(21 cu. 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. 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. This company became an important factor in the movement of anthracite, grain and package freight between Buffalo, Chicago, Milwaukee, Duluth, Superior and other midwestern cities. ft.), PRR / VP of Finance / Treasurer / Treasurer's Cash Books, 1847-1863, 1865-1925. ft.), Bell's Gap Railroad / Annual Reports, 1873-1889. ft.), Pennsylvania and Midland Railroad / Court Proceedings, 1895-1899. (2 cu. The San Jos to Merced project section of the California high-speed rail system will provide a critical rail link between Silicon Valley and the Central Valley. The 23 miles between Mauch Chunk and White Haven through the Lehigh Gorge, now the D&L Trail, was opened in 1864. Cassatt and James McCrea, ca 1899-1913. 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. 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. No comprehensive finding aid exists for these records. 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 . 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. 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. 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. [13] With these acquisitions, the LVRR obtained the right to mine coal as well as transport it. ft.), Philadelphia and Erie Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. Initially, the LVRR contracted with the CNJ for rights from Roselle to Jersey City, but the LVRR eventually finished construction to its terminal in Jersey City over the Newark and Roselle Railway, the Newark and Passaic Railway, the Jersey City, Newark, and Western Railway, and the Jersey City Terminal Railway. Dates / Origin Date Issued: 1887 Place: Philadelphia? [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. 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. 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. ft.), Northern Central Railroad / Mortgage of the Northern Central Railway to Wistar Morris and Josiah Bacon, Trustees, 1868. Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission, Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps forPennsylvania, Aerial Photographs and Index of the 1940 Aerial Survey of Pennsylvania, 1937-1942. Construction of a rail line to the New York state line started immediately and, in 1867, the line was complete from Wilkes-Barre to Waverly, New York, where coal was transferred to the broad gauge Erie Railroad and shipped to western markets through Buffalo, New York. (.1 cu. In 1883 the railroad acquired land in northeast Pennsylvania and formed a subsidiary called The Glen Summit Hotel and Land Company. (297 cu. 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. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / General Correspondence Files of the St. Lawrence Power Project, 1948-1954. 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. ft.), PRR / VP of Special Services / Water Company Files, 1905-1956. He was also an enthusiastic member of the Society's modeling committee . ft.), A publication by Thomas Townsend Taber (Thomas T. Taber III) entitled, PRR / Comptroller / Confidential Annual Reports of Affiliated Corporations, 1892-1959. 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. (1.25 cu. 5 out of 5 stars (5,213) $ 19.50 FREE shipping Add to Favorites . (.1 cu. Wilson, Chief Engineer, 1881-1884. ft.), Manor Real Estate and Trust Company / Minute Books, 1870-1954. These engineering drawings consist primarily of maps and structure drawings, although other subjects such as bridges, grade crossings and equipments are also documented. 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]). The Lehigh Valley Railroad began providing service to Hemlock lake in 1895. (.01 cu. ft.), PRR / VP of Operation / Chief of Motive Power / Lines East Age Books (MP 308), ca 1900-1917. 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. ft.), Kensington and Tacony Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. ft.), PRR / Comptroller / General Correspondence Files, 1924-1964. (.3 cu. (.05 cu. (.12 cu. This is currently the last time the line has been downsized. 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. The L&S had been chartered in 1837 by the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company (the Lehigh Canal company) to connect the upper end of the canal at Mauch Chunk to Wilkes-Barre. ft.), Valley Real Estate Company - Ledger, 1907-1922. Abandoned Lines By mileage, no state comes close to the abandonments suffered in Pennsylvania, which now amounts to roughly 6,500 miles. [citation needed]. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Post Office Files, 1923-1933. [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]. 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). 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. ft.), Suquehanna, Bloomsburg, and Berwick Railroad - Ledger, 1902-1904. Finally in 1900, the LVRR purchased the National Docks Railway outright. Another series relating to PRR real estate holdings, rights of way and agreements is the Valuable Papers File, [ca. Today, this route continues as two lines, one that is considered the original line that served as the main line for the Lehigh Valley Railroad and the other that is considered a new line that was once part of the original line that served as the main line for the Lehigh Valley Railroad. (.1 cu. ft.), Enola Realty Company / Ledgers, 1905-1932. The owners still owned the property, but the railroad was allowed to conduct agreed-upon activities on the swath in question. In some cases (yards, stations, repair facilities, etc.) ft.), Bustleton Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. 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 original maps were never transferred to the Archives, but a book by book inventory of the film exists. (1 cu. Bankruptcy trustee July 1970August 1974. ft.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / List of Roadway Completion Reports (BV 586), 1919-1927. This page was last edited on 15 September 2020, at 21:11. (.1 cu. The Easton and Amboy was used as a connection to the New York metropolitan area, with a terminus in Jersey City, New Jersey. (.1 cu. The restructuring allowed the LVRR to extend the maturity of its mortgages, but it needed to repeat the process in 1950. (13 cu. [2][13] By 1893, the LVRR owned or controlled 53,000 acres (210km2) of coal lands. (3 cu. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Imprint File, 1904-1968. Conversely, the other railroads' obligations to pay those fees to the Penn Central were not waived. 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. By December 31, 1925, the railroad controlled 1,363.7 miles of road and 3,533.3 miles of track. ft.), West Chester Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. These were FAs with steam generators, but they were not designated as FPA-2 units. 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. [24] The marshalling yard is now the residential area known as Harbortown. 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. Morgan. Asa Packer was elected President of the Lehigh Valley Railroad on January 13, 1862. (.1 cu. (2 cu. (.1 cu. The hotel remained with the company until 1909, when it was bought by residents of the surrounding cottages. ft.), Germantown, Norristown, and Phoenixville Railroad / Minute Book, 1881-1886. The project section runs from the city of Santa Clara, through San Jos at Diridon Station to Gilroy, across the Pacheco Pass, and including the Central Valley Wye extending north to . (.5 cu. ft.), PRR / VP Eastern Region / Letter Books, 1924-1926. The Pennsylvania Railroad in 1962 requested ICC authorization to acquire complete control of the LVRR through a swap of PRR stock for LVRR and elimination of the voting trust that had been in place since 1941. 1948: ALCO PA passenger diesels replace steam on all passenger runs. (.3 cu. (12 cu. ft.), Manor Real Estate and Trust Company / Stock Transfer Book, 1889-1931. [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]. . Three months later the line branched out to the northwest past Allentown to Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, on September 12, 1855. how long the Rights-of-Way were for, when the track was laid, and when the time limit was or will be up. ft.), Valley Real Estate Company / Journal Entries, 1919. [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. 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. (.5 cu. ft.), Susquehanna Coal Company / Minute Books, 1869-1940. For 25 years the Lehigh Canal had enjoyed a monopoly on downstream transportation and was charging independent producers high fees. Lehigh Gorge Trains are located at 1 Susquehanna Street, Jim Thorpe, PA 18229 #570-325-8485 . Please note: There also exists an unprocessed series of PRR/Penn Central maps entitled: Architectural Drawings and Maps, ca 1818-1970 (1883-1965). Map of the Pennsylvania, Reading, and Lehigh Valley Railroads, and their connections. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Printed Abstracts of Title, 1869, 1875. Indicates major drainage, cities and towns, and names the railroads along the lines. It was followed by the "Catasauqua" 4-4-0 and "Lehigh" 4-6-0, which were also Norris & Sons engines. 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. 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. (1 cu. Cassat, 1893-1903. Congress reacted with the 1906 Hepburn Act, which among other things forbade railroads from owning the commodities that they transported. (.03 cu. (.1 cu. (.01 cu. Lehigh Valley Pennsylvania Railroad Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh This 5-railroad network will remain essentially unchanged for the first half of the 20th Century. (.25 cu. [30] As a result of its leases and acquisitions, the Lehigh Valley gained a near-monopoly on traffic in the Finger Lakes region. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / General Correspondence Files and Coal Mine Reports, 1930-1938. 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. By 1970, this had dwindled to 927 miles of road and 1963 miles of track. LVRR Map 1 2016-08-10T14:17:31 . In the following year, the LVRRa standard gauge railroadcompleted arrangements with the Erie Railroad, at that time having a six-foot gauge, for a third rail within the Erie mainline tracks to enable the LV equipment to run through to Elmira and later to Buffalo. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Pamphlet Description of Corporations in which PRR and Subs. 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. Approximately 350,000 tons of anthracite moved to Perth Amboy during that year for transshipment by water. It also built a passenger terminal in Buffalo in 1915. Post Conrail ownership and secondary lines. 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. 6 Replies 6377 Views by lvrr325 Fri Aug 28, 2015 3:20 pm: In 1883, Hartshorne retired to allow Harry E. Packer, Asa's 32-year-old youngest son, to assume the Presidency. Welcome to the Lehigh Valley Railroad Modeler! ft.), Pioneer Real Estate Company / Minute Book, 1946-1947. 1860-1878] (1 volume) {#286m.1525} which shows track layouts and property ownership along the tracks for what later became part of the Conemaugh Division of the PRR in northwestern Pennsylvania. 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. permission to lay track, run trains and do needed maintenance along a long, narrow swath. 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. [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. In 1928, he attempted to seat a new president and board. DeRuyter Val Map - info needed by Cactus Jack - Tue Aug 25, 2015 2:08 pm. (.02 cu. 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 line became known as the Lehigh Line during Conrail ownership. ft.), Frederick and Northern Railroad / Minute Book, 1873-1897. (1.5 cu. ft.), Leechburg Company / Minute Books, 1937-1954. the succession of recorded deeds). ft.) {#286m.254}. Although the roads effectively ignored the Act and their sales agents continued to meet and set prices, the agreements were never effective for long. (.2 cu. This series primarily represents agreements that the PRR entered into with individuals, companies, and local governments. Construction from Waverly to Buffalo was split into two projects, Waverly to Geneva, New York, and Geneva, which is located at the northern end of Seneca Lake), to Buffalo. 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. (.1 cu. (1 cu. ft.), PRR / VP of Operation / Chief of Motive Power / Condition of Frt. 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. (.03 cu. Leadership of the company transferred smoothly to Charles Hartshorne, who had been vice president under Packer. 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. 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. (.01 cu. ft.), Ridgeway and Clearfield Railroad / Minute Book, 1882-1911. The lists were constructed by doing word searches of the narrative series descriptions for the designated words: maps, tracks and real estate. ft.), Erie Railroad / Tax Registers, 1891-1915. ft.), Clearfield and Jefferson Railway / Annual Reports, 1886-1888. 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 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. 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. The LVRR was approved for such a restructuring in 1940 when several large mortgage loans were due. Construction commenced in 1872 as soon the Easton and Amboy was formed; coal docks at Perth Amboy were soon constructed, and most of the line from Easton to Perth Amboy was graded and rails laid. Ousting President Elisha P. Wilbur and several directors in 1897, the Morgan company installed W. Alfred Walter as president and seated its own directors. (1.1 cu. ft.), State Realty Company / Minute Book, 1907-1909. 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. (.0 cu. [17] In 1871, the entire line from Phillipsburg to Wilkes-Barre was leased to the CNJ. ft.), Berkshire Land Company / Cash Book, 1945-1953. Full Promotional Video: Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway 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]. 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. In 1856, the "E. A. Packer" 4-4-0 was purchased from William Mason of Taunton, Massachusetts. The Association of American Railroads, which opposed nationalization, submitted an alternate proposal for a government-funded private company. ft.), PRR / V.P. In 1882, the LVRR began an extensive expansion into New York from Waverly to Buffalo. At the time, anthracite was transported by boat down the Lehigh River. [26] The railroad had survived the economic depression of 1873 and was seeing its business recover. [1], Further rounds of acquisitions took place in 1868. (.1 cu. (.21 cu. It was opened on June 11, 1855, between Easton, Pennsylvania, and Allentown, Pennsylvania, passing through Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. 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.), PRR / Secretary / Board Files: Wire and Pipe Crossing Agreements, 1925-1957. (1.34 cu. (.1 cu. 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. It also continued to grow and develop its routes in Pennsylvania. (2.25 cu. (.3 cu. [10] The LVRR recognized that its own continued prosperity depended on obtaining what coal lands remained. You may be trying to access this site from a secured browser on the server. 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. The economic depression following 1893 was harsh, and by 1897 the LVRR was in dire need of support. 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 . By 1931, the PRR controlled 51% of the LVRR stock. 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. (.03 cu. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Letter Press Books of J.C. Wilson, Assistant Chief Engineer and Real Estate Agent, 1876-1889. 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. (.1 cu. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Minute Books of the Road Committee, 1847-1948. Then the CNJ opposed the LVRR's attempt to cross its line at Caven Point. (3 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. 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.
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