Any of the State Archives aerial photograph collections, including: images for these and other years available online via the, MG-286 Hollyman Publicity Photographs, ca 1940-1959. That charter had been held by the Reading Railroad since 1860, when it had blocked construction in order to maintain its monopoly in the Southern Coal Field. ft.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / List of Roadway Completion Reports (BV 586), 1919-1927. This is currently the last time the line has been downsized. Budd Rail Diesel Car service would continue on a branch line (Lehighton-Hazleton) for an additional four days. ft.), Pittsburgh, Chartiers and Yougheogheny Railway / Annual Reports, 1892-1910. (MP 13/MP 13a/MP13c), 1896-1920. 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. Please enable scripts and reload this page. ft.), PRR / VP of Eastern Region / Locality Files, 1918-1936. The LVRR's Newark and Roselle Railway in 1891 brought the line from Roselle into Newark, where passengers connected to the Pennsylvania Railroad. 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. ft.), Peoria and Eastern Railway / Annual Reports, 1928-1936, 1938-1961, 1963-1966, 1970-1973, 1976. The train arrives from far away and passes the camera, while workers are waving their handkerchiefs.[37]. [1], The length of the line from Mauch Chunk to Easton was 46 miles of single track. 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. (29 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. (.1 cu. Names Alter, R. H. Pennsylvania Railroad. For 25 years the Lehigh Canal had enjoyed a monopoly on downstream transportation and was charging independent producers high fees. President Richard Nixon signed the Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973 into law. 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. (1.25 cu. Finally, in 1889, the LVRR gained control of the Geneva, Ithaca, and Sayre Railroad and completed its line of rail through New York. ft.), Manor Real Estate and Trust Company / Minute Books, 1870-1954. The two most popular reasons for wishing to consult railroad-related land records are property ownership investigations and historical research. 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). (.2 cu. Maps of North America. This page was last edited on 15 September 2020, at 21:11. (.03 cu. [30] As a result of its leases and acquisitions, the Lehigh Valley gained a near-monopoly on traffic in the Finger Lakes region. (2 cu. At Phillipsburg, New Jersey, the Belvidere Delaware Railroad connected to Trenton, New Jersey. (.1 cu. Lehigh Valley Trail Facts States: New York Counties: Monroe, Ontario Length: 16.4 miles Trail end points: W. River Road/County Road 84 (Scottsville) and Lehigh Crossing Park at Shallow Creek Trail and Victor Mendon Road (Victor) Trail surfaces: Crushed Stone Trail category: Rail-Trail ID: 6015034 Activities: The section between Allentown and Mauch Chunk opened on September 12. [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. ft.), Ridgeway and Clearfield Railroad / Minute Book, 1882-1911. Newly elected president Eben B. Thomas, formerly of the Erie, and his board of directors represented the combined interests of those railroads.[36]. 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. 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. (.1 cu. (.05 cu. The majority of the Lehigh Line is now owned by the Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) and retains much of its original route in eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey, although it no longer goes into New York City. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Minute Books of the Road Committee, 1847-1948. 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. This microfilm, such as it is, is our best and most comprehensive source of PRR maps at this time. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Printed Abstracts of Title, 1869, 1875. ft.), Philadelphia and Erie Railroad / Report to the Superintendant of the Tenth Census, 1880. ft.), PRR / V.P. (.4 cu. (2 cu. [31], In Pennsylvania, the Lehigh scored a coup by obtaining the charter formerly held by the Schuykill Haven and Lehigh River Railroad in 1886. ft.), Frederick and Northern Railroad / Minute Book, 1873-1897. (25 cu. DeRuyter Val Map - info needed by Cactus Jack - Tue Aug 25, 2015 2:08 pm. 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. (.16 cu. Following Federal legislation which stopped the operation of such service, the lake line was sold to private interests in 1920. (.5 cu. (.2 cu. 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. The Chandler Acts of 1938-9 provided a new form of relief for railroads, allowing them to restructure their debt while continuing to operate. (1 cu. (2 cu. 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. (3 cu. [8] The purchasing of the North Branch Canal saw an opportunity for a near monopoly in the region north of the Wyoming Valley. Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973, Pub.L. 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. the succession of recorded deeds). (2.25 cu. [14], The 1870s witnessed commencement of extension of the LVRR in a new direction. 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. 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. Post Conrail ownership and secondary lines. 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. (.02 cu. ft.), Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad / Agreements, Leases and Mortgage, 1847-1886. LVRR Map 1 2016-08-10T14:17:31 . [6] To accommodate the 4ft 10in (1,473mm) gauge of the Belvidere, the cars were furnished with wheels having wide treads that operated on both roads.[7]. ft.), PRR / VP of Finance / Treasurer / Treasurer's Cash Books, 1847-1863, 1865-1925. ft.), Manor Real Estate and Trust Company / Stock Transfer Book, 1889-1931. ft.), Berkshire Land Company / Journal and Ledger, 1939-1955. 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]. (.55 cu. [1][19][bettersourceneeded][20]. ft.), Valley Real Estate Company / Cash Book, 1907-1922. ft.), Susquehanna and Clearfield Railroad / Annual Report to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. [18] For most of its length, it ran parallel to the LVRR. (.1 cu. The series listed below contain scattered information and/or maps of PRR and Penn Central real estate holdings in Manuscript Group 286. ft.), Clearfield and Jefferson Railway / Annual Reports, 1886-1888. The railroad ended operations in 1976 and merged into Conrail along with several northeastern railroads that same year. VDOMDHTMLtml> Map of the Pennsylvania, Reading, and Lehigh Valley Railroads, and their connections. Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway | Train Rides in Jim Thorpe, PA Visit RBMNRR-passenger.com to see train trips originating from our other locations. (5 cu. Passengers were routed to the Pennsylvania Railroad's terminal and ferry. 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 original maps were never transferred to the Archives, but a book by book inventory of the film exists. The company controlled 30,000 acres (120km2) of coal-producing lands and was expanding rapidly into New York and New Jersey. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. 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. All structured data from the file namespace is available under the. 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. The LVRR began construction of a series of railroads to connect the Easton and Amboy line (Easton and Amboy Railroad) to Jersey City. 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. (10 cu. ft.), Mifflin and Centre County Railroad / Monthly Construction Accounts, 1862-1869. (6.05 cu. ft.), PRR / VP of Special Services / Water Company Files, 1905-1956. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate & Taxation / Reports on Coal and Coal Mines, 1861-1864. . Ad vertisement from shop plaindealing. (1.1 cu. ft.), Erie Railroad / Miscellaneous Land Records, [ca. 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. (1.3 cu. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Guide for the PRR with Extensive Map Including the Entire Route, 1855. (143 cu. and Executive Comm., 1853-1906. (.01 cu. [26] The railroad had survived the economic depression of 1873 and was seeing its business recover. ft.), Manor Real Estate and Trust Company / Indexes to Minutes, 1870-1954. These were FAs with steam generators, but they were not designated as FPA-2 units. Map of the Pennsylvania Schuylkill Valley Railroad, the predecessor to the Schuylkill Branch The abandoned Schuylkill Branch bridge over the Schuylkill River at Lower Pottsgrove, photographed in 2011 The Schuylkill Branch was a rail line owned and operated by the former Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad is a defunct railroad that operated in eastern Pennsylvania during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This was the second step toward establishment of a direct route from Waverly to Buffalo, the first being the acquisition of the Geneva, Ithaca & Athens Railroad. Fortunately, grain tonnage was increasing and the company transported large quantities from Buffalo to Philadelphia and other Eastern markets. [6], The LVRR immediately became the trunk line down the Lehigh Valley, with numerous feeder railroads connecting and contributing to its traffic. Passengers preferred the convenience of automobiles to trains, and airlines much later provided faster long-distance travel than trains. ft.), Philadelphia and Erie Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. (21 cu. Railroad Leader. of Law / Miscellaneous Interstate Commerce Commission Case Files, 1927-1935. 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. It also continued to grow and develop its routes in Pennsylvania. A daily freight train was put into operation leaving Easton in the morning and returning in the evening. ft.), PRR / President / Presidential Correspondence of M.W. ft.), Johnsonburg Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. (1 cu. Oil and gas were supplanting coal as the fuel of choice. See original listing. ft.), Penn Central Corp. / General Correspondence Files, 1955-1976. ft.), Northern Central Railway / Committee Minute Book, 1875-1914. (.02 cu. The economic depression following 1893 was harsh, and by 1897 the LVRR was in dire need of support. 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. The Lehigh Line still exists and still serves as a major freight railroad line that operates in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Since 1896 the LVRR had run an important and prestigious express train named the "Black Diamond" which carried passengers to the Finger Lakes and Buffalo. A long segment west from Van Etten Junction to Buffalo was included in the Conrail takeover, but was mostly torn-up not long afterward. The Penn Haven and White Haven Railroad allowed the LV to reach White Haven. 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. 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. (.1 cu. Welcome to the Lehigh Valley Railroad Modeler! 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]. In addition, we now hold a physical volume entitled Real Estate Atlas of the Western Pennsylvania Railroad, Butler Division, [ca. 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. ft.), West Lane Garage Company / Minute Book, 1934-1943. 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. (.05 cu. Bankruptcy trustee July 1970August 1974. ft.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / General Correspondence Files, 1972-1976. It was opened on June 11, 1855, between Easton, Pennsylvania, and Allentown, Pennsylvania, passing through Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The Lehigh Valley Railroad's original and primary route between Easton and Allentown was built in 1855. :-) Disclaimers: By 1931, the PRR controlled 51% of the LVRR stock. 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. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Secretary's Correspondence, 1860-1966 (1905-1966). During the early years, the line served as the body of the Lehigh Valley Railroad until the railroad either built, acquired, or merged other railroads into its system. The line became known as the Lehigh Line during Conrail ownership. Joy and Lancaster Railroad / Minute Book of the Committee on Real Estate and the Road, 1850-1855. 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. 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). ft.), Susquehanna Coal Company / Minute Books, 1869-1940. [34] The LVRR obtained a 5-year agreement to use the CNJ line to access the terminal, which opened in 1889. The railroad was chartered on August 2, 1847, and elected James Madison Porter its president on October 21. (.1 cu. linearly along particular rail lines. (.25 cu. 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"). Coverage includes locations in the states of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York. In order to handle the additional new ocean traffic, the LVRR created a large new pier at Constable Hook, which opened in 1915, and a new terminal at Claremont which opened in 1923. (.1 cu. of Purchases / General Correspondence and Confidential Files of C.D. An sample frame of this film appears to the right of this paragraph, though not all frames show the names of property owners. [17] In 1871, the entire line from Phillipsburg to Wilkes-Barre was leased to the CNJ. ft.), PRR / V.P. Proudly founded in 1681 as a place of tolerance and freedom. (.21 cu. Lehigh Gorge Trains are located at 1 Susquehanna Street, Jim Thorpe, PA 18229 #570-325-8485 . 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. (.11 cu. Additional passenger trains ran from Philadelphia to Scranton and westward. [13][35] Unfortunately, it overreached and in 1893 was unable to meet its obligations. 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. ft.), VP of Real Estate / Letter Press Books of W.H. Annual Report of the State Board of Assessors of the State of New Jersey, News Printing Co., 1889, p.85. The line is still owned and operated by the Norfolk Southern Railway and the line still runs from Port Reading Junction in Manville, New Jersey, to Penn Haven Junction in Lehigh Township, Carbon County, Pennsylvania.[52]. ft.) {#286m.254}. Photograph by Donald W. Furler, Furler-12-021-01 . [45], In 1944, the LVRR's gross revenues came close to $100,000,000 which was a milestone for the railroad.[1]. The LVRR shareholders received shares of the now independent Lehigh Valley Coal Company, but the railroad no longer had management control of the production, contracts, and sales of its largest customer. are Interested, 1962. ft.), North Penn Coal Company / Minute Book, 1913-1938. ft.), Chambersburg Land and Improvement Company / Minute Book, 1890-1905. ft.), Williamsport and Elmira Railroad / Annual Reports, 1856-1858. Ball, Chief Conveyancer and Benjamin W. Carskaddon, Assistant Real Estate Agent, 1876-1902. ft.), Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad / Contract Books, 1864-1891. 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. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Contract Book of George B. Roberts, 1869-1884. ft.), Kensington and Tacony Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. [citation needed]. On June 21, 1970, the Penn Central declared bankruptcy and sought bankruptcy protection. To support the expected increase in traffic, the wooden bridge over the Delaware River at Easton was also replaced by a double-tracked, 1,191-foot (363m) iron bridge.[23]. ft.), Western Pennsylvania Railroad / Minute Books, 1860-1903. (.1 cu. 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. (.1 cu. Parts. ft.), PRR / VP of Special Services / Penn Central Merger Files, 1963-1965. ft.), Valley Real Estate Company - Ledger, 1907-1922. In 1973, the United States Congress acted to create a bill to nationalize all bankrupt railroads which included the LV. Although the roads effectively ignored the Act and their sales agents continued to meet and set prices, the agreements were never effective for long. 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. ft.), Berkshire Land Company / Cash Book, 1945-1953. In the following years, the Pennsylvania quietly obtained more stock, both directly and through railroads it controlled, primarily the Wabash. To reach Wilkes-Barre, the LVRR began constructing an extension from White Haven, Pennsylvania, to Wilkes-Barre. Conrail maintained the line as a main line into the New York City area. Lehigh Valley Railroad; Discussion related to the Lehigh Valley Railroad and predecessors for the period 1846-1976. 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