In 1864, the LVRR began acquiring feeder railroads and merging them with its system. (.1 cu. From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. (297 cu. ft.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / Annual Statement of Charges and Credits to the Investment Account for Property (BV 589), 1917-1930. (1 cu. [1] Operations continued until the LVRR's bankruptcy in 1976. In 1941, the Pennsylvania placed its shares in a voting trust after reaching an agreement with the New York Central regarding the PRR's purchase of the Wabash. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Minute Books of the Road Committee, 1847-1948. Young, 1929-1943. In the years leading to 1973, the freight railroad system in the northeast of the U.S. was collapsing. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Pennsylvania Railroad and Long Island RR Directors' Inspection Trip Book, 1947. Lehigh Valley Railroad System Maps RAILFAN GUIDES HOME RAILROAD SIGNALS HOME More info at: http://www.lehighvalleyrr.com/ http://www.marjum.com/niagjct/index.html http://www.railroad.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=128&t=1907 I wonder what it is with the name CHUNK that "they" wanted to use it twice? (35 cu. 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.), Pittsburgh and Lake Erie / Railroad Annual Reports, 1967, 1969, 1972-1974, 1976-1977. 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.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / Property Schedules, (BV 634, 635 and 636), 1936-1941. Right-of-way agreements might be attached to or referenced in the chain of title (i.e. (.12 cu. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Minute Books of the Real Estate Committee, 1869-1918. Originally incorporated as the Delaware, Lehigh, Schuylkill and Susquehanna Railroad Company. 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. 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 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. [45], In 1944, the LVRR's gross revenues came close to $100,000,000 which was a milestone for the railroad.[1]. Size of this PNG preview of this SVG file: 800 600 pixels. 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.), Philadelphia and Erie Railroad / Agreement Book, 1853-1894. This is currently the last time the line has been downsized. Other RBMN Train Rides . are Interested, 1962. ft.), Valley Real Estate Company / Journal Entries, 1919. (.02 cu. (.2 cu. (1.25 cu. 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]. [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. 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. ft.), Erie-Lackawanna Railway / General Correspondence Files, 1953-1967, Erie Railroad / Land Record Books,[ ca 1831-1915]. the succession of recorded deeds). The Association of American Railroads, which opposed nationalization, submitted an alternate proposal for a government-funded private company. (3 cu. (.1 cu. ft.), Susquehanna Coal Company / Minute Books, 1869-1940. [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. how long the Rights-of-Way were for, when the track was laid, and when the time limit was or will be up. [47][note 1]. Congress reacted with the 1906 Hepburn Act, which among other things forbade railroads from owning the commodities that they transported. . 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. (.02 cu. ft.), Berkshire Land Company / Cash Book, 1945-1953. (.01 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]. . File history. [1], On May 17, 1879, Asa Packer, the company's founder and leader, died at the age of 73. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Library /Publicity Photographs, ca 1830-1960. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. Lehigh Valley Pennsylvania Railroad Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh This 5-railroad network will remain essentially unchanged for the first half of the 20th Century. (.1 cu. 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} . 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. (.05 cu. [1], Further rounds of acquisitions took place in 1868. (92 cu. 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. Railroad Leader. Eventually, the Easton and Amboy Railroad was absorbed into the parent Lehigh Valley Railroad. An sample frame of this film appears to the right of this paragraph, though not all frames show the names of property owners. (59 cu. ft.), Erie Railroad / Miscellaneous Land Records, [ca. 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). ft.), Pittsburgh, Chartiers and Yougheogheny Railway / Annual Reports, 1892-1910. [13] With these acquisitions, the LVRR obtained the right to mine coal as well as transport it. 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. A daily freight train was put into operation leaving Easton in the morning and returning in the evening. 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. Joy and Lancaster Railroad / Minute Book of the Committee on Real Estate and the Road, 1850-1855. In 1901, Morgan arranged to have the Packer Estate's holdings purchased jointly by the Erie, the Pennsylvania, the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, the DL&W and the CNJ, all companies in which Morgan had interests. 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. No comprehensive finding aid exists for these records. 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. For 25 years the Lehigh Canal had enjoyed a monopoly on downstream transportation and was charging independent producers high fees. Engineering Drawings, [ca.1886-1940 (bulk: 1915-1930)]{#311m.284} will be of interest. ft.), Buffalo Creek Railroad / Valuable Papers Files, 1868-1967. President Richard Nixon signed the Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973 into law. ft.), PRR / VP of Altoona Works / Record of Operating Expenses of the Juniata Shop, 1914-1918. The line became known as the Lehigh Line during Conrail ownership. ft.), Enola Realty Company / Minute Books, 1905-1931. 1902 - NYC introduces The 20th Century Limited. Morgan. Newly elected president Eben B. Thomas, formerly of the Erie, and his board of directors represented the combined interests of those railroads.[36]. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Post Office Files, 1923-1933. In 1875, the holdings were consolidated into the Lehigh Valley Coal Company, which was wholly owned by the LVRR. That project failed, but the lands were later used for the LVRR's own terminal in 1889. Another series relating to PRR real estate holdings, rights of way and agreements is the Valuable Papers File, [ca. The railroad then set its sights northward. Bankruptcy trustee July 1970August 1974. 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. [14], The 1870s witnessed commencement of extension of the LVRR in a new direction. (.1 cu. 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. (1 cu. 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 existing tracks from Manville to Newark became a new rail line and Norfolk Southern along with CSX own it under a joint venture. 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. Map of the Pennsylvania, Reading, and Lehigh Valley Railroads, and their connections. Lehigh Valley Railroad System Map.svg. The owners still owned the property, but the railroad was allowed to conduct agreed-upon activities on the swath in question. [43] The terms of the restructurings precluded dividend payments until 1953, when LVRR common stock paid the first dividend since 1931. The LVRR decided to expand more to the Northeastern New Jersey in order to reach its freight yards without using the CNJ main line. (21 cu. Fortunately, grain tonnage was increasing and the company transported large quantities from Buffalo to Philadelphia and other Eastern markets. 6 Replies 6377 Views by lvrr325 Fri Aug 28, 2015 3:20 pm: In 1870, the Lehigh Valley Railroad acquired trackage rights to Auburn, New York, on the Southern Central Railroad.[1]. (.1 cu. The first acquisitions were the Beaver Meadow Railroad and Coal Company, which included a few hundred acres of coal land, and the Penn Haven and White Haven Railroad. Pennsylvania. The LVRR, which had built coal docks in Perth Amboy when it built the Easton and Amboy in the 1870s, desired a terminal on the Hudson River close to New York City. (.4 cu. Conrail abandoned most of the route in New York State to Buffalo after 1976, considerably shortening the line. In many cases the Rights of Way were not perpetual, but were granted for, say, 99 years. (3.5 cu. (.1 cu. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / General Correspondence Files and Coal Mine Reports, 1930-1938. [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. [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. (1 cu. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Board Files: Green Sheet Leases, 1926-1957. The section between Allentown and Mauch Chunk opened on September 12. The line became known as the Lehigh Line during Conrail ownership. 1835-1925]. 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. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Annual Reports of Water Companies, 1914. Clement, 1935-1949. The former Lehigh Valley tracks between Manville, New Jersey, and Newark are operated separately by Conrail Shared Assets Operations as their own Lehigh Line. (.5 cu. The Easton and Amboy's operations were labeled the "New Jersey Division" of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. A final attempt to establish a coal cartel took place in 1904 with the formation of the Temple Iron Company. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Letter Press Books of J.C. Wilson, Assistant Chief Engineer and Real Estate Agent, 1876-1889. The South Basin terminal was used solely for freight, having docks and car float facilities. Ad vertisement from shop plaindealing. In 1928, he attempted to seat a new president and board. Following Federal legislation which stopped the operation of such service, the lake line was sold to private interests in 1920. 1906 Antique Lehigh Valley Railroad Map Vintage Lehigh Valley Railway Map Birthday Gift for Dad Anniversary 527 ad vertisement by plaindealing. [10] The LVRR recognized that its own continued prosperity depended on obtaining what coal lands remained. (17.5 cu. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Contract Book of George B. Roberts, 1869-1884. (9 cu. (1.5 cu. 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 / VP of Operation / Chief of Motive Power / Lines East Age Books (MP 308), ca 1900-1917. Cassat, 1893-1903. 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. 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. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Imprint File, 1904-1968. A pair of ALCO FA-2 FB-2 car body diesel-electric locomotives were also purchased to augment the PAs when necessary. [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. ft.), Manor Real Estate and Trust Company / Minute Books, 1870-1954. [4] All this changed in October 1851, when Asa Packer took majority control of the DLS&S. Although in 1870 the LVRR had invested in the 2-mile (3.2km) Buffalo Creek Railroad, which connected the Erie to the lakefront, and had constructed the Lehigh Docks on Buffalo Creek, it depended on the Erie Railroad for the connection from Waverly to Buffalo, New York.[9]. [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. 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. At the time, anthracite was transported by boat down the Lehigh River. 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 / Minute Book of the Road Committee, Finance Comm. That southern field held the largest reserves of anthracite in Pennsylvania and accounted for a large percentage of the total production. (.1 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. The Easton and Amboy was used as a connection to the New York metropolitan area, with a terminus in Jersey City, New Jersey. Keystone State. ft.), which was maintained by the Secretary's office. The Lehigh Valley Railroad remained in operation during the 1970 bankruptcy, as was the common practice of the time. These maps, bridge and structure drawings remains unprocessed. The Lehigh Valley Railroad's original and primary route between Easton and Allentown was built in 1855. ft.), Susquehanna, Bloomsburg, and Berwick Railroad / Minute Book, 1902-1918. 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. ft.), Manor Real Estate and Trust Company / Stock Transfer Book, 1889-1931. [39], Following the defeat of its plan, the D&H sold its stock to the Pennsylvania Railroad. Wilson, Chief Engineer, 1881-1884. ft.), VP of Real Estate / Letter Press Books of W.H. 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. (29 cu. 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. By controlling supply, the coal combination attempted to keep prices and profits high. (.1 cu. The original line retains its original route when it was first constructed and is served by Norfolk Southern Railway. [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. Annual Report of the State Board of Assessors of the State of New Jersey, News Printing Co., 1889, p.85. This took effect on February 4, 1961. [3], Little occurred between 1847 and 1851, save some limited grading near Allentown, Pennsylvania. In 1883, Hartshorne retired to allow Harry E. Packer, Asa's 32-year-old youngest son, to assume the Presidency. 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. (.11 cu. ft.), PRR / V.P. 1948: ALCO PA passenger diesels replace steam on all passenger runs. The economic depression following 1893 was harsh, and by 1897 the LVRR was in dire need of support. 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. (.1 cu. permission to lay track, run trains and do needed maintenance along a long, narrow swath. 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 [5], At Easton, the LVRR interchanged coal at the Delaware River where coal could be shipped to Philadelphia on the Delaware Division Canal or transported across the river to Phillipsburg, New Jersey, where the Morris Canal and the Central Railroad of New Jersey (CNJ) could carry it to the New York City market. Passengers were routed to the Pennsylvania Railroad's terminal and ferry. It was located along the Hamilton Street Bridge in Allentown. The line gave the LVRR a route into Pottsville, Pennsylvania, and the Schuylkill Valley coal fields.[32]. The hotel remained with the company until 1909, when it was bought by residents of the surrounding cottages. 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. ft.), PRR / VP of Special Services / Water Company Files, 1905-1956. 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. The purchase of the Penn Haven and White Haven was the first step in expanding to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. 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. (bridge still exists today. w/ Val. (.1 cu. ft.), Baltimore and Potomac / Blueprint Book of Proposed Revision of Line and Grades in Washington, D.C., undated. | Library of Congress Outline map of the middle Atlantic states showing the three major lines in different colors. 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. Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973, Pub.L. 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. (5 cu. LVRR Map 1 2016-08-10T14:17:31 . Paper or digital copies of the items on the list can then be ordered. [2] It was sometimes known as the Route of the Black Diamond, named after the anthracite it transported. 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. (.03 cu. (.25 cu. Finally, in 1889, the LVRR gained control of the Geneva, Ithaca, and Sayre Railroad and completed its line of rail through New York. ft.), Franklin Railroad Company / Minute Books, 1836-1853, 1859-1865. ft.), Berkshire Land Company / Journal and Ledger, 1939-1955. (3 cu. of Law / Miscellaneous Interstate Commerce Commission Case Files, 1927-1935. 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. ft.), PRR / VP of Special Services / Merger Testimony and Exhibits, 1962-1967. ft.), Northern Central Railroad / Mortgage of the Northern Central Railway to Wistar Morris and Josiah Bacon, Trustees, 1868. ft.), A publication by Thomas Townsend Taber (Thomas T. Taber III) entitled, PRR / Comptroller / Confidential Annual Reports of Affiliated Corporations, 1892-1959. ft.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / Record of Expenditures Under Authority of Forms 1416, ca 1917-1926. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Pamphlet Description of Corporations in which PRR and Subs. Ousting President Elisha P. Wilbur and several directors in 1897, the Morgan company installed W. Alfred Walter as president and seated its own directors. . (.02 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. In addition, we now hold a physical volume entitled Real Estate Atlas of the Western Pennsylvania Railroad, Butler Division, [ca. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / General Correspondence Files of the St. Lawrence Power Project, 1948-1954. [34] The LVRR obtained a 5-year agreement to use the CNJ line to access the terminal, which opened in 1889. 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. 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. 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.), Manor Real Estate and Trust Company / Ledgers, 1903-1925. ft.), Valley Real Estate Company / Cash Book, 1907-1922. (.15 cu. 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). [30] As a result of its leases and acquisitions, the Lehigh Valley gained a near-monopoly on traffic in the Finger Lakes region.
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