N Scale Lehigh Valley locomotive by Life-Like. Young, 1929-1943. [45], In 1944, the LVRR's gross revenues came close to $100,000,000 which was a milestone for the railroad.[1]. 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. ft.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / Record of Expenditures Under Authority of Forms 1416, ca 1917-1926. The LVRR was approved for such a restructuring in 1940 when several large mortgage loans were due. (1 cu. (3 cu. Oil and gas were supplanting coal as the fuel of choice. 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. 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. ft.), Bedford and Hollidaysburg Railroad / Minute Book, 1902-1911. (3 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. :-) Disclaimers: how long the Rights-of-Way were for, when the track was laid, and when the time limit was or will be up. The LVRR strove throughout the 1880s to acquire its own route to Jersey City and to the Jersey City waterfront. (10 cu. ft.), Enola Realty Company / Minute Books, 1905-1931. System Map (1940) An official, 1940 system map of the Lehigh & New England Railroad. (.2 cu. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Board Files: Wire and Pipe Crossing Agreements, 1925-1957. ft.), Wilcox Railroad Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. 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. [1], Further rounds of acquisitions took place in 1868. ft.), Peoria and Eastern Railway / Annual Reports, 1928-1936, 1938-1961, 1963-1966, 1970-1973, 1976. ft.), Berkshire Land Company / Cash Book, 1945-1953. ft.), PRR / VP of Special Services / Penn Central Merger Files, 1963-1965. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / General Correspondence Files of the St. Lawrence Power Project, 1948-1954. (.25 cu. ft.), Riverfront Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. Ended: Mar 02, 2023. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Board Files: BFA Series, ca 1905-1960. of Purchases / General Correspondence and Confidential Files of C.D. Initially, the LVRR contracted with the CNJ for rights from Roselle to Jersey City, but the LVRR eventually finished construction to its terminal in Jersey City over the Newark and Roselle Railway, the Newark and Passaic Railway, the Jersey City, Newark, and Western Railway, and the Jersey City Terminal Railway. The Lehigh Line is a railroad line in central New Jersey, Northeastern Pennsylvania, and the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania.It is owned and operated by the Norfolk Southern Railway.The line runs west from the vicinity of the Port of New York and New Jersey via Conrail's Lehigh Line to the Susquehanna River valley at the south end of the Wyoming Valley Coal Region. ft.), PRR / VP of Operation / Chief of Motive Power / Condition of Frt. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Reports on Coal and Coal Mines, 1861-1864. Language: A massive proxy fight ensued, with existing President Edward Eugene Loomis narrowly retaining his position with the support of Edward T. Stotesbury of J. P. Order #20 of ICC, 1916-1921. 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.), Enola Realty Company / Journals, 1905-1932. This route became important to Conrail as an alternate route to avoid Amtrak's former PRR/PC Northeast Corridor electrified route. 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 The United States Railroad Administration controlled the railroad from 1918 to 1920, at which time control was transferred back to the private companies. [24] The marshalling yard is now the residential area known as Harbortown. At Three Bridges, New Jersey, in Readington Township, the line interchanges with Black River and Western Railroad. Eventually, the Easton and Amboy Railroad was absorbed into the parent Lehigh Valley Railroad. (.1 cu. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Annual Reports of Water Companies, 1914. ft.), Downingtown and Lancaster Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. 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 Easton and Amboy's operations were labeled the "New Jersey Division" of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. ft.), PRR / VP of Finance / Treasurer / Treasurer's Cash Books, 1847-1863, 1865-1925. 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. F. A . Lehigh Valley Terminal DL&W Train Shed Metro Rail Stations: Light Rail Rapid Transit System Miami Street Freight House / Franklin Terminals Belt Line Railroad: Daniel Zornick,, Beltline Railroad Illustrated essay Map: 1894 City of Buffalo Atlas map (online Sept. 2020) Miscellany: Robert Holder, History of Early Railroads in Buffalo 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. Fowler's Panoramac Bird's Eye Maps, 1884-1905, recently added railroad maps that may not be included in the old topical sections (search for the word "rail" or "railroad"). 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. ft.), PRR / President / Presidential Correspondence of A.J. Bankruptcy trustee July 1970August 1974. (11.9 cu. The majority of passenger equipment is believed to have been scrapped some time after February 1961. These engineering drawings consist primarily of maps and structure drawings, although other subjects such as bridges, grade crossings and equipments are also documented. 93-236, 87 Stat. ft.), PRR / VP of Operation / Chief of Motive Power / Letter Books, 1926. 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. The Easton and Amboy was used as a connection to the New York metropolitan area, with a terminus in Jersey City, New Jersey. (.02 cu. (.25 cu. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Board of Directors' Roll Books, 1918-1967. Approximately 350,000 tons of anthracite moved to Perth Amboy during that year for transshipment by water. The LVRR operated several named trains in the post-World War II era. Lehigh Gorge Trains are located at 1 Susquehanna Street, Jim Thorpe, PA 18229 #570-325-8485 . And the County Tax Assessment Office would have current information as to ownership of each geographic parcel if that is in question. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Post Office Files, 1923-1933. (.1 cu. The LVRR, which had built coal docks in Perth Amboy when it built the Easton and Amboy in the 1870s, desired a terminal on the Hudson River close to New York City. 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. ft.), PRR / VP of Special Services / Water Company Files, 1905-1956. Please note: There also exists an unprocessed series of PRR/Penn Central maps entitled: Architectural Drawings and Maps, ca 1818-1970 (1883-1965). Lehigh Valley Railroad; Discussion related to the Lehigh Valley Railroad and predecessors for the period 1846-1976. Abandoned Lines By mileage, no state comes close to the abandonments suffered in Pennsylvania, which now amounts to roughly 6,500 miles. In many cases the Rights of Way were not perpetual, but were granted for, say, 99 years. (2.25 cu. Newly elected president Eben B. Thomas, formerly of the Erie, and his board of directors represented the combined interests of those railroads.[36]. Conrail abandoned most of the route in New York State to Buffalo after 1976, considerably shortening the line. 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. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Pennsylvania Railroad and Long Island RR Directors' Inspection Trip Book, 1947. 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 . Railroad Leader. (3 cu. (.1 cu. (.3 cu. 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. [30] As a result of its leases and acquisitions, the Lehigh Valley gained a near-monopoly on traffic in the Finger Lakes region. railroad archivist. ft.), Kensington and Tacony Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps. (.1 cu. (5 cu. The railroad would run parallel to the Lehigh River and break the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company's monopoly on coal traffic originating in the Wyoming Valley. ft.), Germantown, Norristown, and Phoenixville Railroad / Minute Book, 1881-1886. 6 Replies 6377 Views by lvrr325 Fri Aug 28, 2015 3:20 pm: ft.), Enola Realty Company / Ledgers, 1905-1932. Creator: Lehigh Valley Railroad Company Quanitities: 6 cubic feet. [1] (2 cu. The line gave the LVRR a route into Pottsville, Pennsylvania, and the Schuylkill Valley coal fields.[32]. In 1871, the LVRR leased the Morris Canal, which had a valuable outlet in Jersey City on the Hudson River opposite Manhattan. (.1 cu. ft.), Franklin Railroad Company / Minute Books, 1836-1853, 1859-1865. ft.), PRR / VP of Operation / Chief of Motive Power / Miscellaneous Motive Power Blueprints and Related Materials, ca 1900-1968. (.2 cu. ft.), PRR / VP of Altoona Works / Record of Operating Expenses of the Juniata Shop, 1914-1918. A daily freight train was put into operation leaving Easton in the morning and returning in the evening. (.15 cu. [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. (1 cu. [53] The only daylight New York-Buffalo train, the "Black Diamond", was discontinued in 1959. ft.), Western Pennsylvania Railroad / Minute Books, 1860-1903. [42], Following the Great Depression, the railroad had a few periods of prosperity, but was clearly in a slow decline. (.03 cu. The banking giant J. P. Morgan stepped in to refinance the LVRR debt and obtained control of the railroad in the process. - Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway . (.1 cu. In the years leading to 1973, the freight railroad system in the northeast of the U.S. was collapsing. The line's being downsized three times created two new rail lines: the Lehigh Secondary and the Lehigh Division, which was later sold to the Reading Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad (RBMN) in 1996; the RBMN would later cut back the Lehigh Division from Mehoopany to Dupont, Pennsylvania. 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. [34] The LVRR obtained a 5-year agreement to use the CNJ line to access the terminal, which opened in 1889. (.25 cu. In 1973, the United States Congress acted to create a bill to nationalize all bankrupt railroads which included the LV. (.1 cu. This series primarily represents agreements that the PRR entered into with individuals, companies, and local governments. Small party privacy and fantastic views! (.0 cu. The Depression had been difficult for all the railroads, and Congress recognized that bankruptcy laws needed revision. (.1 cu. The railroad then set its sights northward. 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. | Library of Congress Outline map of the middle Atlantic states showing the three major lines in different colors. 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. [31], In Pennsylvania, the Lehigh scored a coup by obtaining the charter formerly held by the Schuykill Haven and Lehigh River Railroad in 1886. (5 cu. [3], Little occurred between 1847 and 1851, save some limited grading near Allentown, Pennsylvania. Summary Outline map of the middle Atlantic states showing the three major lines in different colors. The purpose of the Temple Iron Company was to lock-up independent coal production and control the supply. (.55 cu. 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. In 1880, the LVRR established the Lehigh Valley Transportation Line to operate a fleet of ships on the Great Lakes with terminals in Chicago, Milwaukee, and Duluth. Lehigh Valley Railroad System Map.svg. The train arrives from far away and passes the camera, while workers are waving their handkerchiefs.[37]. Lehigh Valley Railroad Station was a beautiful building that dated back to 1890. (.1 cu. [1] Operations continued until the LVRR's bankruptcy in 1976. 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. All structured data from the file namespace is available under the. 1906 Antique Lehigh Valley Railroad Map Vintage Lehigh Valley Railway Map Birthday Gift for Dad Anniversary 527 ad vertisement by plaindealing. (11 cu. 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. 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. [26] The railroad had survived the economic depression of 1873 and was seeing its business recover. 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 . [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. 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 1890s were a period of turmoil for the LVRR. ft.), Northern Central Railroad / Committee Minute Book, 1875-1914. 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. 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. Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. On January 7, 1853, the railroad's name was changed to Lehigh Valley Railroad. By the 1960s, railroads in the East were struggling to survive. (.1 cu. (17 cu. (.25 cu. The economic depression following 1893 was harsh, and by 1897 the LVRR was in dire need of support. [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. (.2 cu. That project failed, but the lands were later used for the LVRR's own terminal in 1889. permission to lay track, run trains and do needed maintenance along a long, narrow swath. The Pennsylvania merged with the New York Central in 1968, but the Penn Central failed in 1970, causing a cascade of railroad failures throughout the East. 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. The railroad was chartered on August 2, 1847, and elected James Madison Porter its president on October 21. Paper or digital copies of the items on the list can then be ordered. ft.), PRR / President / Presidential Correspondence of M.W. In order to document their corporate valuations to the ICC, American railroad companies had to submit detailed maps of their real estate holdings. It passes through the approximately 5,000-foot Pattenburg Tunnel in West Portal, New Jersey, along its route. (.25 cu. 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. ft.), PRR / VP of Eastern Region / Press Copy Plan Book, 1899-1907. (92 cu. (3 cu. In 1928, he attempted to seat a new president and board. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Library /Publicity Photographs, ca 1830-1960. (1.1 cu. The Penn Haven and White Haven Railroad allowed the LV to reach White Haven. ft.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / List of Roadway Completion Reports (BV 586), 1919-1927. ft.), PRR / President / Presidential Correspondence of Samuel Rea, 1913-1925. In 1883 the railroad acquired land in northeast Pennsylvania and formed a subsidiary called The Glen Summit Hotel and Land Company. (6.05 cu. Then the CNJ opposed the LVRR's attempt to cross its line at Caven Point. Leadership of the company transferred smoothly to Charles Hartshorne, who had been vice president under Packer. Post Conrail ownership and secondary lines. ft.), PRR / V.P. Finally in 1900, the LVRR purchased the National Docks Railway outright. Someone in either of those two offices or perhaps in the County Planning Commission Office might also know the general status of the different rail lines in the county -i.e. (5 cu. 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. 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. ft.), Pennsylvania and Midland Railroad / Court Proceedings, 1895-1899. Lehigh Valley Pennsylvania Railroad Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh This 5-railroad network will remain essentially unchanged for the first half of the 20th Century. [8] The purchasing of the North Branch Canal saw an opportunity for a near monopoly in the region north of the Wyoming Valley. Map of Lehigh Valley Railroad's terminal at Jersey City Map of Lehigh Valley Railroad's Roselle and South Plainfield Railway In 1880, the LVRR established the Lehigh Valley Transportation Line to operate a fleet of ships on the Great Lakes with terminals in Chicago, Milwaukee, and Duluth. [2][13] By 1893, the LVRR owned or controlled 53,000 acres (210km2) of coal lands. Keystone State. Engineering Drawings, [ca.1886-1940 (bulk: 1915-1930)]{#311m.284} will be of interest. This microfilm, such as it is, is our best and most comprehensive source of PRR maps at this time. ft.), Valley Real Estate Company - Ledger, 1907-1922. ft.), PRR / VP of Eastern Region / Locality Files, 1918-1936. (.21 cu. 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. File. These tracks were laid and the Easton and Amboy Railroad was opened for business on June 28, 1875, with hauling coal. ft.), Manor Real Estate and Trust Company / Stock Transfer Book, 1889-1931. In the following year, the LVRRa standard gauge railroadcompleted arrangements with the Erie Railroad, at that time having a six-foot gauge, for a third rail within the Erie mainline tracks to enable the LV equipment to run through to Elmira and later to Buffalo. (.1 cu. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate & Taxation / Reports on Coal and Coal Mines, 1861-1864. of F. Thomson and A.J. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Printed Abstracts of Title, 1869, 1875. (.11 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. Originally incorporated as the Delaware, Lehigh, Schuylkill and Susquehanna Railroad Company. [2] It was sometimes known as the Route of the Black Diamond, named after the anthracite it transported. 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. In 1875, the holdings were consolidated into the Lehigh Valley Coal Company, which was wholly owned by the LVRR. Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973, Pub.L. (.2 cu. The 46-mile-long (74km) LVRR connected at Mauch Chunk with the Beaver Meadow Railroad. ft.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / Annual Statement of Charges and Credits to the Investment Account for Property (BV 589), 1917-1930. Other resolutions: 320 240 pixels | 640 480 pixels | 1,024 768 pixels | 1,280 960 pixels | 2,560 1,920 pixels. (21 cu. (1 cu. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Notes for Centennial History of PRR Company, ca 1946-1949. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Annual Reports and Data, 1920-1933. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Corporate Histories Prepared in Accord. No comprehensive finding aid exists for these records. An sample frame of this film appears to the right of this paragraph, though not all frames show the names of property owners. Full Promotional Video: Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway 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. In 1896 the very early film Black Diamond Express was produced by Thomas A. Edison's company Kinetoscope. ft.), Enola Realty Company / Property Sales Accounts, 1905-1914. 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? (.2 cu. Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co. 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. The Geneva, Ithaca & Athens Railroad passed into the hands of the LVRR in September 1876, which extended from the New York state line near Sayre, Pennsylvania, to Geneva, New York, a distance of 75 miles.
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