ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Reports on Coal and Coal Mines, 1861-1864. (92 cu. :-)). At the time, anthracite was transported by boat down the Lehigh River. [13] With these acquisitions, the LVRR obtained the right to mine coal as well as transport it. 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. ft.), Ridgeway and Clearfield Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. You may be trying to access this site from a secured browser on the server. [53] The only daylight New York-Buffalo train, the "Black Diamond", was discontinued in 1959. ft.), Valley Real Estate Company - Ledger, 1907-1922. (.03 cu. 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. Language: At the time of his death, the railroad was shipping 4.4 million tons of coal annually over 657 miles (1,057km) of track, using 235 engines, 24,461 coal cars, and over 2,000 freight cars of various kinds. [45], In 1944, the LVRR's gross revenues came close to $100,000,000 which was a milestone for the railroad.[1]. . Finally, in 1889, the LVRR gained control of the Geneva, Ithaca, and Sayre Railroad and completed its line of rail through New York. (.21 cu. In addition, we now hold a physical volume entitled Real Estate Atlas of the Western Pennsylvania Railroad, Butler Division, [ca. 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. Ball, Chief Conveyancer and Benjamin W. Carskaddon, Assistant Real Estate Agent, 1876-1902. Original file (SVG file, nominally 800 600 pixels, file size: 447 KB). (1.5 cu. The LVRR began construction of a series of railroads to connect the Easton and Amboy line (Easton and Amboy Railroad) to Jersey City. By the 1960s, railroads in the East were struggling to survive. (.3 cu. It passes through the approximately 5,000-foot Pattenburg Tunnel in West Portal, New Jersey, along its route. James Madison Porter was the first President of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. (5 cu. of F. Thomson and A.J. ft.), Harrisburg, Portsmouth, Mt. 1850-1967] (157 cu. The "T" intersection is also visible on the map where the trains would turn into the depot at the village of Hemlock. ft.), Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad / Agreements, Leases and Mortgage, 1847-1886. The Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad is a defunct railroad that operated in eastern Pennsylvania during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Young, 1929-1943. In the following years, the Pennsylvania quietly obtained more stock, both directly and through railroads it controlled, primarily the Wabash. (1.25 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. (3 cu. [3], Little occurred between 1847 and 1851, save some limited grading near Allentown, Pennsylvania. Abandoned Rails of the Lehigh Valley Railroad LV. ft.), Northern Central Railroad / Mortgage of the Northern Central Railway to Wistar Morris and Josiah Bacon, Trustees, 1868. (.12 cu. ft.), PRR / President / Presidential Correspondence of Samuel Rea, 1913-1925. (6.5 cu. - Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway . Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway | Train Rides in Jim Thorpe, PA Visit RBMNRR-passenger.com to see train trips originating from our other locations. Map of the Abandoned Rails of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. [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. (1 cu. In 1916, a horrendous explosion occurred at the facility, destroying ships and buildings, and breaking windows in Manhattan. 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. 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. N Scale Lehigh Valley locomotive by Life-Like. 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; Discussion related to the Lehigh Valley Railroad and predecessors for the period 1846-1976. Fortunately, grain tonnage was increasing and the company transported large quantities from Buffalo to Philadelphia and other Eastern markets. ft.), Philadelphia and Erie Railroad / Report to the Superintendant of the Tenth Census, 1880. ft.), Pioneer Real Estate Company / Minute Book, 1946-1947. And the County Tax Assessment Office would have current information as to ownership of each geographic parcel if that is in question. Joy and Lancaster Railroad / Minute Book of the Committee on Real Estate and the Road, 1850-1855. (.02 cu. The line is part of Norfolk Southern's Harrisburg Division and it is part of Norfolk Southern's Crescent Corridor, a railroad corridor. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Library / Library Reference Materials, ca 1834-1963. (1 cu. ft.), PRR / VP of Operation / Chief of Motive Power / Condition of Frt. Passengers were routed to the Pennsylvania Railroad's terminal and ferry. (.25 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). [citation needed]. ft.), PRR / President / Presidential Correspondence of W.W. Atterbury, 1925-1935. 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. (.1 cu. Budd Rail Diesel Car service would continue on a branch line (Lehighton-Hazleton) for an additional four days. ft.), Clearfield and Jefferson Railway / Annual Reports, 1886-1888. VDOMDHTMLtml> Map of the Pennsylvania, Reading, and Lehigh Valley Railroads, and their connections. The Easton and Amboy's operations were labeled the "New Jersey Division" of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. 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. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Board Files: Green Sheet Leases, 1926-1957. 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. ft.), Nescopec Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. 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. (.1 cu. (.02 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.), Ridgeway and Clearfield Railroad / Minute Book, 1882-1911. [1][19][bettersourceneeded][20]. Small party privacy and fantastic views! 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. ft.). 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. In 1896 the very early film Black Diamond Express was produced by Thomas A. Edison's company Kinetoscope. ft.), Valley Real Estate Company / Cash Book, 1907-1922. (.03 cu. Wilson, Chief Engineer, 1881-1884. In order to document their corporate valuations to the ICC, American railroad companies had to submit detailed maps of their real estate holdings. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Pennsylvania Railroad and Long Island RR Directors' Inspection Trip Book, 1947. (1 cu. The two roads had entered a shared trackage agreement in this area in 1965 to reduce costs, as both had parallel routes from Wilkes-Barre virtually all the way to metropolitan New York, often on adjoining grades through Pennsylvania. {#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. [1] In the 1870s the LVRR acquired other large tracts of land starting at 13,000 acres (53km2) in 1870,[9] with an additional of 5,800 acres (23km2) in 1872,[12] and turned its eye toward expansion across New Jersey all the way to the New York City area. Paper or digital copies of the items on the list can then be ordered. 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. (.3 cu. ft.), Peoria and Eastern Railway / Annual Reports, 1928-1936, 1938-1961, 1963-1966, 1970-1973, 1976. ft.), Enola Realty Company / Minute Books, 1905-1931. (.1 cu. (.15 cu. Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co. Indicates major drainage, cities and towns, and names the railroads along the lines. 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 . Please note: There also exists an unprocessed series of PRR/Penn Central maps entitled: Architectural Drawings and Maps, ca 1818-1970 (1883-1965). [2][13] By 1893, the LVRR owned or controlled 53,000 acres (210km2) of coal lands. 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. On June 21, 1970, the Penn Central declared bankruptcy and sought bankruptcy protection. ft.), Philadelphia and Erie Railroad / Minute Book of the Road Committee, Finance Comm. ft.), Manor Real Estate and Trust Company / Ledgers, 1903-1925. ft.), Susquehanna, Bloomsburg, and Berwick Railroad / Minute Book, 1902-1918. 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. 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. (3.5 cu. ft.), Philadelphia and Erie Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. (152 cu. (.1 cu. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Corporate Histories Prepared in Accord. The Easton and Amboy was used as a connection to the New York metropolitan area, with a terminus in Jersey City, New Jersey. 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. 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. The 1880s continued to be a period of growth, and the LVRR made important acquisitions in New York, expanded its reach into the southern coal field of Pennsylvania which had hitherto been the monopoly of the Reading, and successfully battled the CNJ over terminal facilities in Jersey City. ft.), Enola Realty Company / Ledgers, 1905-1932. ft.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / Property Schedules, (BV 634, 635 and 636), 1936-1941. ft.), Bustleton Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. File usage on other wikis. (12 cu. (.02 cu. ft.), Frederick and Northern Railroad / Minute Book, 1873-1897. 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. However, the route required a 4,893-foot (1,491m) tunnel through/under Musconetcong Mountain near Pattenburg, New Jersey (about twelve miles east of Phillipsburg),[21] and that proved troublesome, delaying the opening of the line until May 1875,[22] when a coal train first passed over the line. (.1 cu. 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. 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. 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 . (.01 cu. 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. [6], Through a connection with the Central Railroad of New Jersey, LVRR passengers had a route to Newark, New Jersey, Jersey City, New Jersey, and other points in New Jersey. No comprehensive finding aid exists for these records. ft.), Coxe Brothers and Company, Inc. / Appendix to Estimates of Coal on Properties Owned or Controlled, 1925. Condition: Used. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Poor's Railroad Manuals, 1923-1949. 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. [44] In 1957, the LVRR again stopped dividends. [1] The LVRR's Newark and Roselle Railway in 1891 brought the line from Roselle into Newark, where passengers connected to the Pennsylvania Railroad. [26] The railroad had survived the economic depression of 1873 and was seeing its business recover. The Lehigh Valley Railroad's original and primary route between Easton and Allentown was built in 1855. File usage on Commons. Proudly founded in 1681 as a place of tolerance and freedom. In 1901, Morgan arranged to have the Packer Estate's holdings purchased jointly by the Erie, the Pennsylvania, the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, the DL&W and the CNJ, all companies in which Morgan had interests. The LVRR first attempted to obtain a right of way at Greenville, but the Pennsylvania Railroad checkmated them by purchasing most of the properties needed. Morgan. (2 cu. ft.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / Valuable Papers Files, 1850-1966. Three months later the line branched out to the northwest past Allentown to Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, on September 12, 1855. ft.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / General Correspondence Files, 1972-1976. The railroad was authorized on April 21, 1846, for freight and transportation of passengers, goods, wares, merchandise and minerals[1] in Pennsylvania and the railroad was incorporated and established on September 20, 1847, as the Delaware, Lehigh, Schuylkill and Susquehanna Railroad Company. 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. ft.), which was maintained by the Secretary's office. 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. (2 cu. The Pennsylvania merged with the New York Central in 1968, but the Penn Central failed in 1970, causing a cascade of railroad failures throughout the East. 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. Names Alter, R. H. Pennsylvania Railroad. (.1 cu. Annual Report of the State Board of Assessors of the State of New Jersey, News Printing Co., 1889, p.85. (.0 cu. (.1 cu. 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. ft.), Valley Real Estate Company / Minute Book, 1907-1922. (.02 cu. 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. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Library /Publicity Photographs, ca 1830-1960. [47][note 1]. 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. In 1883, Hartshorne retired to allow Harry E. Packer, Asa's 32-year-old youngest son, to assume the Presidency. The LVRR was approved for such a restructuring in 1940 when several large mortgage loans were due. (.03 cu. (.1 cu. The LVRR decided to expand more to the Northeastern New Jersey in order to reach its freight yards without using the CNJ main line. Summary Outline map of the middle Atlantic states showing the three major lines in different colors. 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. By controlling supply, the coal combination attempted to keep prices and profits high. The company was a subsidiary of the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company (LC&N), but for much of its lifetime leased by the Central Railroad of New Jersey.It was founded in 1837 to carry coal from the North Branch Division of the Pennsylvania Canal to the . ft.), Erie-Lackawanna Railway / General Correspondence Files, 1953-1967, Erie Railroad / Land Record Books,[ ca 1831-1915]. 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. 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). 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 . 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 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]. ft.), Enola Realty Company / Journals, 1905-1932. (.1 cu. The first acquisitions were the Beaver Meadow Railroad and Coal Company, which included a few hundred acres of coal land, and the Penn Haven and White Haven Railroad. 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. The economic depression following 1893 was harsh, and by 1897 the LVRR was in dire need of support. In 1882, the LVRR began an extensive expansion into New York from Waverly to Buffalo. (.1 cu. (.25 cu. The hotel remained with the company until 1909, when it was bought by residents of the surrounding cottages. ft.), Johnsonburg Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. Abandoned Lines By mileage, no state comes close to the abandonments suffered in Pennsylvania, which now amounts to roughly 6,500 miles. 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. (.4 cu. Maps of North America. Additional passenger trains ran from Philadelphia to Scranton and westward. Newly elected president Eben B. Thomas, formerly of the Erie, and his board of directors represented the combined interests of those railroads.[36]. (.1 cu. a railroad company might have purchased and owned land outright, but in the case of laying track from destination to destination, most simply purchased or otherwise secured a "Right of Way" through the property of private owners - i.e. The owners still owned the property, but the railroad was allowed to conduct agreed-upon activities on the swath in question. Ad vertisement from shop plaindealing. In New Jersey, the LVRR embarked on a decade-long legal battle with the CNJ over terminal facilities in Jersey City. (.25 cu. permission to lay track, run trains and do needed maintenance along a long, narrow swath. 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). The line was laid with a rail weighing 56 pounds per yard supported upon cross ties 6 x 7 inches and 7-1/2 feet long placed 2 feet apart and about a quarter of it was ballasted with stone or gravel. V2 en:Roselle and South Plainfield Railway. 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. ft.), Shamokin Valley and Pottsville Railroad / Acts of Assembly Relating to the Shamokin Valley and Pottsville Railroad, 1858. (35 cu. Photos not available for this variation. This series primarily represents agreements that the PRR entered into with individuals, companies, and local governments. The remainder of the assets were disposed of by the estate until it was folded into the non-railroad Penn Central Corporation in the early 1980s. (.1 cu. Keystone State. By 1970, this had dwindled to 927 miles of road and 1963 miles of track.
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