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. (.1 cu. In 1866, two years after the purchase of the Penn Haven and White Haven, the extension from White Haven to Wilkes-Barre opened.[1]. Young, 1929-1943. ft.), Pittsburgh and Lake Erie / Railroad Annual Reports, 1967, 1969, 1972-1974, 1976-1977. 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. Construction began in earnest in 1853, and the line opened between Easton and Allentown on June 11, 1855. ft.), Ridgeway and Clearfield Railroad / Minute Book, 1882-1911. ft.), PRR / VP Central Region / Blueprint Track Chart of Branch Lines, 1938. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Annual Reports and Data, 1920-1933. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Pennsylvania Railroad and Long Island RR Directors' Inspection Trip Book, 1947. 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). ft.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / Statements of Additions and Betterments (GA-8), 1918-1929, 1931-1932. [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. . 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. ft.), Philadelphia and Erie Railroad / Record of Track Material Loaned for Construction of Lumber Branches, 1895-1906. 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. 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. (5.6 cu. A daily freight train was put into operation leaving Easton in the morning and returning in the evening. ft.), Philadelphia and Erie Railroad / Minute Book of the Road Committee, Finance Comm. In the years leading to 1973, the freight railroad system in the northeast of the U.S. was collapsing. In the early part of October 1855, a contract was made with Howard & Co. of Philadelphia to do the freighting business of the railroad (except coal, iron, and iron ore). ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Lease and Agreement Book, 1858-1889. Photos not available for this variation. ft.), Susquehanna and Clearfield Railroad / Annual Report to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Minute Books of the Road Committee, 1847-1948. The Easton and Amboy was used as a connection to the New York metropolitan area, with a terminus in Jersey City, New Jersey. Morgan. (1 cu. (.1 cu. (.05 cu. Bridging Newark Bay proved difficult. By 1970, this had dwindled to 927 miles of road and 1963 miles of track. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Minute Books of the Real Estate Committee, 1869-1918. Paper or digital copies of the items on the list can then be ordered. Cassat, 1893-1903. Finally in 1887 the two railroads reached a settlement, and construction of the LVRR's Jersey City freight yard began. At first the incident was considered an accident; a long investigation eventually concluded that the explosion was an act of German sabotage, for which reparations were finally paid in 1979. Working in conjunction with the Allentown & Auburn Railroad and the Lehigh Valley Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society the three groups plan to restore the switcher back to operating condition wearing its original L&NE colors and number. (59 cu. Indicates major drainage, cities and towns, and names the railroads along the lines. 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. These tracks were laid and the Easton and Amboy Railroad was opened for business on June 28, 1875, with hauling coal. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Annual Reports of Water Companies, 1914. (11.9 cu. ft.), North Penn Coal Company / Minute Book, 1913-1938. The LVRR operated several named trains in the post-World War II era. 1850-1967] (157 cu. [14], The 1870s witnessed commencement of extension of the LVRR in a new direction. 93-236, 87 Stat. Bankruptcy trustee from August 1974 to April 1976. The Lehigh Line still exists and still serves as a major freight railroad line that operates in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. ft.), Penn Central Corp. / General Correspondence Files, 1955-1976. . :-)). These were FAs with steam generators, but they were not designated as FPA-2 units. 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. permission to lay track, run trains and do needed maintenance along a long, narrow swath. The line connects with Conrail Shared Assets Operations's Lehigh Line (the new rail line) and CSX Transportation's Trenton Subdivision at Port Reading Junction in Manville, New Jersey, and connects with the Reading Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad's Reading Division at Packerton, Pennsylvania, and Reading Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad's Lehigh Division at Lehighton, Pennsylvania (originally M&H Junction near Old Penn Haven, Pennsylvania). [30] As a result of its leases and acquisitions, the Lehigh Valley gained a near-monopoly on traffic in the Finger Lakes region. ft.), Susquehanna Coal Company / Minute Books, 1869-1940. 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. (1.25 cu. Lehigh Gorge Trains are located at 1 Susquehanna Street, Jim Thorpe, PA 18229 #570-325-8485 . ft.), Mifflin and Centre County Railroad / Monthly Construction Accounts, 1862-1869. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Rules and Regulations, 1858-1925. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for LV Lehigh Valley Railroad Depot (train station) at Andreas, Schuylkill Co., PA at the best online prices at eBay! The majority of passenger equipment is believed to have been scrapped some time after February 1961. (.01 cu. 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.), PRR / VP of Operation / Chief of Motive Power / Miscellaneous Motive Power Blueprints and Related Materials, ca 1900-1968. 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 The line hosts approximately twenty-five trains per day, with traffic peaking at the end of the week. [citation needed]. the succession of recorded deeds). ft.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / Record of Expenditures Under Authority of Forms 1416, ca 1917-1926. [26] The railroad had survived the economic depression of 1873 and was seeing its business recover. Newly elected president Eben B. Thomas, formerly of the Erie, and his board of directors represented the combined interests of those railroads.[36]. ft.), Cherry Tree and Dixonville Railroad / Minute Books, 1903-1943. (.15 cu. (.25 cu. The Easton and Amboy had already completed large docks and facilities for shipping coal at Perth Amboy upon an extensive tract of land fronting the Arthur Kill. (.1 cu. The Geneva, Ithaca & Athens Railroad passed into the hands of the LVRR in September 1876, which extended from the New York state line near Sayre, Pennsylvania, to Geneva, New York, a distance of 75 miles. (1.1 cu. (.4 cu. ft.), Bell's Gap Railroad / Annual Reports, 1873-1889. File usage on other wikis. (.4 cu. By the 1960s, railroads in the East were struggling to survive. Following Loomis' death in 1937, the presidency went to Loomis' assistant Duncan J. Kerr,[40] but in 1940 he was replaced by Albert N. Williams,[41] and the road came under the influence of the PRR. ft.), Johnsonburg Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. It opened a hotel in Glen Summit, Pennsylvania, called the Glen Summit Hotel to serve lunch to passengers traveling on the line. (.02 cu. ft.), Manor Real Estate and Trust Company / Indexes to Minutes, 1870-1954. The banking giant J. P. Morgan stepped in to refinance the LVRR debt and obtained control of the railroad in the process. ft.), State Realty Company / Minute Book, 1907-1909. Map of the Abandoned Rails of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. [31], In Pennsylvania, the Lehigh scored a coup by obtaining the charter formerly held by the Schuykill Haven and Lehigh River Railroad in 1886. 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. [43] The terms of the restructurings precluded dividend payments until 1953, when LVRR common stock paid the first dividend since 1931. ft.), Bustleton Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. 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.), Pittsburgh, Chartiers and Yougheogheny Railway / Annual Reports, 1892-1910. (.1 cu. 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. (.4 cu. ft.), Berkshire Land Company / Cash Book, 1945-1953. 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]). F. A . 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"). [13][35] Unfortunately, it overreached and in 1893 was unable to meet its obligations. (.21 cu. Pennsylvania. ft.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / List of Roadway Completion Reports (BV 586), 1919-1927. 1948: ALCO PA passenger diesels replace steam on all passenger runs. (.2 cu. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Imprint File, 1904-1968. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Notes for Centennial History of PRR Company, ca 1946-1949. [24] The marshalling yard is now the residential area known as Harbortown. ft.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / General Correspondence Files, 1972-1976. [1][19][bettersourceneeded][20]. (1 cu. On June 21, 1970, the Penn Central declared bankruptcy and sought bankruptcy protection. These locomotives were also used in freight service during and after the era of LVRR passenger service. Customers naturally resented the actions of the cartel, and since coal was critical to commerce, Congress intervened in 1887 with the Interstate Commerce Act that forbade the roads from joining into such pools. In 1892, the Reading Railroad thought it had a solution instead of attempting to maintain agreements among the coal railroads, it would purchase or lease the major lines and bring them into a monopoly. Photograph by Donald W. Furler, Furler-12-021-01 . 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. ft.), PRR / Comptroller / General Correspondence Files, 1924-1964. (.02 cu. All structured data from the file namespace is available under the. (10 cu. 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 (.25 cu. Small party privacy and fantastic views! ft.), Northern Central Railway / Committee Minute Book, 1875-1914. Originally incorporated as the Delaware, Lehigh, Schuylkill and Susquehanna Railroad Company. (.6 cu. ft.), Ridgeway and Clearfield Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. These operators include: The Lehigh Line was the Lehigh Valley Railroad's first rail line and served as the main line. 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. Full Promotional Video: Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway (.02 cu. Coal, steel, passengers, and various other freight could be carried via the Lehigh Valley Railroad to either the Great Lakes or . The Maple Leaf and the John Wilkes were the last operating long-distance trains, terminated that day. 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.), PRR / V.P. 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. ft.), PRR / VP of Altoona Works / Record of Operating Expenses of the Juniata Shop, 1914-1918. The section between Allentown and Mauch Chunk opened on September 12. [17] In 1871, the entire line from Phillipsburg to Wilkes-Barre was leased to the CNJ. 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. In 1883 the railroad acquired land in northeast Pennsylvania and formed a subsidiary called The Glen Summit Hotel and Land Company. (.1 cu. Keystone State. railroad archivist. 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. 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 . ft.), PRR / Secretary / Histories of Various Companies, ca 1934-1965. ft.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / Property Schedules, (BV 634, 635 and 636), 1936-1941. ft.), PRR / VP of Operation / Chief of Motive Power / Lines East Age Books (MP 308), ca 1900-1917. (5 cu. 1951: September 14: Last day of steam on the Lehigh Valley Railroad as. ft.), Philadelphia and Erie Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. 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. Names Alter, R. H. Pennsylvania Railroad. Approximately 350,000 tons of anthracite moved to Perth Amboy during that year for transshipment by water. Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission, Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps forPennsylvania, Aerial Photographs and Index of the 1940 Aerial Survey of Pennsylvania, 1937-1942. 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. Additionally, a segment from Geneva to Victor, New York, later cut back to Shortsville, New York, to Victor, remained with the Lehigh Valley Estate under subsidized Conrail operation. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Board Files: BFA Series, ca 1905-1960. ft.), Erie-Lackawanna Railway / General Correspondence Files, 1953-1967, Erie Railroad / Land Record Books,[ ca 1831-1915]. 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. ft.), Western Pennsylvania Railroad / Minute Books, 1860-1903. For more and perhaps more easily obtainable maps and aerial photographs, you may also want to consult the following sources: 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. ft.), Valley Real Estate Company / Journal Entries, 1919. 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. 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. That project failed, but the lands were later used for the LVRR's own terminal in 1889. 1906 Antique Lehigh Valley Railroad Map Vintage Lehigh Valley Railway Map Birthday Gift for Dad Anniversary 527 ad vertisement by plaindealing. The Reading, now out of receivership, purchased the company and brought the other coal railroads into the partnership, with the Reading owning 30%, the LVRR 23%, the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western 20%, CNJ 17%, Erie 6%, and New York, Susquehanna and Western 4 percent. (3 cu. Most of the other remaining Lehigh Valley track serves as branch lines, or has been sold to shortline and regional operators. (.1 cu. Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps. ft.), Suquehanna, Bloomsburg, and Berwick Railroad - Ledger, 1902-1904. The original line retains its original route when it was first constructed and is served by Norfolk Southern Railway. 1902 - NYC introduces The 20th Century Limited. Passengers were routed to the Pennsylvania Railroad's terminal and ferry. Other RBMN Train Rides . Clement, 1935-1949. (1 cu. ft.), PRR / VP of Eastern Region / Locality Files, 1918-1936. Order #20 of ICC, 1916-1921. Abandoned Rails of the Lehigh Valley Railroad LV. (.2 cu. . (25 cu. 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. Packer brought additional financing to the railroad, installed Robert H. Sayre as chief engineer, and renamed the company the "Lehigh Valley Railroad." By 1859 it had 600 coal cars and 19 engines. N Scale Lehigh Valley locomotive by Life-Like. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Board Files: Green Sheet Leases, 1926-1957. [6], The LVRR immediately became the trunk line down the Lehigh Valley, with numerous feeder railroads connecting and contributing to its traffic. Bankruptcy trustee July 1970August 1974. In 1866, the LVRR purchased acquired the Lehigh and Mahanoy Railroad (originally the Quakake Railroad) and the North Branch Canal along the Susquehanna River, renaming it the Pennsylvania and New York Canal & Railroad Company (P&NY). [8] The purchasing of the North Branch Canal saw an opportunity for a near monopoly in the region north of the Wyoming Valley. (.1 cu. ft.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / Valuable Papers Files, 1850-1966. The first leg of the construction to Jersey City was the Roselle and South Plainfield Railway in 1888 which connected with the CNJ at Roselle for access over the CNJ to the Hudson River waterfront in Jersey City. (143 cu. The Lehigh Valley Railroad's original and primary route between Easton and Allentown was built in 1855. On April 1, 1976, the LVRR, including its main line, was merged into the U.S. government's Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail) ending 130 years of existence and 121 years of operation of the LVRR. [50] The "3R Act," as it was called, provided interim funding to the bankrupt railroads and defined a new "Consolidated Rail Corporation" under the AAR's plan. Congress reacted with the 1906 Hepburn Act, which among other things forbade railroads from owning the commodities that they transported. (.5 cu. (.1 cu. (.25 cu. Creator: Lehigh Valley Railroad Company Quanitities: 6 cubic feet. [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 remained in operation during the 1970 bankruptcy, as was the common practice of the time. (.05 cu. ft.), Germantown, Norristown, and Phoenixville Railroad / Minute Book, 1881-1886. - Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway . The company controlled 30,000 acres (120km2) of coal-producing lands and was expanding rapidly into New York and New Jersey. (1 cu. ft.), Manor Real Estate and Trust Company / Journals, 1903-1925. (17 cu. (12 cu. 5 out of 5 stars (5,213) $ 19.50 FREE shipping Add to Favorites . Conrail maintained the line as a main line into the New York City area. 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.), Susquehanna Coal Company / Leases, 1883-1939. 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]. I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license: (SVG file, nominally 800 600 pixels, file size: 447 KB), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:JimIrwin, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Lehigh_Valley_Railroad_System_Map.svg&oldid=460606778, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. By December 31, 1925, the railroad controlled 1,363.7 miles of road and 3,533.3 miles of track. The railroad also published a monthly magazine promoting travel on the train called the "Black Diamond Express Monthly". It was located along the Hamilton Street Bridge in Allentown. (3 cu. (5 cu. 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. At Three Bridges, New Jersey, in Readington Township, the line interchanges with Black River and Western Railroad. Among them: The primary passenger motive power for the LVRR in the diesel era was the ALCO PA-1 car body diesel-electric locomotive, of which the LVRR had fourteen. (.15 cu. (.11 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. In 1864, the LVRR began acquiring feeder railroads and merging them with its system. 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. 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. (.1 cu. ft.), Riverfront Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. In 1866, Master Mechanic Alexander Mitchell designed the "Consolidation", 1945: The first Lehigh Valley Railroad mainline diesels arrive in the form of. 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 cu. 6 Replies 6377 Views by lvrr325 Fri Aug 28, 2015 3:20 pm: (.1 cu. The owners still owned the property, but the railroad was allowed to conduct agreed-upon activities on the swath in question. [1] In the 1870s the LVRR acquired other large tracts of land starting at 13,000 acres (53km2) in 1870,[9] with an additional of 5,800 acres (23km2) in 1872,[12] and turned its eye toward expansion across New Jersey all the way to the New York City area. ft.), PRR / VP of Special Services / Merger Testimony and Exhibits, 1962-1967. Maps of North America. [53] The only daylight New York-Buffalo train, the "Black Diamond", was discontinued in 1959. The LVRR found that the route of the Morris Canal was impractical for use as a railroad line, so in 1872 the LVRR purchased the dormant charter of the Perth Amboy and Bound Brook Railroad which had access to the Perth Amboy, New Jersey, harbor, and added to it a new charter, the Bound Brook and Easton Railroad. In 1875, the LVRR financed the addition of a third rail to the Erie Railroad main line so that cars could roll directly from colliery to the port at Buffalo. 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. 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]. During routine screening by Transportation Security Administration agents, Muffley's bag set off an alarm indicating it contained suspicious items, according to a criminal complaint. (3 cu. 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. ft.), Berkshire Land Company / Journal and Ledger, 1939-1955. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Board of Directors' Roll Books, 1918-1967.
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