ft.), PRR / VP of Operation / Chief of Motive Power / Miscellaneous Motive Power Blueprints and Related Materials, ca 1900-1968. Bankruptcy trustee July 1970August 1974. [30] As a result of its leases and acquisitions, the Lehigh Valley gained a near-monopoly on traffic in the Finger Lakes region. 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). The South Basin terminal was used solely for freight, having docks and car float facilities. Conrail maintained the line as a main line into the New York City area. The original maps were never transferred to the Archives, but a book by book inventory of the film exists. (.03 cu. (.21 cu. [2] It was sometimes known as the Route of the Black Diamond, named after the anthracite it transported. (.1 cu. (.25 cu. (11.9 cu. [4] All this changed in October 1851, when Asa Packer took majority control of the DLS&S. (.1 cu. ft.), PRR / V.P. ft.), Erie Railroad / Tax Registers, 1891-1915. (.03 cu. 1948: ALCO PA passenger diesels replace steam on all passenger runs. Packer brought additional financing to the railroad, installed Robert H. Sayre as chief engineer, and renamed the company the "Lehigh Valley Railroad." [16] After the LVRR opened its line, the Lehigh & Susquehanna extended to Phillipsburg, New Jersey, and connected with the CNJ and the Morris and Essex Railroad in 1868. 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. 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. ft.), Wilcox Railroad Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. Creator: Lehigh Valley Railroad Company Quanitities: 6 cubic feet. Since 1896 the LVRR had run an important and prestigious express train named the "Black Diamond" which carried passengers to the Finger Lakes and Buffalo. ft.), Philadelphia and Erie Railroad / Record of Track Material Loaned for Construction of Lumber Branches, 1895-1906. 1951: September 14: Last day of steam on the Lehigh Valley Railroad as. Lehigh Valley Railroad Station was a beautiful building that dated back to 1890. Some of the lines and branches covered in the series'twenty-four boxes include: For maps of the routes and land holdings of the Lehigh and New England Railroad, the series The acquisitions in 1868 were notable because they marked the beginning of the LVRR's strategy of acquiring coal lands to ensure production and traffic for its own lines. President Richard Nixon signed the Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973 into law. 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. 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. Lehigh Valley Railroad System Map.svg. Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Collection Number: 3362 Abstract: Financial records, reports, schedules, blueprints, and other records of railway lines in central and western New York State. (1 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. In 1941, the Pennsylvania placed its shares in a voting trust after reaching an agreement with the New York Central regarding the PRR's purchase of the Wabash. (.4 cu. [1] 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} . Also, in 1914 the Panama Canal was completed, and the LVRR gained an important new market with ores shipped from South America to the Bethlehem Steel company. Approximately 350,000 tons of anthracite moved to Perth Amboy during that year for transshipment by water. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Rules and Regulations, 1858-1925. Cassatt and James McCrea, ca 1899-1913. ft.) {#286m.254}. Throughout that decade, expansions continued into New York by taking over smaller lines and building new railroad. ft.), Susquehanna Coal Company / Leases, 1883-1939. Most serviceable equipment not retained for company service was sold to other roads. [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. 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.), PRR / Secretary / Record of Transportation Lines, 1877-1959. 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. (.1 cu. {#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. (.02 cu. (.10 cu. In 1866, Master Mechanic Alexander Mitchell designed the "Consolidation", 1945: The first Lehigh Valley Railroad mainline diesels arrive in the form of. 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 . The section between Allentown and Mauch Chunk opened on September 12. (.1 cu. (.05 cu. Conrail abandoned most of the route in New York State to Buffalo after 1976, considerably shortening the line. (.55 cu. ft.), PRR / President / Clement / Eastern Region Coordinating Committee Files, 1933-1936. File. (.16 cu. The first leg of the construction to Jersey City was the Roselle and South Plainfield Railway in 1888 which connected with the CNJ at Roselle for access over the CNJ to the Hudson River waterfront in Jersey City. 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. Size of this PNG preview of this SVG file: 800 600 pixels. 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. (.1 cu. At Phillipsburg, New Jersey, the Belvidere Delaware Railroad connected to Trenton, New Jersey. Additional passenger trains ran from Philadelphia to Scranton and westward. | Library of Congress Outline map of the middle Atlantic states showing the three major lines in different colors. 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. :-)). 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 . (.5 cu. (17 cu. In order to document their corporate valuations to the ICC, American railroad companies had to submit detailed maps of their real estate holdings. The LVRR decided to expand more to the Northeastern New Jersey in order to reach its freight yards without using the CNJ main line. Canal, 1901. 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! ft.), Chambersburg Land and Improvement Company / Minute Book, 1890-1905. 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. (.02 cu. (1.5 cu. ft.), Frederick and Northern Railroad / Minute Book, 1873-1897. (2 cu. [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]. (.02 cu. [1][19][bettersourceneeded][20]. 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. [39], Following the defeat of its plan, the D&H sold its stock to the Pennsylvania Railroad. Countries. On June 21, 1970, the Penn Central declared bankruptcy and sought bankruptcy protection. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Board Files: BFA Series, ca 1905-1960. 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. 5 out of 5 stars (5,213) $ 19.50 FREE shipping Add to Favorites . ft.), PRR / Secretary / One Hundredth Anniversary Historical Files, ca 1876-1946. ft.), Berkshire Land Company / Cash Book, 1945-1953. 1 en:Hoboken Manufacturers' Railroad; 2 en:Bay Shore Connecting Railroad; 3 en:Whippany River Railroad and Executive Comm., 1853-1906. of Law / Miscellaneous Interstate Commerce Commission Case Files, 1927-1935. The Lehigh Valley Railroad was another of the many Northeastern carriers built to move anthracite coal from eastern Pennsylvania. (1.3 cu. (152 cu. Winning bid: US $15.00. ft.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / Statements of Additions and Betterments (GA-8), 1918-1929, 1931-1932. (1.25 cu. ft.), PRR / Secretary / General Correspondence Files, ca 1887-1972. ft.), Cherry Tree and Dixonville Railroad / Minute Books, 1903-1943. (.53 cu. (29 cu. At the end of that time period, the use rights would have to be re-negotiated, or full use and control would revert to the current property owner. (.15 cu. The tracks from Dupont to Mehoopany became a new rail line called the Susquehanna Branch. These maps, bridge and structure drawings remains unprocessed. (.25 cu. [45], In 1944, the LVRR's gross revenues came close to $100,000,000 which was a milestone for the railroad.[1]. ft.), Susquehanna, Bloomsburg, and Berwick Railroad / Minute Book, 1902-1918. The 23 miles between Mauch Chunk and White Haven through the Lehigh Gorge, now the D&L Trail, was opened in 1864. However, for historical purposes, the part from Manville to Newark is considered a new rail line and the Norfolk Southern part is considered the original line. The building shutdown in 1961 and was demolished. 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. 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 owners still owned the property, but the railroad was allowed to conduct agreed-upon activities on the swath in question. The Vosburg Tunnel was completed and opened for service on July 25, 1886. ft.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / Property Schedules, (BV 634, 635 and 636), 1936-1941. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Post Office Files, 1923-1933. . (.15 cu. At Easton, the LVRR constructed a double-decked bridge across the Delaware River for connections to the CNJ and the Belvidere Delaware Railroad in Phillipsburg. Pennsylvania. In 1870, the Lehigh Valley Railroad acquired trackage rights to Auburn, New York, on the Southern Central Railroad.[1]. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Lease and Agreement Book, 1858-1889. (92 cu. Annual Report of the State Board of Assessors of the State of New Jersey, News Printing Co., 1889, p.85. James Madison Porter was the first President of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. (1 cu. (13 cu. 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. 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. In 1916, a horrendous explosion occurred at the facility, destroying ships and buildings, and breaking windows in Manhattan. (5 cu. (.0 cu. [1] Operations continued until the LVRR's bankruptcy in 1976. ft.), Erie-Lackawanna Railway / General Correspondence Files, 1953-1967, Erie Railroad / Land Record Books,[ ca 1831-1915]. System Map (1940) An official, 1940 system map of the Lehigh & New England Railroad. [26] The railroad had survived the economic depression of 1873 and was seeing its business recover. ft.), Enola Realty Company / Property Sales Accounts, 1905-1914. Right-of-way agreements might be attached to or referenced in the chain of title (i.e. ft.), Philadelphia and Erie Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. 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 Chandler Acts of 1938-9 provided a new form of relief for railroads, allowing them to restructure their debt while continuing to operate. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / General Correspondence Files and Coal Mine Reports, 1930-1938. 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. 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. ft.), Bell's Gap Railroad / Annual Reports, 1873-1889. The Lehigh Line still exists and still serves as a major freight railroad line that operates in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. 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.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / General Correspondence Files of the St. Lawrence Power Project, 1948-1954. (5 cu. ft.), Franklin Railroad Company / Minute Books, 1836-1853, 1859-1865. (1.1 cu. (.03 cu. The line became known as the Lehigh Line during Conrail ownership. Wilson, Chief Engineer, 1881-1884. Lehigh Valley Railroad; Discussion related to the Lehigh Valley Railroad and predecessors for the period 1846-1976. Free shipping for many products! ft.), PRR / V.P. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Letter Press Books of J.C. Wilson, Assistant Chief Engineer and Real Estate Agent, 1876-1889. The San Jos to Merced project section of the California high-speed rail system will provide a critical rail link between Silicon Valley and the Central Valley. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Board Files: Wire and Pipe Crossing Agreements, 1925-1957. The Pennsylvania Railroad in 1962 requested ICC authorization to acquire complete control of the LVRR through a swap of PRR stock for LVRR and elimination of the voting trust that had been in place since 1941. The first such combination occurred in 1873, followed by others in 1878, 1884, and 1886. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Reports on Coal and Coal Mines, 1861-1864. In the war years 1914 to 1918, the Lehigh handled war materials and explosives at its Black Tom island facility, which had been obtained along with the National Docks Railroad in 1900. ft.). (5.6 cu. 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. (5 cu. Newly elected president Eben B. Thomas, formerly of the Erie, and his board of directors represented the combined interests of those railroads.[36]. of F. Thomson and A.J. . permission to lay track, run trains and do needed maintenance along a long, narrow swath. 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. 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. (3 cu. 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. ft.), North Penn Coal Company / Minute Book, 1913-1938. At first the incident was considered an accident; a long investigation eventually concluded that the explosion was an act of German sabotage, for which reparations were finally paid in 1979. The 1890s were a period of turmoil for the LVRR. Additionally, a segment from Geneva to Victor, New York, later cut back to Shortsville, New York, to Victor, remained with the Lehigh Valley Estate under subsidized Conrail operation. (.4 cu. (.1 cu. 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. 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. 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.), Suquehanna, Bloomsburg, and Berwick Railroad - Ledger, 1902-1904. (2 cu. ft.), Manor Real Estate and Trust Company / Property Ledger, 1886-1916. 1902 - NYC introduces The 20th Century Limited. 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. (bridge still exists today. 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. 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. what is distribution coefficient in solvent extraction, josh conklin wofford salary,