[1], The port on Lake Erie at Buffalo was critical to the LVRR's shipments of coal to western markets and for receipt of grain sent by the West to eastern markets. Map of the Pennsylvania, Reading, and Lehigh Valley Railroads, and their connections. 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. File history. (5 cu. 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. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Board Files: Wire and Pipe Crossing Agreements, 1925-1957. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Survey Books and Legal Papers of the Pennsylvania Canal Company, 1857-1922. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Board of Directors' Roll Books, 1918-1967. Although the decade began with the completion of its terminals at Buffalo and Jersey City, and the establishment of a trunk line across New York, the company soon became entangled in costly business dealings which ultimately led to the Packer family's loss of control. ft.), PRR / VP of Operation / Chief of Motive Power / Miscellaneous Motive Power Blueprints and Related Materials, ca 1900-1968. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Board Files: BFA Series, ca 1905-1960. (143 cu. (.1 cu. (.2 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. 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 cu. To support the expected increase in traffic, the wooden bridge over the Delaware River at Easton was also replaced by a double-tracked, 1,191-foot (363m) iron bridge.[23]. ft.), Enola Realty Company / Ledgers, 1905-1932. The majority of the Lehigh Line is now owned by the Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) and retains much of its original route in eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey, although it no longer goes into New York City. [2][13] By 1893, the LVRR owned or controlled 53,000 acres (210km2) of coal lands. (1 cu. 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. A daily freight train was put into operation leaving Easton in the morning and returning in the evening. 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. ft.) {#286m.254}. ft.), Finley Company / Minute Books, 1945-1959. 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. Ad vertisement from shop plaindealing. Pennsylvania. 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. 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. In order to document their corporate valuations to the ICC, American railroad companies had to submit detailed maps of their real estate holdings. ft.), Western Pennsylvania Railroad / Minute Books, 1860-1903. [3], Little occurred between 1847 and 1851, save some limited grading near Allentown, Pennsylvania. (3 cu. (MP 13/MP 13a/MP13c), 1896-1920. [11] Over the next dozen years the railroad acquired other large tracts of land: 13,000 acres (53km2) in 1870,[9] 5,800 acres (23km2) in 1872,[12] and acquisition of the Philadelphia Coal Company in 1873 with its large leases in the Mahanoy basin. Indicates major drainage, cities and towns, and names the railroads along the lines. (.02 cu. Additional passenger trains ran from Philadelphia to Scranton and westward. The LVRR's Newark and Roselle Railway in 1891 brought the line from Roselle into Newark, where passengers connected to the Pennsylvania Railroad. [34] The LVRR obtained a 5-year agreement to use the CNJ line to access the terminal, which opened in 1889. The Easton and Amboy was used as a connection to the New York metropolitan area, with a terminus in Jersey City, New Jersey. The LVRR strove throughout the 1880s to acquire its own route to Jersey City and to the Jersey City waterfront. 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. (25 cu. Hurricane Agnes in 1972 damaged the rundown Northeast railway network, which put the solvency of other railroads including the LVRR in danger; the somewhat more solvent Erie Lackawanna Railway (EL) was also damaged by Hurricane Agnes. (.15 cu. By 1970, this had dwindled to 927 miles of road and 1963 miles of track. Finally, in 1889, the LVRR gained control of the Geneva, Ithaca, and Sayre Railroad and completed its line of rail through New York. Clement, 1935-1949. 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. I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license: (SVG file, nominally 800 600 pixels, file size: 447 KB), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:JimIrwin, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Lehigh_Valley_Railroad_System_Map.svg&oldid=460606778, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. 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. ft.), Johnsonburg 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. Order #20 of ICC, 1916-1921. The LVRR began construction of a series of railroads to connect the Easton and Amboy line (Easton and Amboy Railroad) to Jersey City. (.1 cu. ft.), PRR / Comptroller / Cash Books for the Trust Created for Purchase of Securities, 1878-1939. ft.), Pittsburgh and Lake Erie / Railroad Annual Reports, 1967, 1969, 1972-1974, 1976-1977. DeRuyter Val Map - info needed by Cactus Jack - Tue Aug 25, 2015 2:08 pm. ft.), PRR / VP of Operation / Chief of Motive Power / Lines East Age Books (MP 308), ca 1900-1917. Budd Rail Diesel Car service would continue on a branch line (Lehighton-Hazleton) for an additional four days. [18] For most of its length, it ran parallel to the LVRR. [2] It was sometimes known as the Route of the Black Diamond, named after the anthracite it transported. Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. 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. (.4 cu. ft.), West Lane Garage Company / Minute Book, 1934-1943. [14], The 1870s witnessed commencement of extension of the LVRR in a new direction. (.02 cu. 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. Please note: There also exists an unprocessed series of PRR/Penn Central maps entitled: Architectural Drawings and Maps, ca 1818-1970 (1883-1965). ft.), Enola Realty Company / Journals, 1905-1932. ft.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / Valuable Papers Files, 1850-1966. (.0 cu. File usage on Commons. permission to lay track, run trains and do needed maintenance along a long, narrow swath. 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. 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. File. 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. Customers naturally resented the actions of the cartel, and since coal was critical to commerce, Congress intervened in 1887 with the Interstate Commerce Act that forbade the roads from joining into such pools. The line makes notable connections with other Norfolk Southern lines such as the Reading Line and independent shortline railroads. The first such combination occurred in 1873, followed by others in 1878, 1884, and 1886. (.55 cu. ft.), Manor Real Estate and Trust Company / Stock Transfer Book, 1889-1931. [38] Through bonds issued by the D&H, he obtained 30% of the LVRR stock, and won the support of nearly half the stockholders. ft.), Susquehanna, Bloomsburg, and Berwick Railroad / Minute Book, 1902-1918. of Purchases / General Correspondence and Confidential Files of C.D. 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. [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. ft.), PRR / Secretary / One Hundredth Anniversary Historical Files, ca 1876-1946. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Guide for the PRR with Extensive Map Including the Entire Route, 1855. ft.), Northern Central Railway / Committee Minute Book, 1875-1914. Fortunately, grain tonnage was increasing and the company transported large quantities from Buffalo to Philadelphia and other Eastern markets. ft.), Manor Real Estate and Trust Company / Ledgers, 1903-1925. ft.), Pioneer Real Estate Company / Minute Book, 1946-1947. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Printed Abstracts of Title, 1869, 1875. ft.), Northern Central Railroad / Mortgage of the Northern Central Railway to Wistar Morris and Josiah Bacon, Trustees, 1868. Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission, Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps forPennsylvania, Aerial Photographs and Index of the 1940 Aerial Survey of Pennsylvania, 1937-1942. (.1 cu. (.01 cu. Top of page Skip to main content plaindealing From shop plaindealing. In 1883, Hartshorne retired to allow Harry E. Packer, Asa's 32-year-old youngest son, to assume the Presidency. (.2 cu. (.16 cu. Maps of North America. 1835-1925]. (.05 cu. These maps, bridge and structure drawings remains unprocessed. (.02 cu. ft.), Enola Realty Company / Property Sales Accounts, 1905-1914. In 1866, two years after the purchase of the Penn Haven and White Haven, the extension from White Haven to Wilkes-Barre opened.[1]. 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. 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. 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. (11 cu. [8] The purchasing of the North Branch Canal saw an opportunity for a near monopoly in the region north of the Wyoming Valley. The LVRR first attempted to obtain a right of way at Greenville, but the Pennsylvania Railroad checkmated them by purchasing most of the properties needed. (1 cu. Leadership of the company transferred smoothly to Charles Hartshorne, who had been vice president under Packer. ft.), PRR / President / Presidential Correspondence of A.J. 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. The section between Allentown and Mauch Chunk opened on September 12. railroad archivist. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Board Files: Green Sheet Leases, 1926-1957. ft.), PRR / VP of Special Services / Water Company Files, 1905-1956. (1 cu. Approximately 350,000 tons of anthracite moved to Perth Amboy during that year for transshipment by water. (3 cu. [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. The building shutdown in 1961 and was demolished. (.3 cu. For land and trackage owned by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, the State Archives holds a series of 49 microfilm rolls, filmed in 1976 by the Penn Central, entitled: Real Estate Maps and Atlases (#RRV 1101 through 1148) {#286m.423} . 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]. (.1 cu. and Executive Comm., 1853-1906. ft.), Penn Central Corp. / General Correspondence Files, 1955-1976. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Information Books, ca 1926-1954. 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. File usage on other wikis. (4 cu. The South Basin terminal was used solely for freight, having docks and car float facilities. 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 line became known as the Lehigh Line during Conrail ownership. (1.5 cu. 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 . The Lehigh Line still exists and still serves as a major freight railroad line that operates in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. 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. [10] The LVRR recognized that its own continued prosperity depended on obtaining what coal lands remained. Parts. 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. ft.), PRR / VP of Special Services / Merger Testimony and Exhibits, 1962-1967. Following Federal legislation which stopped the operation of such service, the lake line was sold to private interests in 1920. By controlling supply, the coal combination attempted to keep prices and profits high. ft.), PRR / VP of Eastern Region / Locality Files, 1918-1936. At the time, anthracite was transported by boat down the Lehigh River. (.05 cu. (.4 cu. (.02 cu. ft.), Girard Point Storage / Record of Deeds, 1881-1896. 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. 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. (13 cu. ft.), Susquehanna Coal Company / Leases, 1883-1939. (.1 cu. ft.), PRR / President / Presidential Correspondence of Samuel Rea, 1913-1925. (.1 cu. The railroad was chartered on August 2, 1847, and elected James Madison Porter its president on October 21. 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. (.2 cu. V2 en:Roselle and South Plainfield Railway. 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. ft.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / Statements of Additions and Betterments (GA-8), 1918-1929, 1931-1932. In some cases (yards, stations, repair facilities, etc.) 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. (.1 cu. ft.), Clearfield and Jefferson Railway / Annual Reports, 1886-1888. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Annual Reports of Water Companies, 1914. 1850-1967] (157 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. (.11 cu. (.25 cu. (3 cu. (.2 cu. Lehigh Valley Railroad System Map.svg. Although the heavy wartime traffic had left the railroad's plant and equipment in need of repair, the damage was partly offset by new equipment that had been purchased by the government. James Madison Porter was the first President of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. The economic depression following 1893 was harsh, and by 1897 the LVRR was in dire need of support. In 1883 the railroad acquired land in northeast Pennsylvania and formed a subsidiary called The Glen Summit Hotel and Land Company. [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. Size of this PNG preview of this SVG file: Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents. (92 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. (.1 cu. Conrail abandoned most of the route in New York State to Buffalo after 1976, considerably shortening the line. To reach Wilkes-Barre, the LVRR began constructing an extension from White Haven, Pennsylvania, to Wilkes-Barre. ft.), Frederick and Northern Railroad / Minute Book, 1873-1897. 1902 - NYC introduces The 20th Century Limited. 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. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Reports on Coal and Coal Mines, 1861-1864. The hotel remained with the company until 1909, when it was bought by residents of the surrounding cottages. The LVRR operated several named trains in the post-World War II era. The 1860s saw an expansion of the LVRR northward to the Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, area and up the Susquehanna River to the New York state line. ft.), Northern Central Railroad / Committee Minute Book, 1875-1914. (.01 cu. Wilson, Chief Engineer, 1881-1884. . Originally incorporated as the Delaware, Lehigh, Schuylkill and Susquehanna Railroad Company. The line is still owned and operated by the Norfolk Southern Railway and the line still runs from Port Reading Junction in Manville, New Jersey, to Penn Haven Junction in Lehigh Township, Carbon County, Pennsylvania.[52]. (.2 cu. (29 cu. In 1896 the very early film Black Diamond Express was produced by Thomas A. Edison's company Kinetoscope. ft.), Chambersburg Land and Improvement Company / Minute Book, 1890-1905. And the County Tax Assessment Office would have current information as to ownership of each geographic parcel if that is in question. ft.), PRR / President / Clement / Eastern Region Coordinating Committee Files, 1933-1936. [45], In 1944, the LVRR's gross revenues came close to $100,000,000 which was a milestone for the railroad.[1].
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