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 . Names Alter, R. H. Pennsylvania Railroad. (.1 cu. 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. (1.1 cu. LVRR Map 1 2016-08-10T14:17:31 . (.25 cu. 5 out of 5 stars (5,213) $ 19.50 FREE shipping Add to Favorites . Finally, in 1889, the LVRR gained control of the Geneva, Ithaca, and Sayre Railroad and completed its line of rail through New York. [31], In Pennsylvania, the Lehigh scored a coup by obtaining the charter formerly held by the Schuykill Haven and Lehigh River Railroad in 1886. From the beginning, the LVRR's New York City passengers had used the Pennsylvania Railroad's terminal and ferry at Jersey City, but in 1913 the PRR terminated that agreement, so the LVRR contracted with the CNJ for use of its terminal and ferry, which was expanded to handle the increased number of passengers. 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. On April 1, 1976, major portions of the assets of the bankrupt Lehigh Valley Railroad were acquired by Conrail. ft.), Franklin Railroad Company / Minute Books, 1836-1853, 1859-1865. 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). Eventually, the Easton and Amboy Railroad was absorbed into the parent Lehigh Valley Railroad. (5 cu. ft.), PRR / VP of Special Services / Water Company Files, 1905-1956. (92 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. ft.), Valley Real Estate Company / Minute Book, 1907-1922. 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. The train arrives from far away and passes the camera, while workers are waving their handkerchiefs.[37]. | Library of Congress Outline map of the middle Atlantic states showing the three major lines in different colors. {#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. (.01 cu. (2 cu. It also continued to grow and develop its routes in Pennsylvania. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Notes for Centennial History of PRR Company, ca 1946-1949. 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. 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. The Lehigh Valley Terminal Railway was a Lehigh Valley Railroad company organized in 1891 through the consolidation of the companies that formed the Lehigh Valley's route from South Plainfield through Newark to Jersey City via its bridge across Newark Bay.Until 1895, when the Greenville and Hudson Railway was constructed, the Lehigh Valley depended on the National Docks Railway to reach the . (.15 cu. In many cases the Rights of Way were not perpetual, but were granted for, say, 99 years. ft.), Manor Real Estate and Trust Company / Stock Transfer Book, 1889-1931. 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. ft.), Philadelphia and Erie Railroad / Minute Book of the Road Committee, Finance Comm. of F. Thomson and A.J. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Histories of Various Companies, ca 1934-1965. 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. ft.), PRR / VP of Special Services / Merger Studies, 1950-1970. The purpose of the Temple Iron Company was to lock-up independent coal production and control the supply. Leadership of the company transferred smoothly to Charles Hartshorne, who had been vice president under Packer. (.02 cu. 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. (.1 cu. 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. (.2 cu. (297 cu. In 1882, the LVRR began an extensive expansion into New York from Waverly to Buffalo. (.4 cu. The most important market in the east was New York City, but the LVRR was dependent on the CNJ and the Morris Canal for transport to the New York tidewater. Size of this PNG preview of this SVG file: 800 600 pixels. 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. (2006) 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.), PRR / Secretary / Imprint File, 1904-1968. 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. ft.), Germantown, Norristown, and Phoenixville Railroad / Minute Book, 1881-1886. (.1 cu. ft.), Manor Real Estate and Trust Company / Ledgers, 1903-1925. 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. These tracks were laid and the Easton and Amboy Railroad was opened for business on June 28, 1875, with hauling coal. (.02 cu. The Chandler Acts of 1938-9 provided a new form of relief for railroads, allowing them to restructure their debt while continuing to operate. The Easton and Amboy's operations were labeled the "New Jersey Division" of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. (1.25 cu. 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. (.4 cu. (.4 cu. Lehigh Gorge Trains are located at 1 Susquehanna Street, Jim Thorpe, PA 18229 #570-325-8485 . (.5 cu. 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. (.21 cu. By the 1960s, railroads in the East were struggling to survive. ft.), Ridgeway and Clearfield Railroad / Minute Book, 1882-1911. 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. ft.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / Statements of Additions and Betterments (GA-8), 1918-1929, 1931-1932. ft.), Manor Real Estate and Trust Company / Indexes to Minutes, 1870-1954. (.3 cu. (43 cu. Through neglect, the Reading allowed the charter to lapse, and it was acquired by the Lehigh Valley, which immediately constructed the Schuylkill and Lehigh Valley Railroad. 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. The new line is also served by Norfolk Southern Railway, but it is served together with CSX Transportation in a joint ownership company called Conrail Shared Assets Operations. By 1931, the PRR controlled 51% of the LVRR stock. 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. 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. (.4 cu. (.1 cu. (.05 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). ft.), Northern Central Railroad / Mortgage of the Northern Central Railway to Wistar Morris and Josiah Bacon, Trustees, 1868. The railroad ended operations in 1976 and merged into Conrail along with several northeastern railroads that same year. (.1 cu. 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. 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. 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. ft.), Philadelphia and Erie Railroad / Agreement Book, 1853-1894. ft.), Enola Realty Company / Property Sales Accounts, 1905-1914. No comprehensive finding aid exists for these records. The United States Railroad Administration controlled the railroad from 1918 to 1920, at which time control was transferred back to the private companies. ft.), Ridgeway and Clearfield Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. 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. 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 46-mile-long (74km) LVRR connected at Mauch Chunk with the Beaver Meadow Railroad. F. A . ft.), Finley Company / Minute Books, 1945-1959. Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973, Pub.L. Lehigh Valley Railroad Station was a beautiful building that dated back to 1890. Oil and gas were supplanting coal as the fuel of choice. 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 . The "T" intersection is also visible on the map where the trains would turn into the depot at the village of Hemlock. This page was last edited on 15 September 2020, at 21:11. 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}. (3 cu. 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 In 1875, the LVRR financed the addition of a third rail to the Erie Railroad main line so that cars could roll directly from colliery to the port at Buffalo. of Law / Miscellaneous Interstate Commerce Commission Case Files, 1927-1935. [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. By 1970, this had dwindled to 927 miles of road and 1963 miles of track. From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. ft.), Katharine Water Company / Minute Book, 1904-1925. - Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway . 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. (12 cu. The line is part of Norfolk Southern's Harrisburg Division and it is part of Norfolk Southern's Crescent Corridor, a railroad corridor. 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 Eastern Region / Letter Books, 1924-1926. (1.5 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. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Annual Reports of Water Companies, 1914. Engineering Drawings, [ca.1886-1940 (bulk: 1915-1930)]{#311m.284} will be of interest. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Letter Press Books of J.C. Wilson, Assistant Chief Engineer and Real Estate Agent, 1876-1889. [16] After the LVRR opened its line, the Lehigh & Susquehanna extended to Phillipsburg, New Jersey, and connected with the CNJ and the Morris and Essex Railroad in 1868. This series primarily represents agreements that the PRR entered into with individuals, companies, and local governments. ft.), Valley Real Estate Company / Journal Entries, 1919. The lists were constructed by doing word searches of the narrative series descriptions for the designated words: maps, tracks and real estate. The acquisitions in 1868 were notable because they marked the beginning of the LVRR's strategy of acquiring coal lands to ensure production and traffic for its own lines. 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. Please note: There also exists an unprocessed series of PRR/Penn Central maps entitled: Architectural Drawings and Maps, ca 1818-1970 (1883-1965). (.3 cu. Conrail abandoned most of the route in New York State to Buffalo after 1976, considerably shortening the line. 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. In 1871, the LVRR leased the Morris Canal, which had a valuable outlet in Jersey City on the Hudson River opposite Manhattan. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Letter Press Books of George W.I. Passengers were routed to the Pennsylvania Railroad's terminal and ferry. ft.), Erie Railroad / Miscellaneous Land Records, [ca. The company controlled 30,000 acres (120km2) of coal-producing lands and was expanding rapidly into New York and New Jersey. By controlling supply, the coal combination attempted to keep prices and profits high. ft.), Susquehanna Coal Company / Minute Books, 1869-1940. (6.05 cu. 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. ft.), Kensington and Tacony Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. 6 Replies 6377 Views by lvrr325 Fri Aug 28, 2015 3:20 pm: (1 cu. To reach Wilkes-Barre, the LVRR began constructing an extension from White Haven, Pennsylvania, to Wilkes-Barre. Although the roads effectively ignored the Act and their sales agents continued to meet and set prices, the agreements were never effective for long. ft.), Coxe Brothers and Company, Inc. / Appendix to Estimates of Coal on Properties Owned or Controlled, 1925. 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. Other resolutions: 320 240 pixels | 640 480 pixels | 1,024 768 pixels | 1,280 960 pixels | 2,560 1,920 pixels. (25 cu. (.1 cu. (5.6 cu. The railroad was chartered on August 2, 1847, and elected James Madison Porter its president on October 21. (.5 cu. ft.), PRR / VP of Operation / Chief of Motive Power / Lines East Age Books (MP 308), ca 1900-1917. ft.), Peoria and Eastern Railway / Annual Reports, 1928-1936, 1938-1961, 1963-1966, 1970-1973, 1976. This allowed the line's eastbound grade to be reduced and a shorter route for handling through traffic established. 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.), PRR / Secretary / Information Books, ca 1926-1954. Following Loomis' death in 1937, the presidency went to Loomis' assistant Duncan J. Kerr,[40] but in 1940 he was replaced by Albert N. Williams,[41] and the road came under the influence of the PRR. The Lehigh Valley Railroad's original and primary route between Easton and Allentown was built in 1855. The land that Asa Packer had obtained in 1872 was situated on the southern side of the Morris Canal's South Basin, but the CNJ already had its own facilities adjacent to that property and disputed the LVRR's title, which partly overlapped land the CNJ had filled for its own terminal.[33]. [17] In 1871, the entire line from Phillipsburg to Wilkes-Barre was leased to the CNJ. 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. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Record of Transportation Lines, 1877-1959. These maps, bridge and structure drawings remains unprocessed. ft.), Valley Real Estate Company / Cash Book, 1907-1922. Map of the Pennsylvania, Reading, and Lehigh Valley Railroads, and their connections. 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. The 1890s were a period of turmoil for the LVRR. [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. (.12 cu. Photograph by Donald W. Furler, Furler-12-021-01 . [1], Further rounds of acquisitions took place in 1868. ft.), PRR / VP of Eastern Region / Locality Files, 1918-1936. ft.), Manor Real Estate and Trust Company / Journals, 1886-1929. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Minute Books of the Road Committee, 1847-1948. Due to declining passenger patronage, the Lehigh Valley successfully petitioned the Interstate Commerce Commission to terminate all passenger service.