The restructuring allowed the LVRR to extend the maturity of its mortgages, but it needed to repeat the process in 1950. 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]. ft.), Nescopec Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. 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. 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. 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. 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. ft.), PRR / VP of Operation / Chief of Motive Power / Condition of Frt. In 1870, the Lehigh Valley Railroad acquired trackage rights to Auburn, New York, on the Southern Central Railroad.[1]. ft.), Erie Railroad / Tax Registers, 1891-1915. - Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway . (.01 cu. Abandoned Lines By mileage, no state comes close to the abandonments suffered in Pennsylvania, which now amounts to roughly 6,500 miles. (29 cu. ft.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / Statements of Additions and Betterments (GA-8), 1918-1929, 1931-1932. ft.), PRR / V.P. ft.), PRR / President / Clement / Eastern Region Coordinating Committee Files, 1933-1936. It passes through the approximately 5,000-foot Pattenburg Tunnel in West Portal, New Jersey, along its route. (.6 cu. ft.), A publication by Thomas Townsend Taber (Thomas T. Taber III) entitled, PRR / Comptroller / Confidential Annual Reports of Affiliated Corporations, 1892-1959. Language: ft.), Philadelphia and Erie Railroad / Agreement Book, 1853-1894. ft.), Northern Central Railroad / Committee Minute Book, 1875-1914. 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. It also continued to grow and develop its routes in Pennsylvania. 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. The production of the entire Middle Coal Field came to the LVRR over feeders to the Beaver Meadow: the Quakake Railroad, the Catawissa, Williamsport and Erie Railroad, the Hazleton Railroad, the Lehigh Luzerne Railroad and other smaller lines. A final attempt to establish a coal cartel took place in 1904 with the formation of the Temple Iron Company. Then the CNJ opposed the LVRR's attempt to cross its line at Caven Point. 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. (.11 cu. In 1927, Leonor Fresnel Loree, president of the Delaware and Hudson Railroad, had a vision for a new fifth trunk line between the East and West, consisting of the Wabash Railroad, the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway, and the LVRR. (.2 cu. [4] All this changed in October 1851, when Asa Packer took majority control of the DLS&S. The tracks from Dupont to Mehoopany became a new rail line called the Susquehanna Branch. (3 cu. (.25 cu. The Lehigh Valley Railroad began providing service to Hemlock lake in 1895. (1.5 cu. 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. Budd Rail Diesel Car service would continue on a branch line (Lehighton-Hazleton) for an additional four days. (2006) The Chandler Acts of 1938-9 provided a new form of relief for railroads, allowing them to restructure their debt while continuing to operate. System Map (1940) An official, 1940 system map of the Lehigh & New England Railroad. The Depression had been difficult for all the railroads, and Congress recognized that bankruptcy laws needed revision. Small party privacy and fantastic views! Size of this PNG preview of this SVG file: 800 600 pixels. (.3 cu. (.1 cu. 1902 - NYC introduces The 20th Century Limited. 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. (.2 cu. The coal railroads had begun in 1873 to form pools to regulate production and set quotas for each railroad. 1 en:Hoboken Manufacturers' Railroad; 2 en:Bay Shore Connecting Railroad; 3 en:Whippany River Railroad ft.), Enola Realty Company / Property Sales Accounts, 1905-1914. From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. [34] The LVRR obtained a 5-year agreement to use the CNJ line to access the terminal, which opened in 1889. Construction began in earnest in 1853, and the line opened between Easton and Allentown on June 11, 1855. (35 cu. The majority of passenger equipment is believed to have been scrapped some time after February 1961. Map of the Abandoned Rails of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. Railroad Leader. ft.), Susquehanna Coal Company / Leases, 1883-1939. (2 cu. (.15 cu. (.1 cu. [26] The railroad had survived the economic depression of 1873 and was seeing its business recover. These locomotives were also used in freight service during and after the era of LVRR passenger service. At Phillipsburg, New Jersey, the Belvidere Delaware Railroad connected to Trenton, New Jersey. ft.), Valley Real Estate Company / Cash Book, 1907-1922. ft.), Manor Real Estate and Trust Company / Minute Books, 1870-1954. It was followed by the "Catasauqua" 4-4-0 and "Lehigh" 4-6-0, which were also Norris & Sons engines. The purpose of the Temple Iron Company was to lock-up independent coal production and control the supply. Following Federal legislation which stopped the operation of such service, the lake line was sold to private interests in 1920. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Board Files: Wire and Pipe Crossing Agreements, 1925-1957. The train arrives from far away and passes the camera, while workers are waving their handkerchiefs.[37]. Conrail maintained the line as a main line into the New York City area. ft.), PRR / VP Eastern Region / Letter Books, 1924-1926. Finally in 1900, the LVRR purchased the National Docks Railway outright. (.1 cu. (.03 cu. Photos not available for this variation. [2] It was sometimes known as the Route of the Black Diamond, named after the anthracite it transported. 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President of the Lehigh Valley System Through War, He Recently Retired", Lehigh Valley Railroad Historical Society, Luzerne County PAGenWeb (One Hundred Years of The Lehigh Valley), Lehigh Valley pages on Western NY Railroad Archive, Beyond Steel: An Archive of Lehigh Valley Industry and Culture, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lehigh_Valley_Railroad&oldid=1141748396. ft.), Ridgeway and Clearfield Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. (.1 cu. The hotel remained with the company until 1909, when it was bought by residents of the surrounding cottages. 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. Bridging Newark Bay proved difficult. Proudly founded in 1681 as a place of tolerance and freedom. of F. Thomson and A.J. Other RBMN Train Rides . The LVRR was approved for such a restructuring in 1940 when several large mortgage loans were due. ft.), PRR / Comptroller / Cash Books for the Trust Created for Purchase of Securities, 1878-1939. 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. Cassat, 1893-1903. Conrail abandoned most of the route in New York State to Buffalo after 1976, considerably shortening the line. 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. Maps of North America. Lehigh Valley Railroad System Map.svg. ft.), PRR / President / Presidential Correspondence of M.W. (1 cu. (.1 cu. The LVRR operated several named trains in the post-World War II era. In 1871, the LVRR leased the Morris Canal, which had a valuable outlet in Jersey City on the Hudson River opposite Manhattan. (3.5 cu. (.1 cu. The railroad was chartered on August 2, 1847, and elected James Madison Porter its president on October 21. 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 . It was opened on June 11, 1855, between Easton, Pennsylvania, and Allentown, Pennsylvania, passing through Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Lehigh Valley Railroad Company records, 1870-1962. ft.), Williamsport and Elmira Railroad / Annual Reports, 1856-1858. ft.), Peoria and Eastern Railway / Annual Reports, 1928-1936, 1938-1961, 1963-1966, 1970-1973, 1976. Post Conrail ownership and secondary lines. Indicates major drainage, cities and towns, and names the railroads along the lines. (9 cu. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Guide for the PRR with Extensive Map Including the Entire Route, 1855. Congress reacted with the 1906 Hepburn Act, which among other things forbade railroads from owning the commodities that they transported. Although the roads effectively ignored the Act and their sales agents continued to meet and set prices, the agreements were never effective for long. Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway | Train Rides in Jim Thorpe, PA Visit RBMNRR-passenger.com to see train trips originating from our other locations. 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 1890s were a period of turmoil for the LVRR. [47][note 1]. The followingarethe primary series of railroad map records that are processed and readily available for use: For track maps of the Erie and D, L & W lines,seeTrack Maps of the Erie Railroad and the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, circa 1917-1976, Series {#300m164}. 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. ft.), PRR / VP of Purchase / General Correspondence and Confidential Files of C.D. 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. w/ Val. (297 cu. 1951: September 14: Last day of steam on the Lehigh Valley Railroad as. Lehigh Gorge Trains are located at 1 Susquehanna Street, Jim Thorpe, PA 18229 #570-325-8485 . (17 cu. ft.), Erie-Lackawanna Railway / General Correspondence Files, 1953-1967, Erie Railroad / Land Record Books,[ ca 1831-1915]. Lehigh Valley Pennsylvania Railroad Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh This 5-railroad network will remain essentially unchanged for the first half of the 20th Century. 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 two most popular reasons for wishing to consult railroad-related land records are property ownership investigations and historical research. 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.), PRR / VP of Special Services / Penn Central Merger Files, 1963-1965. ft.), Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad / Contract Books, 1864-1891. Due to declining passenger patronage, the Lehigh Valley successfully petitioned the Interstate Commerce Commission to terminate all passenger service. It opened a hotel in Glen Summit, Pennsylvania, called the Glen Summit Hotel to serve lunch to passengers traveling on the line. Original file (SVG file, nominally 800 600 pixels, file size: 447 KB). By the 1960s, railroads in the East were struggling to survive. 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. [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.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Survey Books and Legal Papers of the Pennsylvania Canal Company, 1857-1922. In order to document their corporate valuations to the ICC, American railroad companies had to submit detailed maps of their real estate holdings. 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. (.02 cu. ft.), Kensington and Tacony Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. ft.), Germantown, Norristown, and Phoenixville Railroad / Minute Book, 1881-1886. ft.), PRR / Comptroller / General Correspondence Files, 1924-1964. 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. Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co. [16] After the LVRR opened its line, the Lehigh & Susquehanna extended to Phillipsburg, New Jersey, and connected with the CNJ and the Morris and Essex Railroad in 1868. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Reports on Coal and Coal Mines, 1861-1864. ft.), Pittsburgh and Lake Erie / Railroad Annual Reports, 1967, 1969, 1972-1974, 1976-1977. (.4 cu. Annual Report of the State Board of Assessors of the State of New Jersey, News Printing Co., 1889, p.85. VDOMDHTMLtml> Map of the Pennsylvania, Reading, and Lehigh Valley Railroads, and their connections. (.55 cu. 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. (.25 cu. Lehigh Valley Railroad; Discussion related to the Lehigh Valley Railroad and predecessors for the period 1846-1976. On April 1, 1976, major portions of the assets of the bankrupt Lehigh Valley Railroad were acquired by Conrail. ft.), Finley Company / Minute Books, 1945-1959. ft.), PRR / Secretary / One Hundredth Anniversary Historical Files, ca 1876-1946. 6 Replies 6377 Views by lvrr325 Fri Aug 28, 2015 3:20 pm: 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. 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. :-) Disclaimers: This map looks West, so the Lehigh Valley main line enters at the bottom of the page and heads up into Buffalo, while the Niagara Falls branch line runs off to the right toward Tonawanda (no airport yet! ft.), Manor Real Estate and Trust Company / Journals, 1886-1929. 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. ft.), West Lane Garage Company / Minute Book, 1934-1943. 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. 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. This is currently the last time the line has been downsized. Please enable scripts and reload this page. ft.), Chambersburg Land and Improvement Company / Minute Book, 1890-1905. to Glen Summit Springs [11] Over the next dozen years the railroad acquired other large tracts of land: 13,000 acres (53km2) in 1870,[9] 5,800 acres (23km2) in 1872,[12] and acquisition of the Philadelphia Coal Company in 1873 with its large leases in the Mahanoy basin. 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]). Now under ownership of the Norfolk Southern Railway, the Lehigh Line's route is now from Port Reading Junction in Manville, New Jersey, to Penn Haven Junction in Lehigh Township, Pennsylvania. ft.), PRR / VP of Operation / Chief of Motive Power / Letter Books, 1926. (.02 cu. This page was last edited on 15 September 2020, at 21:11. In 1896 the very early film Black Diamond Express was produced by Thomas A. Edison's company Kinetoscope. 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. No comprehensive finding aid exists for these records. ft.), PRR / VP of Special Services / Merger Testimony and Exhibits, 1962-1967. ft.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / Record of Expenditures Under Authority of Forms 1416, ca 1917-1926. 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. Young, 1929-1943. 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. 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. [30] As a result of its leases and acquisitions, the Lehigh Valley gained a near-monopoly on traffic in the Finger Lakes region. (3 cu. ft.), Berkshire Land Company / Journal and Ledger, 1939-1955. This series primarily represents agreements that the PRR entered into with individuals, companies, and local governments. The LVRR decided to expand more to the Northeastern New Jersey in order to reach its freight yards without using the CNJ main line. [42], Following the Great Depression, the railroad had a few periods of prosperity, but was clearly in a slow decline. ft.), Cherry Tree and Dixonville Railroad / Minute Books, 1903-1943. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Annual Reports of Water Companies, 1914. 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. (1 cu. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate & Taxation / Reports on Coal and Coal Mines, 1861-1864. Ousting President Elisha P. Wilbur and several directors in 1897, the Morgan company installed W. Alfred Walter as president and seated its own directors. (.3 cu. The 23 miles between Mauch Chunk and White Haven through the Lehigh Gorge, now the D&L Trail, was opened in 1864. Lehigh Valley Railroad Station was a beautiful building that dated back to 1890. (21 cu. Approximately 350,000 tons of anthracite moved to Perth Amboy during that year for transshipment by water. (5 cu. ft.), Berkshire Land Company / Cash Book, 1945-1953. ft.), Pioneer Real Estate Company / Minute Book, 1946-1947. plaindealing From shop plaindealing. Keystone State. (2 cu. (3 cu. 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. (.1 cu. A daily freight train was put into operation leaving Easton in the morning and returning in the evening. (.1 cu. The Lehigh Valley Railroad's original and primary route between Easton and Allentown was built in 1855. (.1 cu. (.2 cu. (5.6 cu. (.1 cu. (1.25 cu. ft.). 5 out of 5 stars (5,213) $ 19.50 FREE shipping Add to Favorites . (2 cu. 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. The Anthracite Railroads Historical Society maintains this website in the memory of Ed Schaller, a kind man with a wonderful personality, who served many years as treasurer on the Board of Directors. File usage on other wikis. Coal, steel, passengers, and various other freight could be carried via the Lehigh Valley Railroad to either the Great Lakes or . 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. 1906 Antique Lehigh Valley Railroad Map Vintage Lehigh Valley Railway Map Birthday Gift for Dad Anniversary 527 ad vertisement by plaindealing. In the years leading to 1973, the freight railroad system in the northeast of the U.S. was collapsing. In total, today's railroads in Pennsylvania operate just over 5,000 route miles, which is well under half the state's all-time high of more than 11,500 miles. Passengers were routed to the Pennsylvania Railroad's terminal and ferry. [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. Lehigh Valley Terminal DL&W Train Shed Metro Rail Stations: Light Rail Rapid Transit System Miami Street Freight House / Franklin Terminals Belt Line Railroad: Daniel Zornick,, Beltline Railroad Illustrated essay Map: 1894 City of Buffalo Atlas map (online Sept. 2020) Miscellany: Robert Holder, History of Early Railroads in Buffalo ft.), Philadelphia and Erie Railroad / Minute Book of the Road Committee, Finance Comm. In 1928, he attempted to seat a new president and board. ft.), PRR / President / Subject Index to Presidential Corr. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Pamphlet Description of Corporations in which PRR and Subs. The Association of American Railroads, which opposed nationalization, submitted an alternate proposal for a government-funded private company. 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][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. ft.), PRR / VP of Eastern Region / Locality Files, 1918-1936. ft.), Riverfront Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. ft.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / General Correspondence Files, 1972-1976. [2][13] By 1893, the LVRR owned or controlled 53,000 acres (210km2) of coal lands. Oil and gas were supplanting coal as the fuel of choice. 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. (.1 cu. 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. ft.), PRR / VP of Operation / Chief of Motive Power / Lines East Age Books (MP 308), ca 1900-1917. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Letter Press Books of George W.I. Digitized content from the collections of Cornell University Library ft.), PRR / Secretary / Pennsylvania Railroad and Long Island RR Directors' Inspection Trip Book, 1947. ft.), Franklin Railroad Company / Minute Books, 1836-1853, 1859-1865. Another series relating to PRR real estate holdings, rights of way and agreements is the Valuable Papers File, [ca. Ad vertisement from shop plaindealing. James Madison Porter was the first President of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. ft.), Wilcox Railroad Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. By 1931, the PRR controlled 51% of the LVRR stock. ft.), Manor Real Estate and Trust Company / Stock Transfer Book, 1889-1931. This route became important to Conrail as an alternate route to avoid Amtrak's former PRR/PC Northeast Corridor electrified route. (.1 cu. ft.), Western Pennsylvania Railroad / Minute Books, 1860-1903. [14], The 1870s witnessed commencement of extension of the LVRR in a new direction.
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