During the majority of its ownership under the Lehigh Valley Railroad, the line was known as the Lehigh Valley Mainline, starting in the 1930s. (MP 13/MP 13a/MP13c), 1896-1920. 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. The company controlled 30,000 acres (120km2) of coal-producing lands and was expanding rapidly into New York and 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. [1][19][bettersourceneeded][20]. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / General Correspondence Files and Coal Mine Reports, 1930-1938. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Board Files: BFA Series, ca 1905-1960. 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. 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! Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps. 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. 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]. The interstate highways helped the trucking industry offer door-to-door service, and the St. Lawrence Seaway allowed grain shipments to bypass the railways and go directly to overseas markets. 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. By controlling supply, the coal combination attempted to keep prices and profits high. Small party privacy and fantastic views! No comprehensive finding aid exists for these records. (.0 cu. A pair of ALCO FA-2 FB-2 car body diesel-electric locomotives were also purchased to augment the PAs when necessary. Lehigh Valley Railroad Station was a beautiful building that dated back to 1890. permission to lay track, run trains and do needed maintenance along a long, narrow swath. Passengers were routed to the Pennsylvania Railroad's terminal and ferry. (.1 cu. 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.), Manor Real Estate and Trust Company / Journals, 1886-1929. ft.), Columbia and Port Deposit Railway / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Printed Abstracts of Title, 1869, 1875. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Board of Directors' Roll Books, 1918-1967. 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. 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. In 1875, the holdings were consolidated into the Lehigh Valley Coal Company, which was wholly owned by the LVRR. ft.), Bell's Gap Railroad / Annual Reports, 1873-1889. Then the CNJ opposed the LVRR's attempt to cross its line at Caven Point. [1], Further rounds of acquisitions took place in 1868. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Imprint File, 1904-1968. (2006) ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate & Taxation / Reports on Coal and Coal Mines, 1861-1864. 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. Language: It was followed by the "Catasauqua" 4-4-0 and "Lehigh" 4-6-0, which were also Norris & Sons engines. In 1856, the "E. A. Packer" 4-4-0 was purchased from William Mason of Taunton, Massachusetts. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Library / Library Reference Materials, ca 1834-1963. (.1 cu. (.1 cu. (2 cu. Conrail maintained the line as a main line into the New York City area. 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. Winning bid: US $15.00. (35 cu. (.1 cu. ft.), PRR / VP of Special Services / Penn Central Merger Files, 1963-1965. (1 cu. (1 cu. 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. ft.), Enola Realty Company / Ledgers, 1905-1932. The "T" intersection is also visible on the map where the trains would turn into the depot at the village of Hemlock. You may be trying to access this site from a secured browser on the server. 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. Throughout that decade, expansions continued into New York by taking over smaller lines and building new railroad. 5 out of 5 stars (5,213) $ 19.50 FREE shipping Add to Favorites . 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. It was located along the Hamilton Street Bridge in Allentown. 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. (.5 cu. 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. ft.), PRR / VP of Operation / Chief of Motive Power / Miscellaneous Motive Power Blueprints and Related Materials, ca 1900-1968. ft.), Susquehanna, Bloomsburg, and Berwick Railroad / Minute Book, 1902-1918. 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"). [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. (.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. (1 cu. Lehigh Valley Pennsylvania Railroad Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh This 5-railroad network will remain essentially unchanged for the first half of the 20th Century. (11.9 cu. (.3 cu. The restructuring allowed the LVRR to extend the maturity of its mortgages, but it needed to repeat the process in 1950. ft.), Northern Central Railway / Committee Minute Book, 1875-1914. Most serviceable equipment not retained for company service was sold to other roads. [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. 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. w/ Val. 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]. (.1 cu. (.1 cu. Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission, Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps forPennsylvania, Aerial Photographs and Index of the 1940 Aerial Survey of Pennsylvania, 1937-1942. ft.), PRR / VP Eastern Region / Letter Books, 1924-1926. [2][13] By 1893, the LVRR owned or controlled 53,000 acres (210km2) of coal lands. 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. Morgan. ft.), Cherry Tree and Dixonville Railroad / Minute Books, 1903-1943. Someone in either of those two offices or perhaps in the County Planning Commission Office might also know the general status of the different rail lines in the county -i.e. ft.), Pioneer Real Estate Company / Minute Book, 1946-1947. In 1866, Master Mechanic Alexander Mitchell designed the "Consolidation", 1945: The first Lehigh Valley Railroad mainline diesels arrive in the form of. The 1890s were a period of turmoil for the LVRR. It passes through the approximately 5,000-foot Pattenburg Tunnel in West Portal, New Jersey, along its route. In the years leading to 1973, the freight railroad system in the northeast of the U.S. was collapsing. ft.), Manor Real Estate and Trust Company / Property Ledger, 1886-1916. These maps, bridge and structure drawings remains unprocessed. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. 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. ft.), PRR / VP Central Region / Blueprint Track Chart of Branch Lines, 1938. 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. Lehigh Gorge Trains are located at 1 Susquehanna Street, Jim Thorpe, PA 18229 #570-325-8485 . (1 cu. (.1 cu. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Letter Press Books of J.C. Wilson, Assistant Chief Engineer and Real Estate Agent, 1876-1889. ft.), Kensington and Tacony Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. Map of the Pennsylvania Schuylkill Valley Railroad, the predecessor to the Schuylkill Branch The abandoned Schuylkill Branch bridge over the Schuylkill River at Lower Pottsgrove, photographed in 2011 The Schuylkill Branch was a rail line owned and operated by the former Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. [citation needed]. In 1870, the Lehigh Valley Railroad acquired trackage rights to Auburn, New York, on the Southern Central Railroad.[1]. Fortunately, grain tonnage was increasing and the company transported large quantities from Buffalo to Philadelphia and other Eastern markets. 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). In the following years, the Pennsylvania quietly obtained more stock, both directly and through railroads it controlled, primarily the Wabash. (3 cu. Congress reacted with the 1906 Hepburn Act, which among other things forbade railroads from owning the commodities that they transported. 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. (.1 cu. On April 1, 1976, the LVRR, including its main line, was merged into the U.S. government's Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail) ending 130 years of existence and 121 years of operation of the LVRR. [29] At the same time, the LVRR organized the Buffalo and Geneva Railroad to build the rest of the 97-mile Geneva to Buffalo trackage, from Geneva to Lancaster. The Lehigh Line still exists and still serves as a major freight railroad line that operates in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. (.1 cu. The purchase of the Penn Haven and White Haven was the first step in expanding to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Please enable scripts and reload this page. (.01 cu. 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. [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]. ft.), PRR / VP of Special Services / Merger Testimony and Exhibits, 1962-1967. (9 cu. 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. That southern field held the largest reserves of anthracite in Pennsylvania and accounted for a large percentage of the total production. 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. (5 cu. 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. [44] In 1957, the LVRR again stopped dividends. 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. 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. At Phillipsburg, New Jersey, the Belvidere Delaware Railroad connected to Trenton, New Jersey. The LVRR began construction of a series of railroads to connect the Easton and Amboy line (Easton and Amboy Railroad) to Jersey City. (.02 cu. The line became known as the Lehigh Line during Conrail ownership. (.2 cu. On April 1, 1976, major portions of the assets of the bankrupt Lehigh Valley Railroad were acquired by Conrail. (17.5 cu. Bridging Newark Bay proved difficult. That project failed, but the lands were later used for the LVRR's own terminal in 1889. ft.), Erie Railroad / Miscellaneous Land Records, [ca. Names Alter, R. H. Pennsylvania Railroad. [45], In 1944, the LVRR's gross revenues came close to $100,000,000 which was a milestone for the railroad.[1]. (.3 cu. ft.), Manor Real Estate and Trust Company / Indexes to Minutes, 1870-1954. Size of this PNG preview of this SVG file: 800 600 pixels. 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. Conversely, the other railroads' obligations to pay those fees to the Penn Central were not waived. 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. 6 Replies 6377 Views by lvrr325 Fri Aug 28, 2015 3:20 pm: 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.), Erie-Lackawanna Railway / General Correspondence Files, 1953-1967, Erie Railroad / Land Record Books,[ ca 1831-1915]. Creator: Lehigh Valley Railroad Company Quanitities: 6 cubic feet. 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. ft.), Baltimore and Potomac / Blueprint Book of Proposed Revision of Line and Grades in Washington, D.C., undated. (2.25 cu. (.3 cu. This route became important to Conrail as an alternate route to avoid Amtrak's former PRR/PC Northeast Corridor electrified route. The owners still owned the property, but the railroad was allowed to conduct agreed-upon activities on the swath in question. (.1 cu. [1], Throughout the 1920s the railroad remained in the hands of the Morgan / Drexel banking firm, but in 1928 an attempt was made to wrest control from it. System Map (1940) An official, 1940 system map of the Lehigh & New England Railroad. The Lehigh Valley Railroad remained in operation during the 1970 bankruptcy, as was the common practice of the time. (.2 cu. F. A . By 1859 it had 600 coal cars and 19 engines. ft.), PRR / VP of Eastern Region / Press Copy Plan Book, 1899-1907. [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. Lehigh Valley Railroad; Discussion related to the Lehigh Valley Railroad and predecessors for the period 1846-1976. 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. ft.), Enola Realty Company / Property Sales Accounts, 1905-1914. The railroad then set its sights northward. Another series relating to PRR real estate holdings, rights of way and agreements is the Valuable Papers File, [ca. ft.), Frederick and Northern Railroad / Minute Book, 1873-1897. (.01 cu. In 1864, the LVRR began acquiring feeder railroads and merging them with its system. By 1970, this had dwindled to 927 miles of road and 1963 miles of track. 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 Lehigh Valley Railroad began providing service to Hemlock lake in 1895. (.4 cu. (.4 cu. 1902 - NYC introduces The 20th Century Limited. ft.), Susquehanna and Clearfield Railroad / Annual Report to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. [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. Lehigh Valley Railroad. 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. ft.), PRR / V.P. LVRR Map 1 2016-08-10T14:17:31 . The Penn Haven and White Haven Railroad allowed the LV to reach White Haven. (.25 cu. In 1895, the LVRR constructed the Greenville and Hudson Railway parallel with the national docks in order to relieve congestion and have a wholly-owned route into Jersey City. ft.), Enola Realty Company / Minute Books, 1905-1931. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Pamphlet Description of Corporations in which PRR and Subs. The railroad also published a monthly magazine promoting travel on the train called the "Black Diamond Express Monthly". (.2 cu. 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. 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. (1 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. (.1 cu. ft.), Philadelphia and Erie Railroad / Agreement Book, 1853-1894. Budd Rail Diesel Car service would continue on a branch line (Lehighton-Hazleton) for an additional four days. to Glen Summit Springs ft.), PRR / Secretary / Notes for Centennial History of PRR Company, ca 1946-1949. Approximately 350,000 tons of anthracite moved to Perth Amboy during that year for transshipment by water. (.1 cu. 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. Most of the rail equipment went to Conrail as well, but 24 locomotives (units GP38-2 314-325 and C420 404415) went to the Delaware & Hudson instead. James Madison Porter was the first President of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. (.55 cu. (143 cu. At Three Bridges, New Jersey, in Readington Township, the line interchanges with Black River and Western Railroad. ft.), Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad / Agreements, Leases and Mortgage, 1847-1886. ft.), PRR / Secretary / General Correspondence Files, ca 1887-1972. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Lease and Agreement Book, 1858-1889. 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. ft.), Harrisburg, Portsmouth, Mt. A long segment west from Van Etten Junction to Buffalo was included in the Conrail takeover, but was mostly torn-up not long afterward. Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co. . The LVRR strove throughout the 1880s to acquire its own route to Jersey City and to the Jersey City waterfront. The Depression had been difficult for all the railroads, and Congress recognized that bankruptcy laws needed revision. Additional passenger trains ran from Philadelphia to Scranton and westward. ft.), PRR / President / Clement / Eastern Region Coordinating Committee Files, 1933-1936. ft.), Chambersburg Land and Improvement Company / Minute Book, 1890-1905. 1906 Antique Lehigh Valley Railroad Map Vintage Lehigh Valley Railway Map Birthday Gift for Dad Anniversary 527 ad vertisement by plaindealing. ft.), Shamokin Valley and Pottsville Railroad / Acts of Assembly Relating to the Shamokin Valley and Pottsville Railroad, 1858. 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. ft.), North Penn Coal Company / Minute Book, 1913-1938. [42], Following the Great Depression, the railroad had a few periods of prosperity, but was clearly in a slow decline. The Lehigh Valley Railroad was another of the many Northeastern carriers built to move anthracite coal from eastern Pennsylvania. 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. 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 / Annual Reports of Water Companies, 1914. Finally in 1887 the two railroads reached a settlement, and construction of the LVRR's Jersey City freight yard began. 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. Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. This allowed the line's eastbound grade to be reduced and a shorter route for handling through traffic established. (.1 cu. The railroad was chartered on August 2, 1847, and elected James Madison Porter its president on October 21. 1951: September 14: Last day of steam on the Lehigh Valley Railroad as. [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.
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