This microfilm, such as it is, is our best and most comprehensive source of PRR maps at this time. ft.), Berkshire Land Company / Cash Book, 1945-1953. 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. 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. (.3 cu. (.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. ft.), Enola Realty Company / Journals, 1905-1932. These were FAs with steam generators, but they were not designated as FPA-2 units. Countries. (.2 cu. The line hosts approximately twenty-five trains per day, with traffic peaking at the end of the week. Congress reacted with the 1906 Hepburn Act, which among other things forbade railroads from owning the commodities that they transported. The existing tracks from Manville to Newark became a new rail line and Norfolk Southern along with CSX own it under a joint venture. 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. 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. These operators include: The Lehigh Line was the Lehigh Valley Railroad's first rail line and served as the main line. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. In 1920, the LVRR sold its lake line company, the Lehigh Valley Transportation Line, to private interests due to new federal legislation which stopped the practice of railroads owning lake lines. Bankruptcy trustee from August 1974 to April 1976. ft.), Philadelphia and Erie Railroad / Report to the Superintendant of the Tenth Census, 1880. ft.), Northern Central Railway / Committee Minute Book, 1875-1914. 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. Although the decade began with the completion of its terminals at Buffalo and Jersey City, and the establishment of a trunk line across New York, the company soon became entangled in costly business dealings which ultimately led to the Packer family's loss of control. Parts. For 25 years the Lehigh Canal had enjoyed a monopoly on downstream transportation and was charging independent producers high fees. (.15 cu. ft.), Franklin Railroad Company / Minute Books, 1836-1853, 1859-1865. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Reports on Coal and Coal Mines, 1861-1864. 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. 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. He served as chairman of the board while the presidency was vacant until PRR takeover. Originally incorporated as the Delaware, Lehigh, Schuylkill and Susquehanna Railroad Company. (.01 cu. Please note: There also exists an unprocessed series of PRR/Penn Central maps entitled: Architectural Drawings and Maps, ca 1818-1970 (1883-1965). The LVRR was approved for such a restructuring in 1940 when several large mortgage loans were due. The line became known as the Lehigh Line during Conrail ownership. The coal railroads had begun in 1873 to form pools to regulate production and set quotas for each railroad. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Notes for Centennial History of PRR Company, ca 1946-1949. In 1882, the LVRR began an extensive expansion into New York from Waverly to Buffalo. [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. ft.), Pennsylvania and North Western Railroad / Annual Reports, 1890-1901. ft.), Mifflin and Centre County Railroad / Monthly Construction Accounts, 1862-1869. 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. Size of this PNG preview of this SVG file: Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents. Please enable scripts and reload this page. [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. The line is part of Norfolk Southern's Harrisburg Division and it is part of Norfolk Southern's Crescent Corridor, a railroad corridor. (.02 cu. 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. Finally in 1900, the LVRR purchased the National Docks Railway outright. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Contract Book of George B. Roberts, 1869-1884. (.15 cu. ft.), Pittsburgh and Lake Erie / Railroad Annual Reports, 1967, 1969, 1972-1974, 1976-1977. 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. Other resolutions: 320 240 pixels | 640 480 pixels | 1,024 768 pixels | 1,280 960 pixels | 2,560 1,920 pixels. The Beaver Meadow Railroad had been built in 1836, and it transported anthracite coal from Jeansville in Pennsylvania's Middle Coal Field to the Lehigh Canal at Mauch Chunk. ft.), PRR / President / Subject Index to Presidential Corr. The United States Railroad Administration controlled the railroad from 1918 to 1920, at which time control was transferred back to the private companies. The Lehigh Valley Railroad was another of the many Northeastern carriers built to move anthracite coal from eastern Pennsylvania. (.01 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. 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. Condition: Used. President Richard Nixon signed the Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973 into law. (.1 cu. The line connects with Conrail Shared Assets Operations's Lehigh Line (the new rail line) and CSX Transportation's Trenton Subdivision at Port Reading Junction in Manville, New Jersey, and connects with the Reading Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad's Reading Division at Packerton, Pennsylvania, and Reading Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad's Lehigh Division at Lehighton, Pennsylvania (originally M&H Junction near Old Penn Haven, Pennsylvania). ft.), Pioneer Real Estate Company / Minute Book, 1946-1947. Eventually, the Easton and Amboy Railroad was absorbed into the parent Lehigh Valley Railroad. [3], Little occurred between 1847 and 1851, save some limited grading near Allentown, Pennsylvania. Size of this PNG preview of this SVG file: 800 600 pixels. ft.), Katharine Water Company / Minute Book, 1904-1925. (.1 cu. ft.), PRR / Secretary / One Hundredth Anniversary Historical Files, ca 1876-1946. (2006) ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate & Taxation / Reports on Coal and Coal Mines, 1861-1864. (.5 cu. 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). It was located along the Hamilton Street Bridge in Allentown. 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 / General Correspondence Files and Coal Mine Reports, 1930-1938. [8] The purchasing of the North Branch Canal saw an opportunity for a near monopoly in the region north of the Wyoming Valley. Two final blows fell in the 1950s: the passage of the Federal-Aid Highway Act in 1956, better known as the Interstate Highway Act, and the opening of the Saint Lawrence Seaway in 1959. The Shortsville to Victor segment became the Ontario Central Railroad in 1979 (the Ontario Central became part of the Finger Lakes Railway in October 2007[51]). (11.9 cu. ft.), Erie Railroad / Miscellaneous Land Records, [ca. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Board Files: Wire and Pipe Crossing Agreements, 1925-1957. ft.), Manor Real Estate and Trust Company / Property Ledger, 1886-1916. 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. 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. Photos not available for this variation. . (11 cu. 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. The Lehigh Valley Railroad (reporting mark LV) was a railroad built in the Northeastern United States to haul anthracite coal from the Coal Region in Pennsylvania. ft.), Valley Real Estate Company / Minute Book, 1907-1922. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Post Office Files, 1923-1933. 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 . (1.3 cu. Free shipping for many products! Summary Outline map of the middle Atlantic states showing the three major lines in different colors. 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. 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 cu. (.3 cu. [6], The LVRR immediately became the trunk line down the Lehigh Valley, with numerous feeder railroads connecting and contributing to its traffic. [18] For most of its length, it ran parallel to the LVRR. The LVRR operated several named trains in the post-World War II era. ft.), Peoria and Eastern Railway / Annual Reports, 1928-1936, 1938-1961, 1963-1966, 1970-1973, 1976. Joy and Lancaster Railroad / Minute Book of the Committee on Real Estate and the Road, 1850-1855. 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. [1] Operations continued until the LVRR's bankruptcy in 1976. 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. (3.5 cu. All structured data from the file namespace is available under the. 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. 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. [25] While the third rail on the Erie Railroad main line between Waverly and Buffalo gave the LVRR an unbroken connection to Buffalo, the road's management desired its own line into Buffalo. By 1970, this had dwindled to 927 miles of road and 1963 miles of track. In 1864, the LVRR began acquiring feeder railroads and merging them with its system. plaindealing From shop plaindealing. It passes through the approximately 5,000-foot Pattenburg Tunnel in West Portal, New Jersey, along its route. 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. System Map (1940) An official, 1940 system map of the Lehigh & New England Railroad. File. Budd Rail Diesel Car service would continue on a branch line (Lehighton-Hazleton) for an additional four days. Lehigh Valley Railroad Company records, 1870-1962. In 1866, Master Mechanic Alexander Mitchell designed the "Consolidation", 1945: The first Lehigh Valley Railroad mainline diesels arrive in the form of.