Approximately 350,000 tons of anthracite moved to Perth Amboy during that year for transshipment by water. ft.), which was maintained by the Secretary's office. ft.), State Realty Company / Minute Book, 1907-1909. 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. ft.), PRR / VP of Operation / Chief of Motive Power / Lines East Age Books (MP 308), ca 1900-1917. 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. (.1 cu. 1948: ALCO PA passenger diesels replace steam on all passenger runs. permission to lay track, run trains and do needed maintenance along a long, narrow swath. While the records are primarily legal documents rather than maps, information provided includes the effective date, purpose, names of interacting parties, terms, financial arrangements, and description of principle right or property conveyed. The former Lehigh Valley tracks between Manville, New Jersey, and Newark are operated separately by Conrail Shared Assets Operations as their own Lehigh Line. 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. Coverage includes locations in the states of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York. (.3 cu. In 1866, Master Mechanic Alexander Mitchell designed the "Consolidation", 1945: The first Lehigh Valley Railroad mainline diesels arrive in the form of. ft.), PRR / VP of Special Services / Merger Testimony and Exhibits, 1962-1967. (1.25 cu. The railroad then set its sights northward. (bridge still exists today. [17] In 1871, the entire line from Phillipsburg to Wilkes-Barre was leased to the CNJ. ft.), Valley Real Estate Company / Cash Book, 1907-1922. In 1883, Hartshorne retired to allow Harry E. Packer, Asa's 32-year-old youngest son, to assume the Presidency. The LVRR's Newark and Roselle Railway in 1891 brought the line from Roselle into Newark, where passengers connected to the Pennsylvania Railroad. ft.), PRR / VP of Law / Riot Docket and Ejectment Suits, 1877-1895. 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). 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 In 1856, the "E. A. Packer" 4-4-0 was purchased from William Mason of Taunton, Massachusetts. ft.), Ridgeway and Clearfield Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. (2.25 cu. (.5 cu. (.02 cu. (.0 cu. (.11 cu. On January 7, 1853, the railroad's name was changed to Lehigh Valley Railroad. ft.), Manor Real Estate and Trust Company / Property Ledger, 1886-1916. linearly along particular rail lines. (29 cu. In 1882, the LVRR began an extensive expansion into New York from Waverly to Buffalo. The Lehigh Valley Terminal Railway was a Lehigh Valley Railroad company organized in 1891 through the consolidation of the companies that formed the Lehigh Valley's route from South Plainfield through Newark to Jersey City via its bridge across Newark Bay.Until 1895, when the Greenville and Hudson Railway was constructed, the Lehigh Valley depended on the National Docks Railway to reach the . ft.), Pennsylvania and North Western Railroad / Annual Reports, 1890-1901. (6.05 cu. In pursuit of that strategy, the 1868 purchases of the Hazleton Railroad and the Lehigh Luzerne Railroad brought 1,800 acres (7.3km2) of coal land to the LVRR, and additional lands were acquired along branches of the LVRR. ft.), Enola Realty Company / Ledgers, 1905-1932. (1 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. ft.), Germantown, Norristown, and Phoenixville Railroad / Minute Book, 1881-1886. [6], The LVRR immediately became the trunk line down the Lehigh Valley, with numerous feeder railroads connecting and contributing to its traffic. [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. 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. Finally in 1887 the two railroads reached a settlement, and construction of the LVRR's Jersey City freight yard began. 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. 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. [15] Asa Packer purchased additional land at the canal basin in support of the New Jersey West Line Railroad, which he hoped to use as the LVRR's terminal. 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. Names Alter, R. H. Pennsylvania Railroad. (.3 cu. ft.), Pittsburgh and Lake Erie / Railroad Annual Reports, 1967, 1969, 1972-1974, 1976-1977. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Contract Book of George B. Roberts, 1869-1884. 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. 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: ft.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / Property Schedules, (BV 634, 635 and 636), 1936-1941. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Rules and Regulations, 1858-1925. Keystone State. ft.), PRR / VP Central Region / Blueprint Track Chart of Branch Lines, 1938. (.4 cu. (.01 cu. ft.), PRR / President / Presidential Correspondence of W.W. Atterbury, 1925-1935. 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. (.11 cu. ft.), Manor Real Estate and Trust Company / Journals, 1903-1925. (1 cu. Paper or digital copies of the items on the list can then be ordered. ft.), PRR / VP of Operation / Chief of Motive Power / Condition of Frt. :-)). Lehigh Gorge Trains are located at 1 Susquehanna Street, Jim Thorpe, PA 18229 #570-325-8485 . (11 cu. 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. (152 cu. (.3 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. ft.), Katharine Water Company / Minute Book, 1904-1925. [10] The LVRR recognized that its own continued prosperity depended on obtaining what coal lands remained. This is currently the last time the line has been downsized. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Notes for Centennial History of PRR Company, ca 1946-1949. The series listed below contain scattered information and/or maps of PRR and Penn Central real estate holdings in Manuscript Group 286. (.5 cu. Wilson, Chief Engineer, 1881-1884. The Penn Haven and White Haven Railroad allowed the LV to reach White Haven. The LVRR strove throughout the 1880s to acquire its own route to Jersey City and to the Jersey City waterfront. (.4 cu. 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]. 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. (1.1 cu. It opened a hotel in Glen Summit, Pennsylvania, called the Glen Summit Hotel to serve lunch to passengers traveling on the line. 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. This series primarily represents agreements that the PRR entered into with individuals, companies, and local governments. Most of the other remaining Lehigh Valley track serves as branch lines, or has been sold to shortline and regional operators. Lehigh Valley Railroad; Discussion related to the Lehigh Valley Railroad and predecessors for the period 1846-1976. [1], The length of the line from Mauch Chunk to Easton was 46 miles of single track. The building shutdown in 1961 and was demolished. Ad vertisement from shop plaindealing. ft.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / Valuable Papers Files, 1850-1966. 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. 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. These tracks were laid and the Easton and Amboy Railroad was opened for business on June 28, 1875, with hauling coal. (17 cu. (.25 cu. It also continued to grow and develop its routes in Pennsylvania. File. railroad archivist. [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.), Harrisburg, Portsmouth, Mt. It passes through the approximately 5,000-foot Pattenburg Tunnel in West Portal, New Jersey, along its route. 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. 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.), PRR / VP of Special Services / Water Company Files, 1905-1956. 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). The 1880s continued to be a period of growth, and the LVRR made important acquisitions in New York, expanded its reach into the southern coal field of Pennsylvania which had hitherto been the monopoly of the Reading, and successfully battled the CNJ over terminal facilities in Jersey City. ft.), PRR / VP of Eastern Region / Locality Files, 1918-1936. ft.), PRR / President / Subject Index to Presidential Corr. 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. ft.), PRR / VP of Special Services / Merger Studies, 1950-1970. 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. 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. [2][13] By 1893, the LVRR owned or controlled 53,000 acres (210km2) of coal lands. (.2 cu. 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. It was followed by the "Catasauqua" 4-4-0 and "Lehigh" 4-6-0, which were also Norris & Sons engines. The LVRR was approved for such a restructuring in 1940 when several large mortgage loans were due. 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. 1835-1925]. ft.), VP of Real Estate / Letter Press Books of W.H. (2.25 cu. The route across Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Oak Island Yard remains important to the Norfolk Southern Railway and CSX Transportation today, the only two Class 1 railroads that are based in the Eastern United States. From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. 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. Original file (SVG file, nominally 800 600 pixels, file size: 447 KB). (.03 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). 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. System Map (1940) An official, 1940 system map of the Lehigh & New England Railroad. Ended: Mar 02, 2023. Countries. (1 cu. The line became known as the Lehigh Line during Conrail ownership. 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. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Annual Reports of Water Companies, 1914. (21 cu. 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. 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. 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. File usage on other wikis. Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission, Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps forPennsylvania, Aerial Photographs and Index of the 1940 Aerial Survey of Pennsylvania, 1937-1942. ft.), Erie Railroad / Miscellaneous Land Records, [ca. 1850-1967] (157 cu. 6 Replies 6377 Views by lvrr325 Fri Aug 28, 2015 3:20 pm: ft.), Bell's Gap Railroad / Annual Reports, 1873-1889. The South Basin terminal was used solely for freight, having docks and car float facilities. This allowed the line's eastbound grade to be reduced and a shorter route for handling through traffic established. 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.), Nescopec Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. (1.25 cu. Creator: Lehigh Valley Railroad Company Quanitities: 6 cubic feet. The railroad was chartered on August 2, 1847, and elected James Madison Porter its president on October 21. Ball, Chief Conveyancer and Benjamin W. Carskaddon, Assistant Real Estate Agent, 1876-1902. Abandoned Lines By mileage, no state comes close to the abandonments suffered in Pennsylvania, which now amounts to roughly 6,500 miles. 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. In 1883 the railroad acquired land in northeast Pennsylvania and formed a subsidiary called The Glen Summit Hotel and Land Company. of Law / Miscellaneous Interstate Commerce Commission Case Files, 1927-1935. ft.), Valley Real Estate Company / Minute Book, 1907-1922. The Vosburg Tunnel was completed and opened for service on July 25, 1886. (.25 cu. [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. [44] In 1957, the LVRR again stopped dividends. (.5 cu. ft.), PRR / VP of Purchase / General Correspondence and Confidential Files of C.D. 1905 - Hojack swing bridge built at Charlotte. The Lehigh Line still exists and still serves as a major freight railroad line that operates in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. [47][note 1]. Summary Outline map of the middle Atlantic states showing the three major lines in different colors. ft.), Susquehanna Coal Company / Leases, 1883-1939. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Board Files: BFA Series, ca 1905-1960. 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. ft.), Frederick and Northern Railroad / Minute Book, 1873-1897. (.1 cu. (.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. Leadership of the company transferred smoothly to Charles Hartshorne, who had been vice president under Packer. He was also an enthusiastic member of the Society's modeling committee . (1 cu. (.05 cu. Please enable scripts and reload this page. (12 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. (2 cu. [30] As a result of its leases and acquisitions, the Lehigh Valley gained a near-monopoly on traffic in the Finger Lakes region. The section between Allentown and Mauch Chunk opened on September 12. 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. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Library /Publicity Photographs, ca 1830-1960. United States (except New York) States. (.2 cu. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Guide for the PRR with Extensive Map Including the Entire Route, 1855. ft.), Wilcox Railroad Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. (2 cu. Lehigh Valley Railroad. [43] The terms of the restructurings precluded dividend payments until 1953, when LVRR common stock paid the first dividend since 1931. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Letter Press Books of George W.I. (.1 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. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Imprint File, 1904-1968. VDOMDHTMLtml> Map of the Pennsylvania, Reading, and Lehigh Valley Railroads, and their connections. [1][19][bettersourceneeded][20]. ft.), Girard Point Storage / Record of Deeds, 1881-1896. ft.), North Penn Coal Company / Minute Book, 1913-1938. In 1866, two years after the purchase of the Penn Haven and White Haven, the extension from White Haven to Wilkes-Barre opened.[1]. An sample frame of this film appears to the right of this paragraph, though not all frames show the names of property owners. of F. Thomson and A.J. Photo by Doug Lilly. [1], On May 17, 1879, Asa Packer, the company's founder and leader, died at the age of 73. [1] The Maple Leaf and the John Wilkes were the last operating long-distance trains, terminated that day. (.1 cu. For 25 years the Lehigh Canal had enjoyed a monopoly on downstream transportation and was charging independent producers high fees. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Pamphlet Description of Corporations in which PRR and Subs. 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 purpose of the Temple Iron Company was to lock-up independent coal production and control the supply. It was opened on June 11, 1855, between Easton, Pennsylvania, and Allentown, Pennsylvania, passing through Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. ft.), Leechburg Company / Minute Books, 1937-1954. 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]. The LVRR decided to expand more to the Northeastern New Jersey in order to reach its freight yards without using the CNJ main line. the succession of recorded deeds). ft.), Valley Real Estate Company / Journal Entries, 1919. ft.), Peoria and Eastern Railway / Annual Reports, 1928-1936, 1938-1961, 1963-1966, 1970-1973, 1976. Conrail maintained the line as a main line into the New York City area. (.1 cu. [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. 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. Indicates major drainage, cities and towns, and names the railroads along the lines. By 1859 it had 600 coal cars and 19 engines. V2 en:Roselle and South Plainfield Railway. [42], Following the Great Depression, the railroad had a few periods of prosperity, but was clearly in a slow decline. File usage on Commons. These maps, bridge and structure drawings remains unprocessed. 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. ft.), Manor Real Estate and Trust Company / Minute Books, 1870-1954. ft.), Pioneer Real Estate Company / Minute Book, 1946-1947. (25 cu. The majority of passenger equipment is believed to have been scrapped some time after February 1961. [34] The LVRR obtained a 5-year agreement to use the CNJ line to access the terminal, which opened in 1889. Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973, Pub.L. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Board Files: Wire and Pipe Crossing Agreements, 1925-1957. (1.34 cu. (.2 cu. (.4 cu. 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. (.02 cu. [18] For most of its length, it ran parallel to the LVRR. Then the CNJ opposed the LVRR's attempt to cross its line at Caven Point. 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]. In the following years, the Pennsylvania quietly obtained more stock, both directly and through railroads it controlled, primarily the Wabash. The two roads had entered a shared trackage agreement in this area in 1965 to reduce costs, as both had parallel routes from Wilkes-Barre virtually all the way to metropolitan New York, often on adjoining grades through Pennsylvania. Finally, in 1889, the LVRR gained control of the Geneva, Ithaca, and Sayre Railroad and completed its line of rail through New York. Size of this PNG preview of this SVG file: Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents. Morgan. (3.5 cu. (.1 cu. Young, 1929-1943. Several combinations occurred, but each fell apart as one road or another abrogated its agreement. 1 en:Hoboken Manufacturers' Railroad; 2 en:Bay Shore Connecting Railroad; 3 en:Whippany River Railroad Coal, steel, passengers, and various other freight could be carried via the Lehigh Valley Railroad to either the Great Lakes or . The line later expanded past Allentown to Lehigh Valley Terminal in Buffalo and past Easton to New York City, bringing the Lehigh Valley Railroad to these metropolitan areas. [53] The only daylight New York-Buffalo train, the "Black Diamond", was discontinued in 1959. 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 company was a subsidiary of the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company (LC&N), but for much of its lifetime leased by the Central Railroad of New Jersey.It was founded in 1837 to carry coal from the North Branch Division of the Pennsylvania Canal to the . (.15 cu. 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]. Canal, 1901. (2 cu. 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.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / Statements of Additions and Betterments (GA-8), 1918-1929, 1931-1932. Full Promotional Video: Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway ft.), Pittsburgh, Chartiers and Yougheogheny Railway / Annual Reports, 1892-1910. The lists were constructed by doing word searches of the narrative series descriptions for the designated words: maps, tracks and real estate. (297 cu. ft.), Susquehanna, Bloomsburg, and Berwick Railroad / Minute Book, 1902-1918. (1.5 cu. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Board Files: Green Sheet Leases, 1926-1957. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Post Office Files, 1923-1933. ft.), West Lane Garage Company / Minute Book, 1934-1943. The Association of American Railroads, which opposed nationalization, submitted an alternate proposal for a government-funded private company. 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.

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