ft.), PRR / VP of Operation / Chief of Motive Power / Miscellaneous Motive Power Blueprints and Related Materials, ca 1900-1968. ft.), Downingtown and Lancaster Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. While the records are primarily legal documents rather than maps, information provided includes the effective date, purpose, names of interacting parties, terms, financial arrangements, and description of principle right or property conveyed. Conrail abandoned most of the route in New York State to Buffalo after 1976, considerably shortening the line. (.1 cu. The "T" intersection is also visible on the map where the trains would turn into the depot at the village of Hemlock. 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.), Susquehanna and Clearfield Railroad / Annual Report to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. The Maple Leaf and the John Wilkes were the last operating long-distance trains, terminated that day. Other resolutions: 320 240 pixels | 640 480 pixels | 1,024 768 pixels | 1,280 960 pixels | 2,560 1,920 pixels. ft.), Shamokin Valley and Pottsville Railroad / Acts of Assembly Relating to the Shamokin Valley and Pottsville Railroad, 1858. Railroad Leader. This took effect on February 4, 1961. Annual Report of the State Board of Assessors of the State of New Jersey, News Printing Co., 1889, p.85. ft.), PRR / Comptroller / General Correspondence Files, 1924-1964. Originally incorporated as the Delaware, Lehigh, Schuylkill and Susquehanna Railroad Company. [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.), Suquehanna, Bloomsburg, and Berwick Railroad - Ledger, 1902-1904. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Poor's Railroad Manuals, 1923-1949. 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. to Glen Summit Springs Original file (SVG file, nominally 800 600 pixels, file size: 447 KB). ft.), PRR / President / Presidential Correspondence of Samuel Rea, 1913-1925. (.1 cu. The line and the rest of the Lehigh Valley Railroad was absorbed into Conrail in 1976 and was maintained as a main line into the New York City area. The line became known as the Lehigh Line during Conrail ownership. The South Basin terminal was used solely for freight, having docks and car float facilities. System Map (1940) An official, 1940 system map of the Lehigh & New England Railroad. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Secretary's Correspondence, 1860-1966 (1905-1966). Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps. 6 Replies 6377 Views by lvrr325 Fri Aug 28, 2015 3:20 pm: [3], Little occurred between 1847 and 1851, save some limited grading near Allentown, Pennsylvania. [1][19][bettersourceneeded][20]. (4 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. Passengers were routed to the Pennsylvania Railroad's terminal and ferry. Other RBMN Train Rides . The 1890s were a period of turmoil for the LVRR. 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. of F. Thomson and A.J. By controlling supply, the coal combination attempted to keep prices and profits high. [45], In 1944, the LVRR's gross revenues came close to $100,000,000 which was a milestone for the railroad.[1]. ft.), PRR / VP of Eastern Region / Locality Files, 1918-1936. (.12 cu. Ended: Mar 02, 2023. (.03 cu. [5], At Easton, the LVRR interchanged coal at the Delaware River where coal could be shipped to Philadelphia on the Delaware Division Canal or transported across the river to Phillipsburg, New Jersey, where the Morris Canal and the Central Railroad of New Jersey (CNJ) could carry it to the New York City market. 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. 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. :-) Disclaimers: ft.), PRR / Secretary / Minute Books of the Real Estate Committee, 1869-1918. (2 cu. Pennsylvania. [2] It was sometimes known as the Route of the Black Diamond, named after the anthracite it transported. (1 cu. ft.), Philadelphia and Erie Railroad / Record of Track Material Loaned for Construction of Lumber Branches, 1895-1906. (.2 cu. [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. President Richard Nixon signed the Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973 into law. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Board of Directors' Inspection Trip Book, 1937. The Easton and Amboy Railroad was a railroad built across central New Jersey by the Lehigh Valley Railroad to run from Phillipsburg, New Jersey, to Bound Brook, New Jersey, and it was built to connect the Lehigh Valley Railroad coal-hauling operations in Pennsylvania and the Port of New York and New Jersey to serve consumer markets in the New York metropolitan area, eliminating the Phillipsburg connection with the CNJ that had previously been the only outlet to the New York tidewater; until it was built, the terminus of the LVRR had been at Phillipsburg on the Delaware River opposite Easton, Pennsylvania. [44] In 1957, the LVRR again stopped dividends. [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. No comprehensive finding aid exists for these records. 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. 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. Congress reacted with the 1906 Hepburn Act, which among other things forbade railroads from owning the commodities that they transported. The project section runs from the city of Santa Clara, through San Jos at Diridon Station to Gilroy, across the Pacheco Pass, and including the Central Valley Wye extending north to . Morgan. This page was last edited on 26 February 2023, at 16:09. Lehigh Gorge Trains are located at 1 Susquehanna Street, Jim Thorpe, PA 18229 #570-325-8485 . That southern field held the largest reserves of anthracite in Pennsylvania and accounted for a large percentage of the total production. 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. Dates / Origin Date Issued: 1887 Place: Philadelphia? The CNJ, anticipating that the LVRR intended to create its own line across New Jersey, protected itself by leasing the Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad (L&S) to ensure a continuing supply of coal traffic. 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. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Pamphlet Description of Corporations in which PRR and Subs. (1.5 cu. Winning bid: US $15.00. (.02 cu. linearly along particular rail lines. (2 cu. In the years leading to 1973, the freight railroad system in the northeast of the U.S. was collapsing. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Minute Books of the Road Committee, 1847-1948. 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. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Guide for the PRR with Extensive Map Including the Entire Route, 1855. ft.), Erie Railroad / Miscellaneous Land Records, [ca. (.55 cu. [24] The marshalling yard is now the residential area known as Harbortown. ft.), PRR / VP Eastern Region / Letter Books, 1924-1926. He served as chairman of the board while the presidency was vacant until PRR takeover. ft.), West Lane Garage Company / Minute Book, 1934-1943. 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. ft.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / Valuable Papers Files, 1850-1966. 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. how long the Rights-of-Way were for, when the track was laid, and when the time limit was or will be up. ft.), PRR / Secretary / General Correspondence Files, ca 1887-1972. 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 ft.), Northern Central Railroad / Committee Minute Book, 1875-1914. 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. (.1 cu. (1 cu. [26] The railroad had survived the economic depression of 1873 and was seeing its business recover. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Rules and Regulations, 1858-1925. 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. The owners still owned the property, but the railroad was allowed to conduct agreed-upon activities on the swath in question. (.3 cu. Most of the traffic along the line consists of intermodal and general merchandise trains going to yards such as Oak Island Yard in Newark, New Jersey, and Croxton Yard in Jersey City. 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. (59 cu. The former Lehigh Valley tracks between Manville, New Jersey, and Newark are operated separately by Conrail Shared Assets Operations as their own Lehigh Line. ft.), Columbia and Port Deposit Railway / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. This page was last edited on 15 September 2020, at 21:11. 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. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Board Files: Wire and Pipe Crossing Agreements, 1925-1957. ft.), Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad / Contract Books, 1864-1891. (1 cu. ft.), State Realty Company / Minute Book, 1907-1909. [13] With these acquisitions, the LVRR obtained the right to mine coal as well as transport it. 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. (.1 cu. Several combinations occurred, but each fell apart as one road or another abrogated its agreement. ft.), Susquehanna Coal Company / Minute Books, 1869-1940. ft.), Pioneer Real Estate Company / Minute Book, 1946-1947. An sample frame of this film appears to the right of this paragraph, though not all frames show the names of property owners. [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. (.10 cu. First, it purchased a large parcel of land in Buffalo, the Tifft farm, for use as terminal facilities, and obtained a New York charter for the Lehigh Valley Railway (a similar name to the LVRR, but with "railway" instead). ft.), PRR / VP of Eastern Region / Press Copy Plan Book, 1899-1907. (.2 cu. These operators include: The Lehigh Line was the Lehigh Valley Railroad's first rail line and served as the main line. (.25 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. 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. ft.), Susquehanna, Bloomsburg, and Berwick Railroad / Minute Book, 1902-1918. ft.), Philadelphia and Erie Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. Right-of-way agreements might be attached to or referenced in the chain of title (i.e. At Catasauqua, the Catasauqua and Fogelsville Railroad transported coal, ore, limestone and iron for furnaces of the Thomas Iron Company, the Lehigh Crane Iron Company, the Lehigh Valley Iron Works, the Carbon Iron Company, and others. 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. ft.), Manor Real Estate and Trust Company / Journals, 1886-1929. [14] A year later, Harry Packer died of illness, and Asa's 51-year-old nephew Elisha Packer Wilbur was elected president, a position he held for 13 years.[27]. Language: ft.), Germantown, Norristown, and Phoenixville Railroad / Minute Book, 1881-1886. The Shortsville to Victor segment became the Ontario Central Railroad in 1979 (the Ontario Central became part of the Finger Lakes Railway in October 2007[51]). Ad vertisement from shop plaindealing. (17.5 cu. ft.), PRR / V.P. ft.), Berkshire Land Company / Journal and Ledger, 1939-1955. Some lines were subsequently abandoned and even dismantled long before the expiration date came up. (.1 cu. ft.), Manor Real Estate and Trust Company / Property Ledger, 1886-1916. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Post Office Files, 1923-1933. ft.), Nescopec Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Annual Reports of Water Companies, 1914. ft.), Clearfield and Jefferson Railway / Annual Reports, 1886-1888. 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. The line later expanded past Allentown to Lehigh Valley Terminal in Buffalo and past Easton to New York City, bringing the Lehigh Valley Railroad to these metropolitan areas. ft.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / Statements of Additions and Betterments (GA-8), 1918-1929, 1931-1932. ft.), Philadelphia and Erie Railroad / Minute Book of the Road Committee, Finance Comm. (.03 cu. (29 cu. (.2 cu. Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co. (.1 cu. (17 cu. United States (except New York) States. The Lehigh Line still exists and still serves as a major freight railroad line that operates in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. 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. (1.25 cu. Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973, Pub.L. 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? ft.), Bustleton Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. The tracks from Dupont to Mehoopany became a new rail line called the Susquehanna Branch. The original line retains its original route when it was first constructed and is served by Norfolk Southern Railway. ft.), Valley Real Estate Company / Minute Book, 1907-1922. LVRR Map 1 2016-08-10T14:17:31 . [50] The "3R Act," as it was called, provided interim funding to the bankrupt railroads and defined a new "Consolidated Rail Corporation" under the AAR's plan. 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. (.01 cu. The Lehigh Valley Railroad began providing service to Hemlock lake in 1895. At the time, anthracite was transported by boat down the Lehigh River. 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. (.16 cu. 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. Creator: Lehigh Valley Railroad Company Quanitities: 6 cubic feet. Finally, in 1889, the LVRR gained control of the Geneva, Ithaca, and Sayre Railroad and completed its line of rail through New York. This route became important to Conrail as an alternate route to avoid Amtrak's former PRR/PC Northeast Corridor electrified route. [1], Throughout the 1920s the railroad remained in the hands of the Morgan / Drexel banking firm, but in 1928 an attempt was made to wrest control from it. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Printed Abstracts of Title, 1869, 1875. Indicates major drainage, cities and towns, and names the railroads along the lines. 5 out of 5 stars (5,213) $ 19.50 FREE shipping Add to Favorites . 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. (1.34 cu. ft.), Pennsylvania and Midland Railroad / Court Proceedings, 1895-1899. Fortunately, grain tonnage was increasing and the company transported large quantities from Buffalo to Philadelphia and other Eastern markets. Lehigh Valley Railroad Station was a beautiful building that dated back to 1890. Proudly founded in 1681 as a place of tolerance and freedom. [13][35] Unfortunately, it overreached and in 1893 was unable to meet its obligations. (.1 cu. File. ft.), PRR / VP of Operation / Chief of Motive Power / Letter Books, 1926. [39], Following the defeat of its plan, the D&H sold its stock to the Pennsylvania Railroad. These tracks were laid and the Easton and Amboy Railroad was opened for business on June 28, 1875, with hauling coal. Lehigh Valley Railroad; Discussion related to the Lehigh Valley Railroad and predecessors for the period 1846-1976. By the 1960s, railroads in the East were struggling to survive. (92 cu. 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.), PRR / VP of Operation / Chief of Motive Power / Condition of Frt. On January 7, 1853, the railroad's name was changed to Lehigh Valley Railroad. And the County Tax Assessment Office would have current information as to ownership of each geographic parcel if that is in question. Construction began in earnest in 1853, and the line opened between Easton and Allentown on June 11, 1855. 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. (.15 cu. In 1973, the United States Congress acted to create a bill to nationalize all bankrupt railroads which included the LV. 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). It was located along the Hamilton Street Bridge in Allentown. (.1 cu. of Purchases / General Correspondence and Confidential Files of C.D. Engineering Drawings, [ca.1886-1940 (bulk: 1915-1930)]{#311m.284} will be of interest. 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. (.4 cu. Two final blows fell in the 1950s: the passage of the Federal-Aid Highway Act in 1956, better known as the Interstate Highway Act, and the opening of the Saint Lawrence Seaway in 1959. The 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. The best place to find out the current status of a particular piece of land would be the Recorder of Deeds and/or Tax Mapping office in the relevant county's courthouse. 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. The line was later extended out to the northwest past Jim Thorpe to the Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, area and later it reached the Buffalo, New York, area and past Easton all the way to Perth Amboy, New Jersey, and then switched direction to the northeast to Jersey City, New Jersey, later cut back to Newark, New Jersey. The railroad ended operations in 1976 and merged into Conrail along with several northeastern railroads that same year. This microfilm, such as it is, is our best and most comprehensive source of PRR maps at this time. In 1864, the LVRR began acquiring feeder railroads and merging them with its system. Ball, Chief Conveyancer and Benjamin W. Carskaddon, Assistant Real Estate Agent, 1876-1902. 1902 - NYC introduces The 20th Century Limited. (2 cu. (5 cu. After the U.S. entered World War I, the railroads were nationalized in order to prevent strikes and interruptions. Canal, 1901. 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. (1 cu. . 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. File history. (.1 cu. ft.), Philadelphia and Erie Railroad / Report to the Superintendant of the Tenth Census, 1880. 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. 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 . ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Lease and Agreement Book, 1858-1889.
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