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. 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. The former Lehigh Valley tracks between Manville, New Jersey, and Newark are operated separately by Conrail Shared Assets Operations as their own Lehigh Line. (.2 cu. ft.). 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. ft.), PRR / VP of Purchase / General Correspondence and Confidential Files of C.D. Some lines were subsequently abandoned and even dismantled long before the expiration date came up. (.25 cu. (.11 cu. ft.), Valley Real Estate Company / Minute Book, 1907-1922. ft.), Northern Central Railroad / Mortgage of the Northern Central Railway to Wistar Morris and Josiah Bacon, Trustees, 1868. In New Jersey, the LVRR embarked on a decade-long legal battle with the CNJ over terminal facilities in Jersey City. [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. The coal railroads had begun in 1873 to form pools to regulate production and set quotas for each railroad. Ended: Mar 02, 2023. ft.), North Penn Coal Company / Minute Book, 1913-1938. (11.9 cu. 1902 - NYC introduces The 20th Century Limited. 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. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Record of Transportation Lines, 1877-1959. In 1875, the holdings were consolidated into the Lehigh Valley Coal Company, which was wholly owned by the LVRR. 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 . [2] It was sometimes known as the Route of the Black Diamond, named after the anthracite it transported. (35 cu. ft.), Enola Realty Company / Property Sales Accounts, 1905-1914. (.05 cu. From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. ft.), Manor Real Estate and Trust Company / Ledgers, 1903-1925. See original listing. ft.), Manor Real Estate and Trust Company / Stock Transfer Book, 1889-1931. (.03 cu. (.1 cu. 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. LVRR Map 1 2016-08-10T14:17:31 . (2 cu. ft.), Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad / Contract Books, 1864-1891. (143 cu. ft.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / Abstract and Opinion of the Acts of the Legislature and Casesin reference to the Title of the North Branch Division of the Penna. 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.), Bedford and Hollidaysburg Railroad / Minute Book, 1902-1911. 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. In 1883, Hartshorne retired to allow Harry E. Packer, Asa's 32-year-old youngest son, to assume the Presidency. V2 en:Roselle and South Plainfield Railway. Bankruptcy trustee July 1970August 1974. This page was last edited on 26 February 2023, at 16:09. (.1 cu. ft.), PRR / VP of Special Services / Penn Central Merger Files, 1963-1965. 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. No comprehensive finding aid exists for these records. Lehigh Valley Railroad. ft.), Susquehanna, Bloomsburg, and Berwick Railroad / Minute Book, 1902-1918. ft.), Manor Real Estate and Trust Company / Indexes to Minutes, 1870-1954. ft.), Johnsonburg Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. ft.), Mifflin and Centre County Railroad / Monthly Construction Accounts, 1862-1869. The Easton and Amboy was used as a connection to the New York metropolitan area, with a terminus in Jersey City, New Jersey. 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. 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. ft.), PRR / VP Central Region / Blueprint Track Chart of Branch Lines, 1938. Lehigh Valley Railroad System Map.svg. ft.), Franklin Railroad Company / Minute Books, 1836-1853, 1859-1865. Congress reacted with the 1906 Hepburn Act, which among other things forbade railroads from owning the commodities that they transported. Clement, 1935-1949. (.2 cu. (.1 cu. ft.), Columbia and Port Deposit Railway / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. The LVRR operated several named trains in the post-World War II era. Talk of the railroad had been in the air since 1849 and eventually a Lehigh Valley track was laid into the valley east of Livonia Center. ft.), Erie Railroad / Tax Registers, 1891-1915. To reach Wilkes-Barre, the LVRR began constructing an extension from White Haven, Pennsylvania, to Wilkes-Barre. (10 cu. (.1 cu. Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co. Construction began in earnest in 1853, and the line opened between Easton and Allentown on June 11, 1855. Any of the State Archives aerial photograph collections, including: images for these and other years available online via the, MG-286 Hollyman Publicity Photographs, ca 1940-1959. 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. 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 / VP of Special Services / Water Company Files, 1905-1956. In 1972, the Lehigh Valley Railroad assumed the remaining Pennsylvania trackage of the Central Railroad of New Jersey, a competing anthracite railroad which had entered bankruptcy as well. The original maps were never transferred to the Archives, but a book by book inventory of the film exists. In 1999, the Norfolk Southern Railway which is owned by the Norfolk Southern Corporation acquired the Lehigh Line in the Conrail split with CSX Transportation but the tracks from Manville, New Jersey, to Newark, New Jersey, were kept with Conrail in order for both Norfolk Southern and CSX to have equal competition in the Northeast. Then the CNJ opposed the LVRR's attempt to cross its line at Caven Point. In many cases the Rights of Way were not perpetual, but were granted for, say, 99 years. 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. (1 cu. (.02 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. Map of the Pennsylvania, Reading, and Lehigh Valley Railroads, and their connections. 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 South Basin terminal was used solely for freight, having docks and car float facilities. Passengers were routed to the Pennsylvania Railroad's terminal and ferry. ft.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / Property Schedules, (BV 634, 635 and 636), 1936-1941. (5 cu. In 1973, the United States Congress acted to create a bill to nationalize all bankrupt railroads which included the LV. It was located along the Hamilton Street Bridge in Allentown. ft.), PRR / President / Presidential Correspondence of M.W. A long series of antitrust investigations and lawsuits resulted, culminating in a 1911 Supreme Court decision that forced the LVRR to divest itself of the coal companies it had held since 1868. 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. Young, 1929-1943. (.3 cu. ft.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / Statements of Additions and Betterments (GA-8), 1918-1929, 1931-1932. (.1 cu. 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. (.15 cu. ft.), Wilcox Railroad Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. [4] All this changed in October 1851, when Asa Packer took majority control of the DLS&S. Three months later the line branched out to the northwest past Allentown to Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, on September 12, 1855. (1.25 cu. [42], Following the Great Depression, the railroad had a few periods of prosperity, but was clearly in a slow decline. Finally, in 1889, the LVRR gained control of the Geneva, Ithaca, and Sayre Railroad and completed its line of rail through New York. (.25 cu. 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 . Original file (SVG file, nominally 800 600 pixels, file size: 447 KB). Finally in 1887 the two railroads reached a settlement, and construction of the LVRR's Jersey City freight yard began. Creator: Lehigh Valley Railroad Company Quanitities: 6 cubic feet. Additional passenger trains ran from Philadelphia to Scranton and westward. (.02 cu. ft.), Berkshire Land Company / Journal and Ledger, 1939-1955. (1.1 cu. (11 cu. Bridging Newark Bay proved difficult. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Histories of Various Companies, ca 1934-1965. ft.), Penn Central Corp. / General Correspondence Files, 1955-1976. ft.), Enola Realty Company / Ledgers, 1905-1932. (.15 cu. Packer brought additional financing to the railroad, installed Robert H. Sayre as chief engineer, and renamed the company the "Lehigh Valley Railroad." The LVRR's Newark and Roselle Railway in 1891 brought the line from Roselle into Newark, where passengers connected to the Pennsylvania Railroad. VDOMDHTMLtml> Map of the Pennsylvania, Reading, and Lehigh Valley Railroads, and their connections. (2 cu. And the County Tax Assessment Office would have current information as to ownership of each geographic parcel if that is in question. 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. permission to lay track, run trains and do needed maintenance along a long, narrow swath. (1 cu. The Lehigh Valley Railroad's original and primary route between Easton and Allentown was built in 1855. The Association of American Railroads, which opposed nationalization, submitted an alternate proposal for a government-funded private company. Subsequently, the LVRR favored engines from Baldwin Locomotive Works and William Mason, but tried many other designs as it experimented with motive power that could handle the line's heavy grades.[7]. ft.), Philadelphia and Erie Railroad / Record of Track Material Loaned for Construction of Lumber Branches, 1895-1906. 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. Oil and gas were supplanting coal as the fuel of choice. The series listed below contain scattered information and/or maps of PRR and Penn Central real estate holdings in Manuscript Group 286. ft.), Philadelphia and Erie Railroad / Report to the Superintendant of the Tenth Census, 1880. Its bankruptcy resulted in economic chaos, bringing on the financial panic of 1893 and forcing the LVRR to break the lease and resume its own operations, leaving it unable to pay dividends on its stock until 1904. In 1941, the Pennsylvania placed its shares in a voting trust after reaching an agreement with the New York Central regarding the PRR's purchase of the Wabash. (.1 cu. 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.), PRR / VP of Operation / Chief of Motive Power / Condition of Frt. 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! This allowed the line's eastbound grade to be reduced and a shorter route for handling through traffic established. The 1890s were a period of turmoil for the LVRR. (2 cu. The LVRR was approved for such a restructuring in 1940 when several large mortgage loans were due. At Phillipsburg, New Jersey, the Belvidere Delaware Railroad connected to Trenton, New Jersey. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Printed Abstracts of Title, 1869, 1875. [53] The only daylight New York-Buffalo train, the "Black Diamond", was discontinued in 1959. ft.), Pennsylvania and North Western Railroad / Annual Reports, 1890-1901. ft.), Northern Central Railroad / Committee Minute Book, 1875-1914. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Information Books, ca 1926-1954. The first such combination occurred in 1873, followed by others in 1878, 1884, and 1886. (.3 cu. 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). 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. (17 cu. (.1 cu. Approximately 350,000 tons of anthracite moved to Perth Amboy during that year for transshipment by water. 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. [34] The LVRR obtained a 5-year agreement to use the CNJ line to access the terminal, which opened in 1889. The 46-mile-long (74km) LVRR connected at Mauch Chunk with the Beaver Meadow Railroad. Coal, steel, passengers, and various other freight could be carried via the Lehigh Valley Railroad to either the Great Lakes or . From 1855 to 1879 the Lehigh Valley Railroad had grown from its original road between Mauch Chunk and Easton, to include 658 miles of track as far away as Buffalo and New York City. 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. 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.), Manor Real Estate and Trust Company / Journals, 1903-1925. The banking giant J. P. Morgan stepped in to refinance the LVRR debt and obtained control of the railroad in the process. [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.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / Annual Statement of Charges and Credits to the Investment Account for Property (BV 589), 1917-1930. In 1883 the railroad acquired land in northeast Pennsylvania and formed a subsidiary called The Glen Summit Hotel and Land Company. 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. (2 cu. (.16 cu. (.15 cu. V2A en:Lehigh Valley Terminal Railway; V2B en:Greenville and Hudson Railway; V2C en:National Docks Railway; V2D en:National Docks and New Jersey Junction Railway; V2E en:Irvington Railroad; Short lines . In 1864, the LVRR began acquiring feeder railroads and merging them with its system. For 25 years the Lehigh Canal had enjoyed a monopoly on downstream transportation and was charging independent producers high fees. The line is part of Norfolk Southern's Harrisburg Division and it is part of Norfolk Southern's Crescent Corridor, a railroad corridor. (.01 cu. It opened a hotel in Glen Summit, Pennsylvania, called the Glen Summit Hotel to serve lunch to passengers traveling on the line. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Survey Books and Legal Papers of the Pennsylvania Canal Company, 1857-1922. 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. By the 1960s, railroads in the East were struggling to survive. (.01 cu. On January 7, 1853, the railroad's name was changed to Lehigh Valley Railroad. [1], On May 17, 1879, Asa Packer, the company's founder and leader, died at the age of 73. [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. Please note: There also exists an unprocessed series of PRR/Penn Central maps entitled: Architectural Drawings and Maps, ca 1818-1970 (1883-1965). (.6 cu. Engineering Drawings, [ca.1886-1940 (bulk: 1915-1930)]{#311m.284} will be of interest. 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. ft.), Manor Real Estate and Trust Company / Minute Books, 1870-1954. (.02 cu. 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. (1 cu. (6.5 cu. Ball, Chief Conveyancer and Benjamin W. Carskaddon, Assistant Real Estate Agent, 1876-1902. Other RBMN Train Rides . [44] In 1957, the LVRR again stopped dividends. (.3 cu. The two roads had entered a shared trackage agreement in this area in 1965 to reduce costs, as both had parallel routes from Wilkes-Barre virtually all the way to metropolitan New York, often on adjoining grades through Pennsylvania. 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 / VP of Real Estate / Post Office Files, 1923-1933. 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. ft.), VP of Real Estate / Letter Press Books of W.H. (.1 cu. The Easton and Amboy's operations were labeled the "New Jersey Division" of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. (.2 cu. (17.5 cu. Throughout that decade, expansions continued into New York by taking over smaller lines and building new railroad. (.1 cu. Order #20 of ICC, 1916-1921. Finally after settling the legal issues, the Newark Bay was bridged in 1892 by the Jersey City, Newark and Western Railway and connected to the National Docks Railway, which was partly owned by the LVRR and which reached the LVRR's terminal. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Board Files: Green Sheet Leases, 1926-1957. 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. In the following years, the Pennsylvania quietly obtained more stock, both directly and through railroads it controlled, primarily the Wabash. You may be trying to access this site from a secured browser on the server. 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. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Contract Book of George B. Roberts, 1869-1884. 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. 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 LVRR strove throughout the 1880s to acquire its own route to Jersey City and to the Jersey City waterfront. ft.), Erie Railroad / Miscellaneous Land Records, [ca. Canal, 1901. 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. By 1970, this had dwindled to 927 miles of road and 1963 miles of track. (1 cu. (.02 cu. ft.), PRR / Secretary / One Hundredth Anniversary Historical Files, ca 1876-1946. From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. ft.), PRR / VP of Special Services / Merger Testimony and Exhibits, 1962-1967. [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. :-)). ft.), PRR / VP of Special Services / Merger Studies, 1950-1970. ft.), PRR / President / Clement / Eastern Region Coordinating Committee Files, 1933-1936. File history. At the time, anthracite was transported by boat down the Lehigh River. The Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad is a defunct railroad that operated in eastern Pennsylvania during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. (.05 cu. (1.5 cu. (.1 cu. (.1 cu. The purchase of the Penn Haven and White Haven was the first step in expanding to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. 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 / Secretary's Correspondence, 1860-1966 (1905-1966). 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. In the early part of October 1855, a contract was made with Howard & Co. of Philadelphia to do the freighting business of the railroad (except coal, iron, and iron ore). 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. ft.), Girard Point Storage / Record of Deeds, 1881-1896. 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. These operators include: The Lehigh Line was the Lehigh Valley Railroad's first rail line and served as the main line. (1 cu. (.1 cu. Then in 1887 the Lehigh Valley Railroad obtained a lease on the Southern Central Railroad (the LVRR previously had trackage rights on the railroad starting in 1870), which had a route from Waverly northward into the Finger Lakes region. ft.), Philadelphia and Erie Railroad / Minute Book of the Road Committee, Finance Comm. 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. ft.), Kensington and Tacony Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. ft.), Frederick and Northern Railroad / Minute Book, 1873-1897. w/ Val. In 1916, a horrendous explosion occurred at the facility, destroying ships and buildings, and breaking windows in Manhattan. The Depression had been difficult for all the railroads, and Congress recognized that bankruptcy laws needed revision. 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. (.1 cu. ft.), Riverfront Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. The line had a descending or level grade from Mauch Chunk to Easton and with the exception of the curve at Mauch Chunk had no curve of less than 700 feet radius. The hotel remained with the company until 1909, when it was bought by residents of the surrounding cottages. 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. (.1 cu. Most of the other remaining Lehigh Valley track serves as branch lines, or has been sold to shortline and regional operators. ft.), Erie-Lackawanna Railway / General Correspondence Files, 1953-1967, Erie Railroad / Land Record Books,[ ca 1831-1915]. In 1896 the very early film Black Diamond Express was produced by Thomas A. Edison's company Kinetoscope. That project failed, but the lands were later used for the LVRR's own terminal in 1889. A final attempt to establish a coal cartel took place in 1904 with the formation of the Temple Iron Company. ft.), Susquehanna Coal Company / Leases, 1883-1939. 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. 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 1866, two years after the purchase of the Penn Haven and White Haven, the extension from White Haven to Wilkes-Barre opened.[1]. ft.), West Lane Garage Company / Minute Book, 1934-1943. 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. 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. The majority of passenger equipment is believed to have been scrapped some time after February 1961. Among them: The primary passenger motive power for the LVRR in the diesel era was the ALCO PA-1 car body diesel-electric locomotive, of which the LVRR had fourteen. 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. File. 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. Indicates major drainage, cities and towns, and names the railroads along the lines. A long segment west from Van Etten Junction to Buffalo was included in the Conrail takeover, but was mostly torn-up not long afterward. (3.5 cu. 1948: ALCO PA passenger diesels replace steam on all passenger runs.