The LVRR's Newark and Roselle Railway in 1891 brought the line from Roselle into Newark, where passengers connected to the Pennsylvania Railroad. the succession of recorded deeds). In 1870, the Lehigh Valley Railroad acquired trackage rights to Auburn, New York, on the Southern Central Railroad.[1]. Ball, Chief Conveyancer and Benjamin W. Carskaddon, Assistant Real Estate Agent, 1876-1902. ft.), PRR / VP of Special Services / Water Company Files, 1905-1956. ft.), Pittsburgh and Lake Erie / Railroad Annual Reports, 1967, 1969, 1972-1974, 1976-1977. ft.), Pennsylvania and Midland Railroad / Court Proceedings, 1895-1899. The building shutdown in 1961 and was demolished. The LVRR operated several named trains in the post-World War II era. 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 Finally in 1900, the LVRR purchased the National Docks Railway outright. 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. Subsequently, the LVRR favored engines from Baldwin Locomotive Works and William Mason, but tried many other designs as it experimented with motive power that could handle the line's heavy grades.[7]. Lehigh Valley Railroad System Maps RAILFAN GUIDES HOME RAILROAD SIGNALS HOME More info at: http://www.lehighvalleyrr.com/ http://www.marjum.com/niagjct/index.html http://www.railroad.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=128&t=1907 I wonder what it is with the name CHUNK that "they" wanted to use it twice? [30] As a result of its leases and acquisitions, the Lehigh Valley gained a near-monopoly on traffic in the Finger Lakes region. (.11 cu. 5 out of 5 stars (5,213) $ 19.50 FREE shipping Add to Favorites . Names Alter, R. H. Pennsylvania Railroad. Indicates major drainage, cities and towns, and names the railroads along the lines. (.02 cu. ft.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / Valuable Papers Files, 1850-1966. From 1855 to 1879 the Lehigh Valley Railroad had grown from its original road between Mauch Chunk and Easton, to include 658 miles of track as far away as Buffalo and New York City. (1 cu. [43] The terms of the restructurings precluded dividend payments until 1953, when LVRR common stock paid the first dividend since 1931. 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). The purpose of the Temple Iron Company was to lock-up independent coal production and control the supply. (.2 cu. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Notes for Centennial History of PRR Company, ca 1946-1949. Cassatt and James McCrea, ca 1899-1913. (.1 cu. ft.), PRR / VP Central Region / Blueprint Track Chart of Branch Lines, 1938. 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. ft.), Downingtown and Lancaster Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. The "T" intersection is also visible on the map where the trains would turn into the depot at the village of Hemlock. The coal railroads had begun in 1873 to form pools to regulate production and set quotas for each railroad. Other RBMN Train Rides . ft.), PRR / VP of Finance / Treasurer / Treasurer's Cash Books, 1847-1863, 1865-1925. 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. Parts. (.02 cu. The 23 miles between Mauch Chunk and White Haven through the Lehigh Gorge, now the D&L Trail, was opened in 1864. This is currently the last time the line has been downsized. 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. By the 1960s, railroads in the East were struggling to survive. 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. 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. ft.), Enola Realty Company / Property Sales Accounts, 1905-1914. Condition: Used. [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. 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 some cases (yards, stations, repair facilities, etc.) The railroad then set its sights northward. (.3 cu. From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. 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 Lehigh Valley Railroad remained in operation during the 1970 bankruptcy, as was the common practice of the time. 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. Although the roads effectively ignored the Act and their sales agents continued to meet and set prices, the agreements were never effective for long. Original file (SVG file, nominally 800 600 pixels, file size: 447 KB). ft.), PRR / Secretary / General Correspondence Files, ca 1887-1972. 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 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.), Finley Company / Minute Books, 1945-1959. (.1 cu. ft.), which was maintained by the Secretary's office. 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.), Cherry Tree and Dixonville Railroad / Minute Books, 1903-1943. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Board Files: Wire and Pipe Crossing Agreements, 1925-1957. That project failed, but the lands were later used for the LVRR's own terminal in 1889. Please note: There also exists an unprocessed series of PRR/Penn Central maps entitled: Architectural Drawings and Maps, ca 1818-1970 (1883-1965). ft.), Valley Real Estate Company / Journal Entries, 1919. 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. (.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. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Information Books, ca 1926-1954. 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. (.16 cu. 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. ft.), Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad / Agreements, Leases and Mortgage, 1847-1886. (92 cu. The Easton and Amboy's operations were labeled the "New Jersey Division" of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. These operators include: The Lehigh Line was the Lehigh Valley Railroad's first rail line and served as the main line. ft.), Pittsburgh, Chartiers and Yougheogheny Railway / Annual Reports, 1892-1910. ft.), PRR / VP of Special Services / Merger Testimony and Exhibits, 1962-1967. Full Promotional Video: Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway (.5 cu. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Contract Book of George B. Roberts, 1869-1884. (1 cu. 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. [6], The LVRR immediately became the trunk line down the Lehigh Valley, with numerous feeder railroads connecting and contributing to its traffic. Post Conrail ownership and secondary lines. This microfilm, such as it is, is our best and most comprehensive source of PRR maps at this time. ft.), PRR / VP of Operation / Chief of Motive Power / Miscellaneous Motive Power Blueprints and Related Materials, ca 1900-1968. Small party privacy and fantastic views! (1.25 cu. The railroad also published a monthly magazine promoting travel on the train called the "Black Diamond Express Monthly". 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. The majority of passenger equipment is believed to have been scrapped some time after February 1961. The Delaware, Lehigh, Schuylkill and Susquehanna Railroad (DLS&S) was authorized by the Pennsylvania General Assembly on April 21, 1846, to construct a railroad from Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, now Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, to Easton, Pennsylvania. The tracks from Dupont to Mehoopany became a new rail line called the Susquehanna Branch. Conrail maintained the line as a main line into the New York City area. (.25 cu. The economic depression following 1893 was harsh, and by 1897 the LVRR was in dire need of support. (.53 cu. (.01 cu. In 1871, the LVRR leased the Morris Canal, which had a valuable outlet in Jersey City on the Hudson River opposite Manhattan. Bankruptcy trustee July 1970August 1974. Throughout that decade, expansions continued into New York by taking over smaller lines and building new railroad. At Three Bridges, New Jersey, in Readington Township, the line interchanges with Black River and Western Railroad. 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.), Chambersburg Land and Improvement Company / Minute Book, 1890-1905. 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. ft.), Frederick and Northern Railroad / Minute Book, 1873-1897. [34] The LVRR obtained a 5-year agreement to use the CNJ line to access the terminal, which opened in 1889. The line gave the LVRR a route into Pottsville, Pennsylvania, and the Schuylkill Valley coal fields.[32]. The Association of American Railroads, which opposed nationalization, submitted an alternate proposal for a government-funded private company. Due to declining passenger patronage, the Lehigh Valley successfully petitioned the Interstate Commerce Commission to terminate all passenger service. 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 railroad was chartered on August 2, 1847, and elected James Madison Porter its president on October 21. The 1890s were a period of turmoil for the LVRR. 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.), Berkshire Land Company / Journal and Ledger, 1939-1955. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Board of Directors' Roll Books, 1918-1967. . Paper or digital copies of the items on the list can then be ordered. Photograph by Donald W. Furler, Furler-12-021-01 . The first locomotive purchased by the LVRR was the "Delaware", a wood-burning 4-4-0 built by Richard Norris & Sons of Philadelphia in 1855. 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. [3], Little occurred between 1847 and 1851, save some limited grading near Allentown, Pennsylvania. In order to document their corporate valuations to the ICC, American railroad companies had to submit detailed maps of their real estate holdings. 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. ft.), Northern Central Railway / Committee Minute Book, 1875-1914. ft.), PRR / VP of Operation / Chief of Motive Power / Condition of Frt. Digitized content from the collections of Cornell University Library By 1970, this had dwindled to 927 miles of road and 1963 miles of track. 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. (2 cu. 1902 - NYC introduces The 20th Century Limited. (.01 cu. Bridging Newark Bay proved difficult. The former Lehigh Valley tracks between Manville, New Jersey, and Newark are operated separately by Conrail Shared Assets Operations as their own Lehigh Line. (.1 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. Coal, steel, passengers, and various other freight could be carried via the Lehigh Valley Railroad to either the Great Lakes or . (.1 cu. (2.25 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. (.1 cu. ft.), PRR / VP of Eastern Region / Press Copy Plan Book, 1899-1907. (.4 cu. (5 cu. So, its motto, Route Of The Black Diamond, was quite befitting and led directly to both its rise in prosperity and downfall into bankruptcy. ft.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / Statements of Additions and Betterments (GA-8), 1918-1929, 1931-1932. ft.), Katharine Water Company / Minute Book, 1904-1925. 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. (.1 cu. (13 cu. Abandoned Lines By mileage, no state comes close to the abandonments suffered in Pennsylvania, which now amounts to roughly 6,500 miles. 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 . Some lines were subsequently abandoned and even dismantled long before the expiration date came up. File usage on Commons. No comprehensive finding aid exists for these records. Although in 1870 the LVRR had invested in the 2-mile (3.2km) Buffalo Creek Railroad, which connected the Erie to the lakefront, and had constructed the Lehigh Docks on Buffalo Creek, it depended on the Erie Railroad for the connection from Waverly to Buffalo, New York.[9]. From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. [17] In 1871, the entire line from Phillipsburg to Wilkes-Barre was leased to the CNJ. (5.6 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. Bankruptcy trustee from August 1974 to April 1976. ft.), PRR / VP of Special Services / Merger Studies, 1950-1970. ft.), PRR / VP of Purchase / General Correspondence and Confidential Files of C.D. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Annual Reports and Data, 1920-1933. It was located along the Hamilton Street Bridge in Allentown. ft.), Mifflin and Centre County Railroad / Monthly Construction Accounts, 1862-1869. Right-of-way agreements might be attached to or referenced in the chain of title (i.e. (.1 cu. (2 cu. ft.), PRR / Secretary / One Hundredth Anniversary Historical Files, ca 1876-1946. 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 en:Hoboken Manufacturers' Railroad; 2 en:Bay Shore Connecting Railroad; 3 en:Whippany River Railroad The original maps were never transferred to the Archives, but a book by book inventory of the film exists. 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. The Valuable Papers are arranged numerically by file number, and are indexed by 27 rolls of 16 mm microfilm (roll #s RRV 1073-1099) in a variety of ways: alphabetically by personal or corporate name of parties, alphabeticaly by name of geographical location, and numerically by file number. It was opened on June 11, 1855, between Easton, Pennsylvania, and Allentown, Pennsylvania, passing through Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. ft.), Susquehanna Coal Company / Leases, 1883-1939. (.1 cu. ft.), Valley Real Estate Company - Ledger, 1907-1922. A massive proxy fight ensued, with existing President Edward Eugene Loomis narrowly retaining his position with the support of Edward T. Stotesbury of J. P. 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. of Law / Miscellaneous Interstate Commerce Commission Case Files, 1927-1935. In 1916, a horrendous explosion occurred at the facility, destroying ships and buildings, and breaking windows in Manhattan. 1906 Antique Lehigh Valley Railroad Map Vintage Lehigh Valley Railway Map Birthday Gift for Dad Anniversary 527 ad vertisement by plaindealing. 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 two most popular reasons for wishing to consult railroad-related land records are property ownership investigations and historical research. ft.), Enola Realty Company / Minute Books, 1905-1931. V2 en:Roselle and South Plainfield Railway. At Phillipsburg, New Jersey, the Belvidere Delaware Railroad connected to Trenton, New Jersey. A final attempt to establish a coal cartel took place in 1904 with the formation of the Temple Iron Company. [45], In 1944, the LVRR's gross revenues came close to $100,000,000 which was a milestone for the railroad.[1]. 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. [24] The marshalling yard is now the residential area known as Harbortown. 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. (11 cu. (6.05 cu. The LVRR strove throughout the 1880s to acquire its own route to Jersey City and to the Jersey City waterfront. 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. He served as chairman of the board while the presidency was vacant until PRR takeover. The 16 mile mountain cut-of, a rail segment of the line that extended from Fairview, Pennsylvania, to the outskirts of Pittston, Pennsylvania, was completed in November 1888. (.1 cu. ft.), PRR / President / Presidential Correspondence of W.W. Atterbury, 1925-1935. (.1 cu. Congress reacted with the 1906 Hepburn Act, which among other things forbade railroads from owning the commodities that they transported. ft.), PRR / Comptroller / General Correspondence Files, 1924-1964. It fronted the Morris Canal Basin with a series of 600-foot (180m) piers angling out from the shoreline but was too narrow for a yard, so the LVRR built a separate yard at Oak Island in Newark to sort and prepare trains. ft.), Shamokin Valley and Pottsville Railroad / Acts of Assembly Relating to the Shamokin Valley and Pottsville Railroad, 1858. The Chandler Acts of 1938-9 provided a new form of relief for railroads, allowing them to restructure their debt while continuing to operate. LVRR Map 1 2016-08-10T14:17:31 . Free shipping for many products! 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. All structured data from the file namespace is available under the. Railroad Leader. ft.), Erie Railroad / Miscellaneous Land Records, [ca. (3 cu. United States (except New York) States. ft.), Valley Real Estate Company / Minute Book, 1907-1922. The State of New Jersey passed legislation that allowed the LVRR to consolidate its New Jersey railroads into one company; the Perth Amboy and Bound Brook and the Bound Brook and Easton were merged to form a new railroad company called the Easton and Amboy Railroad (or Easton & Amboy Railroad Company). 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. [28] LVRR subsidiary, Lehigh Valley Railway began constructing the main line's northern part from Buffalo to Lancaster, New York, in 1883, a total distance of ten miles. ft.), Philadelphia and Erie Railroad / Minute Book of the Road Committee, Finance Comm. (.2 cu. (12 cu. 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.), Franklin Railroad Company / Minute Books, 1836-1853, 1859-1865. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Secretary's Correspondence, 1860-1966 (1905-1966). In 1927, Leonor Fresnel Loree, president of the Delaware and Hudson Railroad, had a vision for a new fifth trunk line between the East and West, consisting of the Wabash Railroad, the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway, and the LVRR. 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. (.2 cu. A pair of ALCO FA-2 FB-2 car body diesel-electric locomotives were also purchased to augment the PAs when necessary. ft.), Nescopec Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. (.1 cu. Size of this PNG preview of this SVG file: Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents. These engineering drawings consist primarily of maps and structure drawings, although other subjects such as bridges, grade crossings and equipments are also documented. 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} . ft.), Harrisburg, Portsmouth, Mt. (.2 cu. 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 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. The best place to find out the current status of a particular piece of land would be the Recorder of Deeds and/or Tax Mapping office in the relevant county's courthouse. [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. The Lehigh Valley Railroad's original and primary route between Easton and Allentown was built in 1855. ft.), Manor Real Estate and Trust Company / Property Ledger, 1886-1916. (5 cu. 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. In the following years, the Pennsylvania quietly obtained more stock, both directly and through railroads it controlled, primarily the Wabash. 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 Penn Haven and White Haven Railroad allowed the LV to reach White Haven. [31], In Pennsylvania, the Lehigh scored a coup by obtaining the charter formerly held by the Schuykill Haven and Lehigh River Railroad in 1886. (.25 cu. Although the 1864 acquisition of the Beaver Meadow had included a few hundred acres of coal land, by 1868 the LVRR was feeling pressure from the Delaware and Hudson and the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad in the northern Wyoming Valley coal field, where the railroads mined and transported their own coal at a much reduced cost. VDOMDHTMLtml> Map of the Pennsylvania, Reading, and Lehigh Valley Railroads, and their connections. ft.), PRR / VP of Law / Riot Docket and Ejectment Suits, 1877-1895. The LVRR was approved for such a restructuring in 1940 when several large mortgage loans were due. A long segment west from Van Etten Junction to Buffalo was included in the Conrail takeover, but was mostly torn-up not long afterward.
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