 5,000-foot Pattenburg Tunnel in West Portal, New Jersey, along its route. ft.), Northern Central Railway / Committee Minute Book, 1875-1914. 1948: ALCO PA passenger diesels replace steam on all passenger runs. (2.25 cu. Several combinations occurred, but each fell apart as one road or another abrogated its agreement. railroad archivist. 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. (.6 cu. By 1970, this had dwindled to 927 miles of road and 1963 miles of track. Small party privacy and fantastic views! In 1871, the LVRR leased the Morris Canal, which had a valuable outlet in Jersey City on the Hudson River opposite Manhattan. ft.), PRR / V.P. (.25 cu. (.16 cu. (5 cu. (.4 cu. ft.), Northern Central Railroad / Committee Minute Book, 1875-1914. (.1 cu. In 1875, the holdings were consolidated into the Lehigh Valley Coal Company, which was wholly owned by the LVRR. Canal, 1901. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Printed Abstracts of Title, 1869, 1875. ft.), Susquehanna, Bloomsburg, and Berwick Railroad / Minute Book, 1902-1918. ft.), Pittsburgh and Lake Erie / Railroad Annual Reports, 1967, 1969, 1972-1974, 1976-1977. ft.), Bustleton Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. 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 . (.1 cu. That southern field held the largest reserves of anthracite in Pennsylvania and accounted for a large percentage of the total production. (.1 cu. ft.), Manor Real Estate and Trust Company / Property Ledger, 1886-1916. 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. Although the roads effectively ignored the Act and their sales agents continued to meet and set prices, the agreements were never effective for long. 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. Prior to that time, the Temple Iron Company was a small concern that happened to have a broad charter allowing it to act as a holding company. Map of the Pennsylvania, Reading, and Lehigh Valley Railroads, and their connections. [15] Asa Packer purchased additional land at the canal basin in support of the New Jersey West Line Railroad, which he hoped to use as the LVRR's terminal. ft.), Johnsonburg Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. 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.), Valley Real Estate Company / Journal Entries, 1919. the succession of recorded deeds). (.1 cu. (.02 cu. Passengers were routed to the Pennsylvania Railroad's terminal and ferry. ft.), Leechburg Company / Minute Books, 1937-1954. Following Federal legislation which stopped the operation of such service, the lake line was sold to private interests in 1920. 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. This page was last edited on 26 February 2023, at 16:09. Although in 1870 the LVRR had invested in the 2-mile (3.2km) Buffalo Creek Railroad, which connected the Erie to the lakefront, and had constructed the Lehigh Docks on Buffalo Creek, it depended on the Erie Railroad for the connection from Waverly to Buffalo, New York.[9]. (.02 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. ft.), PRR / Comptroller / General Correspondence Files, 1924-1964. By 1859 it had 600 coal cars and 19 engines. Due to declining passenger patronage, the Lehigh Valley successfully petitioned the Interstate Commerce Commission to terminate all passenger service. 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. Some lines were subsequently abandoned and even dismantled long before the expiration date came up. The first leg of the construction to Jersey City was the Roselle and South Plainfield Railway in 1888 which connected with the CNJ at Roselle for access over the CNJ to the Hudson River waterfront in Jersey City. This route became important to Conrail as an alternate route to avoid Amtrak's former PRR/PC Northeast Corridor electrified route. 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. All structured data from the file namespace is available under the. For 25 years the Lehigh Canal had enjoyed a monopoly on downstream transportation and was charging independent producers high fees. 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). Although government-funded Amtrak took over intercity passenger service on May 1, 1971, railroad companies continued to lose money due to extensive government regulations, expensive and excessive labor cost, competition from other transportation modes, declining industrial business and other factors;[49] the Lehigh Valley Railroad was one of them. (.4 cu. Lehigh Valley Railroad Company records, 1870-1962. In 1866, Master Mechanic Alexander Mitchell designed the "Consolidation", 1945: The first Lehigh Valley Railroad mainline diesels arrive in the form of. Abandoned Lines By mileage, no state comes close to the abandonments suffered in Pennsylvania, which now amounts to roughly 6,500 miles. By December 31, 1925, the railroad controlled 1,363.7 miles of road and 3,533.3 miles of track. President Richard Nixon signed the Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973 into law. Keystone State. {#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. 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. (.01 cu. 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. 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. w/ Val. That project failed, but the lands were later used for the LVRR's own terminal in 1889. (.5 cu. Originally incorporated as the Delaware, Lehigh, Schuylkill and Susquehanna Railroad Company. On January 7, 1853, the railroad's name was changed to Lehigh Valley Railroad. Lehigh Valley Railroad Station was a beautiful building that dated back to 1890. (1 cu. (.4 cu. (bridge still exists today. Now under ownership of the Norfolk Southern Railway, the Lehigh Line's route is now from Port Reading Junction in Manville, New Jersey, to Penn Haven Junction in Lehigh Township, Pennsylvania. ft.), Baltimore and Potomac / Blueprint Book of Proposed Revision of Line and Grades in Washington, D.C., undated. [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. (2 cu. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Lease and Agreement Book, 1858-1889. 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. File. (.1 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]. Lehigh Valley Pennsylvania Railroad Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh This 5-railroad network will remain essentially unchanged for the first half of the 20th Century. . ft.), Penn Central Corp. / General Correspondence Files, 1955-1976. (.2 cu. File usage on Commons. To reach Wilkes-Barre, the LVRR began constructing an extension from White Haven, Pennsylvania, to Wilkes-Barre. The "T" intersection is also visible on the map where the trains would turn into the depot at the village of Hemlock. (1 cu. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Annual Reports of Water Companies, 1914. 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. 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. how long the Rights-of-Way were for, when the track was laid, and when the time limit was or will be up. (.1 cu. (.5 cu. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Minute Books of the Road Committee, 1847-1948. Annual Report of the State Board of Assessors of the State of New Jersey, News Printing Co., 1889, p.85. The LVRR strove throughout the 1880s to acquire its own route to Jersey City and to the Jersey City waterfront. [1] (4 cu. [39], Following the defeat of its plan, the D&H sold its stock to the Pennsylvania Railroad. ft.), PRR / VP of Special Services / Penn Central Merger Files, 1963-1965. ft.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / Valuable Papers Files, 1850-1966. A final attempt to establish a coal cartel took place in 1904 with the formation of the Temple Iron Company. The coal railroads had begun in 1873 to form pools to regulate production and set quotas for each railroad. The purpose of the Temple Iron Company was to lock-up independent coal production and control the supply. At first the incident was considered an accident; a long investigation eventually concluded that the explosion was an act of German sabotage, for which reparations were finally paid in 1979. ft.), PRR / Secretary / General Correspondence Files, ca 1887-1972. Lehigh Valley Railroad System Map.svg. (43 cu. 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 cu. No comprehensive finding aid exists for these records. Then the CNJ opposed the LVRR's attempt to cross its line at Caven Point. The South Basin terminal was used solely for freight, having docks and car float facilities. ft.), PRR / VP Central Region / Blueprint Track Chart of Branch Lines, 1938. (.5 cu. ft.), Harrisburg, Portsmouth, Mt. [42], Following the Great Depression, the railroad had a few periods of prosperity, but was clearly in a slow decline. ft.), Buffalo Creek Railroad / Valuable Papers Files, 1868-1967. (.03 cu. (.3 cu. of Purchases / General Correspondence and Confidential Files of C.D. In the years leading to 1973, the freight railroad system in the northeast of the U.S. was collapsing. [26] The railroad had survived the economic depression of 1873 and was seeing its business recover. ft.), PRR / V.P. (3 cu. (5 cu. LVRR Map 1 2016-08-10T14:17:31 . The first locomotive purchased by the LVRR was the "Delaware", a wood-burning 4-4-0 built by Richard Norris & Sons of Philadelphia in 1855. (2.25 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. Another series relating to PRR real estate holdings, rights of way and agreements is the Valuable Papers File, [ca. ft.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / Property Schedules, (BV 634, 635 and 636), 1936-1941. (11.9 cu. 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} . ft.), PRR / Secretary / Pamphlet Description of Corporations in which PRR and Subs. The railroad was authorized on April 21, 1846, for freight and transportation of passengers, goods, wares, merchandise and minerals[1] in Pennsylvania and the railroad was incorporated and established on September 20, 1847, as the Delaware, Lehigh, Schuylkill and Susquehanna Railroad Company. plaindealing From shop plaindealing. ft.), Susquehanna Coal Company / Minute Books, 1869-1940. Indicates major drainage, cities and towns, and names the railroads along the lines. ft.), PRR / VP of Law / Riot Docket and Ejectment Suits, 1877-1895. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Board of Directors' Inspection Trip Book, 1937. The company controlled 30,000 acres (120km2) of coal-producing lands and was expanding rapidly into New York and New Jersey. (1 cu. (143 cu. (3 cu. (.4 cu. ft.), Bell's Gap Railroad / Annual Reports, 1873-1889. [38] Through bonds issued by the D&H, he obtained 30% of the LVRR stock, and won the support of nearly half the stockholders. ft.), Shamokin Valley and Pottsville Railroad / Acts of Assembly Relating to the Shamokin Valley and Pottsville Railroad, 1858. The images on the film are arranged geographically, i.e. [1], The length of the line from Mauch Chunk to Easton was 46 miles of single track. ft.), Frederick and Northern Railroad / Minute Book, 1873-1897. In 1883, Hartshorne retired to allow Harry E. Packer, Asa's 32-year-old youngest son, to assume the Presidency. At Perth Amboy, a tidewater terminal was built on the Arthur Kill comprising a large coal dock used to transport coal into New York City. [6], The LVRR immediately became the trunk line down the Lehigh Valley, with numerous feeder railroads connecting and contributing to its traffic. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Imprint File, 1904-1968. 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. ft.), PRR / President / Presidential Correspondence of A.J. 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. ft.), Manor Real Estate and Trust Company / Ledgers, 1903-1925. Digitized content from the collections of Cornell University Library 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.
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