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. (3 cu. From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. ft.), Nescopec Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. 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. Train Cars and Work Equip. Bridging Newark Bay proved difficult. [1] (.16 cu. (1.25 cu. President Richard Nixon signed the Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973 into law. Summary Outline map of the middle Atlantic states showing the three major lines in different colors. ft.), PRR / President / Subject Index to Presidential Corr. Across the river in Easton, Pennsylvania, the line interchanges with its Pennsylvania side branch line, the Portland Secondary, which extends from Easton to Portland, Pennsylvania, connecting to the Stroudsburg Secondary, which was originally part of the Lackawanna Old Road (or simply Old Road); the Stroudsburg Secondary goes under the Lackawanna Cut-Off and connects with the Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad. (.1 cu. w/ Val. (.01 cu. ft.), Penn Central Corp. / General Correspondence Files, 1955-1976. Order #20 of ICC, 1916-1921. ft.), PRR / VP of Operation / Chief of Motive Power / Miscellaneous Motive Power Blueprints and Related Materials, ca 1900-1968. ft.), PRR / VP Central Region / Blueprint Track Chart of Branch Lines, 1938. ft.), PRR / V.P. (.1 cu. 93-236, 87 Stat. Finally, in 1889, the LVRR gained control of the Geneva, Ithaca, and Sayre Railroad and completed its line of rail through New York. Approximately 350,000 tons of anthracite moved to Perth Amboy during that year for transshipment by water. 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. (.1 cu. (.4 cu. ft.), Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad / Contract Books, 1864-1891. [17] In 1871, the entire line from Phillipsburg to Wilkes-Barre was leased to the CNJ. (6.5 cu. Lehigh Valley Railroad; Discussion related to the Lehigh Valley Railroad and predecessors for the period 1846-1976. ft.), PRR / Comptroller / Cash Books for the Trust Created for Purchase of Securities, 1878-1939. Now under ownership of the Norfolk Southern Railway, the Lehigh Line's route is now from Port Reading Junction in Manville, New Jersey, to Penn Haven Junction in Lehigh Township, Pennsylvania. (1 cu. 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 . (.15 cu. The majority of passenger equipment is believed to have been scrapped some time after February 1961. The Maple Leaf and the John Wilkes were the last operating long-distance trains, terminated that day. [1][19][bettersourceneeded][20]. (.25 cu. ft.), Downingtown and Lancaster Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. are Interested, 1962. 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. (.1 cu. Lehigh Valley Railroad Station was a beautiful building that dated back to 1890. ft.), Bell's Gap Railroad / Annual Reports, 1873-1889. The Lehigh Valley Railroad remained in operation during the 1970 bankruptcy, as was the common practice of the time. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Histories of Various Companies, ca 1934-1965. (.2 cu. 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 Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973, Pub.L. of F. Thomson and A.J. The Lehigh Valley Railroad was another of the many Northeastern carriers built to move anthracite coal from eastern Pennsylvania. 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. ft.) {#286m.254}. (.11 cu. ft.), Wilcox Railroad Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. The images on the film are arranged geographically, i.e. The followingarethe primary series of railroad map records that are processed and readily available for use: For track maps of the Erie and D, L & W lines,seeTrack Maps of the Erie Railroad and the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, circa 1917-1976, Series {#300m164}. The new line is also served by Norfolk Southern Railway, but it is served together with CSX Transportation in a joint ownership company called Conrail Shared Assets Operations. Congress reacted with the 1906 Hepburn Act, which among other things forbade railroads from owning the commodities that they transported. (.3 cu. ft.), Shamokin Valley and Pottsville Railroad / Acts of Assembly Relating to the Shamokin Valley and Pottsville Railroad, 1858. 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. Please enable scripts and reload this page. By 1869, the LVRR owned a continuous track through Pennsylvania from Easton to Waverly. Passengers were routed to the Pennsylvania Railroad's terminal and ferry. 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. (.55 cu. Another series relating to PRR real estate holdings, rights of way and agreements is the Valuable Papers File, [ca. [1], On May 17, 1879, Asa Packer, the company's founder and leader, died at the age of 73. ft.), Pittsburgh and Lake Erie / Railroad Annual Reports, 1967, 1969, 1972-1974, 1976-1977. [39], Following the defeat of its plan, the D&H sold its stock to the Pennsylvania Railroad. By 1859 it had 600 coal cars and 19 engines. The Easton and Amboy was used as a connection to the New York metropolitan area, with a terminus in Jersey City, New Jersey. It also built a passenger terminal in Buffalo in 1915. (3 cu. (.2 cu. Countries. 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. The Association of American Railroads, which opposed nationalization, submitted an alternate proposal for a government-funded private company. (.2 cu. Bankruptcy trustee July 1970August 1974. ft.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / Valuable Papers Files, 1850-1966. Bankruptcy trustee from August 1974 to April 1976. 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. It opened a hotel in Glen Summit, Pennsylvania, called the Glen Summit Hotel to serve lunch to passengers traveling on the line. (152 cu. (.15 cu. The line became known as the Lehigh Line during Conrail ownership. Some lines were subsequently abandoned and even dismantled long before the expiration date came up. 1905 - Hojack swing bridge built at Charlotte. (.1 cu. (.1 cu. The railroad then set its sights northward. (9 cu. [18] For most of its length, it ran parallel to the LVRR. - Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway . The 1890s were a period of turmoil for the LVRR. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Reports on Coal and Coal Mines, 1861-1864. 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. (.01 cu. Right-of-way agreements might be attached to or referenced in the chain of title (i.e. 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. [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]. Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co. 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. Please note: There also exists an unprocessed series of PRR/Penn Central maps entitled: Architectural Drawings and Maps, ca 1818-1970 (1883-1965). ft.), Northern Central Railway / Committee Minute Book, 1875-1914. ft.), Western Pennsylvania Railroad / Minute Books, 1860-1903. Coverage includes locations in the states of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York. (1.5 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. Lehigh Gorge Trains are located at 1 Susquehanna Street, Jim Thorpe, PA 18229 #570-325-8485 . DeRuyter Val Map - info needed by Cactus Jack - Tue Aug 25, 2015 2:08 pm. These were FAs with steam generators, but they were not designated as FPA-2 units. This microfilm, such as it is, is our best and most comprehensive source of PRR maps at this time. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Pennsylvania Railroad and Long Island RR Directors' Inspection Trip Book, 1947. VDOMDHTMLtml> Map of the Pennsylvania, Reading, and Lehigh Valley Railroads, and their connections. Passenger traffic on the LVRR's Easton and Amboy connected with the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) at Metuchen, New Jersey, and continued to the PRR'S Exchange Place terminus in Jersey City (that connection was discontinued in 1891 after the LVRR established its own route to Jersey City from South Plainfield). ft.), Susquehanna Coal Company / Leases, 1883-1939. (.25 cu. By 1931, the PRR controlled 51% of the LVRR stock. ft.), Pennsylvania and North Western Railroad / Annual Reports, 1890-1901. . (.02 cu. 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. 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. 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. Finally in 1887 the two railroads reached a settlement, and construction of the LVRR's Jersey City freight yard began. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Corporate Histories Prepared in Accord. (.12 cu. (35 cu. The existing tracks from Manville to Newark became a new rail line and Norfolk Southern along with CSX own it under a joint venture. ft.), Pennsylvania and Midland Railroad / Court Proceedings, 1895-1899. (.25 cu. On June 21, 1970, the Penn Central declared bankruptcy and sought bankruptcy protection. (.05 cu. Most of the other remaining Lehigh Valley track serves as branch lines, or has been sold to shortline and regional operators. File. 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. (.5 cu. These engineering drawings consist primarily of maps and structure drawings, although other subjects such as bridges, grade crossings and equipments are also documented. (.1 cu. (2 cu. (.02 cu. ft.), Williamsport and Elmira Railroad / Annual Reports, 1856-1858. (.1 cu. Digitized content from the collections of Cornell University Library 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. 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 . 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. For more and perhaps more easily obtainable maps and aerial photographs, you may also want to consult the following sources: Tracings and blueprints for buildings, bridges, and track routes of the Land and Tax Department for the Wyoming, Jersey City and Buffalo Divisions of the Lehigh Valley Railroad are included in Series {#274m.568}, Track and Structures Drawings, 1870-1976. 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 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. The lists were constructed by doing word searches of the narrative series descriptions for the designated words: maps, tracks and real estate. Records vary as to scope and nature, including pipe and wire, trackage and crossing rights, real estate, physical facilities, financial obligations, operations with affiliated companies, governmental authorizations, purchases, and so forth. [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.), PRR / President / Presidential Correspondence of W.W. Atterbury, 1925-1935. 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. 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 United States Railroad Administration controlled the railroad from 1918 to 1920, at which time control was transferred back to the private companies. 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! (.3 cu. (5 cu. ft.), PRR / VP of Special Services / Merger Studies, 1950-1970. In 1891, the LVRR consolidated the Roselle and South Plainfield Railway into the Lehigh Valley Terminal Railway, along with the other companies which formed the route from South Plainfield to the Jersey City terminal. ft.), PRR / VP of Finance / Treasurer / Treasurer's Cash Books, 1847-1863, 1865-1925. (1.1 cu. (4 cu. 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. ft.), PRR / VP of Operation / Chief of Motive Power / Letter Books, 1926. [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. 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. (2.25 cu. (.1 cu. ft.), Susquehanna, Bloomsburg, and Berwick Railroad / Minute Book, 1902-1918. Cassat, 1893-1903. ft.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / List of Roadway Completion Reports (BV 586), 1919-1927. ft.), Susquehanna and Clearfield Railroad / Annual Report to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. (.0 cu. (2 cu. 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. 1850-1967] (157 cu. 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"). [citation needed]. Due to declining passenger patronage, the Lehigh Valley successfully petitioned the Interstate Commerce Commission to terminate all passenger service. (.4 cu. ft.), Valley Real Estate Company / Cash Book, 1907-1922. 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! [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. Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. 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. That southern field held the largest reserves of anthracite in Pennsylvania and accounted for a large percentage of the total production. ft.), Kensington and Tacony Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. (.4 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. | Library of Congress Outline map of the middle Atlantic states showing the three major lines in different colors. Map of the Abandoned Rails of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. At Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, the North Pennsylvania Railroad which was completed during the Summer of 1856, provided a rail connection to Philadelphia and thus brought the LVRR a direct line to Philadelphia. ft.), Enola Realty Company / Property Sales Accounts, 1905-1914. (.03 cu. :-)). (11 cu. (.5 cu. 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. [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. Photograph by Donald W. Furler, Furler-12-021-01 . In 1875, the LVRR financed the addition of a third rail to the Erie Railroad main line so that cars could roll directly from colliery to the port at Buffalo. {#31.18}, MG-416 Aero Service Corporation Photographs, MG-425 Ebasco Environmental Company Aerial Photographs, Baldwin Locomotive Works, Other Record Holders, PHMC Collections Management Policy Standards, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Access Policy, Erie Railroad and the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, Bangor & Portland Division, including Martins Creek Branch, Limestone Spur, Wind Gap Branch, Atlantic BranchandBangor Branch, Valuation orders and related records, 1914-1934. Abandoned Rails of the Lehigh Valley Railroad LV. 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. 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. (.15 cu. On April 1, 1976, major portions of the assets of the bankrupt Lehigh Valley Railroad were acquired by Conrail. 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. Lehigh Valley Railroad Tracings and blueprints for buildings, bridges, and track routes of the Land and Tax Department for the Wyoming, Jersey City and Buffalo Divisions of the Lehigh Valley Railroad are included in Series {#274m.568}, Track and Structures Drawings, 1870-1976 . ft.), PRR / VP of Purchase / General Correspondence and Confidential Files of C.D. ft.), North Penn Coal Company / Minute Book, 1913-1938. The production of the entire Middle Coal Field came to the LVRR over feeders to the Beaver Meadow: the Quakake Railroad, the Catawissa, Williamsport and Erie Railroad, the Hazleton Railroad, the Lehigh Luzerne Railroad and other smaller lines. (.1 cu. 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. 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. Parts. [1], Further rounds of acquisitions took place in 1868. (.1 cu. ft.), West Lane Garage Company / Minute Book, 1934-1943. Conrail maintained the line as a main line into the New York City area. 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.), Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad / Agreements, Leases and Mortgage, 1847-1886. Finally in 1900, the LVRR purchased the National Docks Railway outright. United States (except New York) States. The restructuring allowed the LVRR to extend the maturity of its mortgages, but it needed to repeat the process in 1950. and Executive Comm., 1853-1906. the succession of recorded deeds). [24] The marshalling yard is now the residential area known as Harbortown. Canal, 1901. ft.), Manor Real Estate and Trust Company / Journals, 1903-1925. (10 cu. The South Basin terminal was used solely for freight, having docks and car float facilities. 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]. 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. Lehigh Valley Railroad System Map.svg. At Three Bridges, New Jersey, in Readington Township, the line interchanges with Black River and Western Railroad. (.1 cu. ft.), Enola Realty Company / Minute Books, 1905-1931. ft.), which was maintained by the Secretary's office. ft.), Valley Real Estate Company / Journal Entries, 1919. (.3 cu. 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. (.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. ft.), PRR / President / Clement / Eastern Region Coordinating Committee Files, 1933-1936. (.1 cu. Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway | Train Rides in Jim Thorpe, PA Visit RBMNRR-passenger.com to see train trips originating from our other locations. Ousting President Elisha P. Wilbur and several directors in 1897, the Morgan company installed W. Alfred Walter as president and seated its own directors. In 1883, Hartshorne retired to allow Harry E. Packer, Asa's 32-year-old youngest son, to assume the Presidency. ft.), Pioneer Real Estate Company / Minute Book, 1946-1947. (.1 cu. ft.), Pittsburgh, Chartiers and Yougheogheny Railway / Annual Reports, 1892-1910. (.03 cu. Other RBMN Train Rides . Dates / Origin Date Issued: 1887 Place: Philadelphia? (.1 cu. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Annual Reports of Water Companies, 1914. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Lease and Agreement Book, 1858-1889. (.05 cu. [30] As a result of its leases and acquisitions, the Lehigh Valley gained a near-monopoly on traffic in the Finger Lakes region. File history. 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. ft.), Riverfront Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. ft.), Ridgeway and Clearfield Railroad / Minute Book, 1882-1911. (.1 cu. (297 cu. ft.), Philadelphia and Erie Railroad / Report to the Superintendant of the Tenth Census, 1880. In New Jersey, the LVRR embarked on a decade-long legal battle with the CNJ over terminal facilities in Jersey City. Size of this PNG preview of this SVG file: Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents. ft.), Philadelphia and Erie Railroad / Record of Track Material Loaned for Construction of Lumber Branches, 1895-1906. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Information Books, ca 1926-1954. 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 original line retains its original route when it was first constructed and is served by Norfolk Southern Railway. The "T" intersection is also visible on the map where the trains would turn into the depot at the village of Hemlock. (.1 cu. Pennsylvania. 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.
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