an RS-11 and a wide yellow stripe GP9 to my LV diesel roster for a total of seven. Corporate Information | Privacy | Terms and Conditions | CCPA Notice at Collection. Westbound freight at Rochester Junction with the Bicentennial Caboose #1776. The Lehigh Valley Railroad's original and primary route between Easton and Allentown was built in 1855. A Box car and Flat car now sit at this location. Lehigh Valley railroad looking East at Rochester Junction, 1973. 2 would be out of service. ); Erie Railroad Magazine, March, 1905; Santa Fe (AT&SF) Magazine, December, 1906; Rock Island Magazine, July, 1907; The Pere Marquette, June, 1909; The North Western (Chicago & North Western) from at least 1911;The MK&T, March, 1913; Milwaukee (Road) Employes Magazine, April, 1913; Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Employes Magazine, 1913; Baltimore & Ohio Magazine, May, 1913; Illinois Central Magazine, July, 1913; Canadian National Railways Magazine, January, 1915; New York Central Magazine, April, 1920; Union Pacific Magazine, January, 1922; Great Western (C&GW) Magazine, February, 1922; Pullman News, May, 1922; Missouri Pacific Magazine, about May, 1923; Detroit, Toledo & Ironton News, about May, 1923; Maine Central, January, 1924. A&K front end loader parked at NY Rt. Bridge still stands and is part of the Lehigh Valley trail. ! Photograph by Donald W. Furler, Furler-12-021-01 . Road has been repaved and rails removed on the road, signals still in place, MT 2 removed years earlier. The depression not only weakened the railroad financially but decreasing anthracite demand further hurt its bottom line. Built in Lehigh Valley shops in 1888: 4-4-0 1: 262778: LV 390: 2/1916 . Only show this user . The signal in distance is Quaker Interlocking. While many private railroad shops had the machinists, boilermakers, electricians and heavy shop facilities to produce their own locomotives (and many did just that), the majority of steam locomotives and virtually all diesels were produced by the major builders. Lehigh Valley eastbound Apollo crossing 3 track bridge over Honeoye Creek, just west of Rochester Junction, 1974. Aside from family stories, how does one go about finding information on Joe's career through company archives or other materials? |LV by Jame Mack Longtime Mendon Foundation fan and volunteer Mark Skipworth has graciously agreed to work with some pre-eminent Lehigh Valley Railroad photographers, allowing us to share some of their remarkable photographs with us. Once again, though, their availability today can be very limited. Number: 201 - Railroad: City of Prineville RR - Status: Active Location: Prineville, OR - Type: Lehigh Valley RR style Photo date: 9/2004 - Build Date: 1945 Retired: n/a This caboose was originally used by the Lehigh Valley Railroad as their # 95043, but is now owned by the City of Prineville Railroad. 251 crossing in Mendon, NY on January 31, 1974. Links are provided to articles on modeling specific freight cars which can be found in the Modeling Freight Cars pages. The demolition of the Clover Street Lehigh Valley RR overpass. A&K Pettibone at the Lehigh Valley Railroad West Bloomfield road grade crossing in Mendon NY. Morgan's firm remained in control long after his death, during which time the LV was a well-managed, profitable operation. Guardrails still in place. Originally incorporated as the Delaware, Lehigh, Schuylkill and Susquehanna Railroad Company. 432 dropped its fire on September the 14th, 1951, number 5212 hung on to life a little longer until December 12, the following year; unfortunately, the locomotive was scrapped, and no LV steam locos were saved for posterity. Jersey City - Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania - Buffalo/Niagara Falls, New York, Mountain Top - Avoca - Pittston Junction, Pennsylvania, Sayre, Pennsylvania - Fair Haven, New York, Penn Haven Junction - Hazleton - Mt. |John Wilkes Conrail using the Rochester branch at this time. Lehigh Valley RS3 #215 and RS2 #213 lead an eastbound freight over the Erie Lackawanna as the train crosses the Chenango River at Binghamton, New York in February, 1971. The Lehigh Valley Railroad passenger station in Pittston was being torn down in this photo from 1964, but that doesn't diminish the role the building played in Pittston's past. station, 24 April 1973. So, its motto, Route Of The Black Diamond, October, 1977. 2015. Also included in these issues were several detailed career profiles and photos of hundreds of Erie employees. Today, nearly the entire western half of the LV is gone and what remains is operated by the Reading & Northern and Conrail successor, Norfolk Southern. 1) The Company. Train originated at the former E-L Exchange St. yard. Its first connection to the Finger Lakes region was in 1871. Originally incorporated as the Delaware, Lehigh, Schuylkill and Susquehanna Railroad Company. Information from both types of rosters are included on the Erie Railroad page, and some others are referenced in the links below. North East Rails Clint Chamberlin. Great Northern. Keywords 2014 - 2023 Anthracite Railroads Historical Society, Inc. . The name "Wyoming" was selected. The Lehigh Valley Railroad was a railroad company in the northeastern United States primarily used to haul anthracite coal, incorporated on April 21, 1846 in Pennsylvania as the the Delaware, Lehigh, Schuylkill and Susquehanna Railroad Company. With the success of the Lehigh Valley, Packer became a multi-millionaire and donated 115 acres in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania along with $500,000 to construct an institution of higher learning in the field of engineering. My handwriting is the writing at the top [in the 1974 & 1975 schedules] next to the symbols which say Daily (exc Sat) and etc.If I had to guess, I think the other notes on the schedule pages may belong to Steve Adik [VP Transportation]. Lehigh Valley Railroad Modeler Freight Schedules & Locomotive Rosters Freight Train Schedules, transcribed from ETT #2, 9-27-53 (8K PDF file*) Source: Ralph Heiss Freight Train Schedules, 1-27-1955 (68K PDF file*) Source: PSA MG-274** Freight Train Schedules, 6-16-1955 (63K PDF file*) Source: PSA MG-274** The last regular Rochester Branch passenger service to Lima was discontinued on August 9, 1937. Conrail local EX-1 working at ex Lehigh Valley Railroad Rochester Jct. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Original Slide LV Lehigh Valley ALCO C628 Snowbirds 626 & 3 Cleveland OH 1976 at the best online prices at eBay! The L&NE had a very tumultuous history prior to its final organization in 1895 due to its small size, few markets served, and circuitous main line. Industrial The SP crane that had been picking up scrap broke down so it and the cars it was towing were picked up by MR-2. Introduced pool service with the Nickel Plate Road This approach span was removed in the early 1980s. GitHub export from English Wikipedia. The bridge is still in use and is part of the Lehigh Valley trail. Over 2 million railroad and train related photographs from all over the US. If you look closely, you can see the interlocking signals, all red, at Quaker interlocking, which is by the curve. American-Rails.com collection. Lehigh Valley Railroad local MR-1 crossing Mile Square Road east of Mendon, NY on April 12, 1973. Back to home page Return to top. Number 568 is leading here. Thanks go not just to Mark, but also to photographers Paul Templeton, Jim Crosby, John Marshall, Rick Rubino, Richard Pearson, Doug Morgan, David J. Monte Verde, Christopher Smith, Charles Woolever, and Ron Amberger, all who have graciously agreed to have their images included here. Rochester Junction, 1960s. View is railroad west, and the tracks were gone on the other side of Plains Road by this time. This was the very last PLB-5 prior to the Conrail takeover. Town of Mendon work crew removing the rails and ties on the Lehigh Valley mainline at Old Dutch Road grade crossing in October, 1977. Train is Westbound. This photo was published in. Lehigh Valley Railroad at Mendon NY, Looking eastbound. Building behind the train was an ice house. While the surge in wartime traffic during the 1940s helped right the ship this was not enough to stabilize the LV's growing financial problems. Lehigh Valley Railroad 4-8-4 #5204 takes on water at Rochester Junction, 1950. Realizing it needed to cut expenses and increase efficiency when, where, and however possible the railroad quickly dieselized its motive power fleet with models ranging from almost every manufacturer. Lehigh Valley Railroad Company (1849-1962) Lehigh Valley Railroad Company (1870-1962) Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company (1909-1954) Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad (Historical Society) Missouri Pacific Railroad (1948, 1966) Missouri Pacific Railroad (Historical Society) Monon Railroad (1851-1971) Lehigh Valley Slide, Lehigh Valley Railroad Photograph, CNW Slide, Pocket Slide Rule Collectible . As part of the merger the LV was offered to either Norfolk & Western or Chesapeake & Ohio, both profitable systems, as a means of maintaining competition in the Northeast (each had connections to the LV at Buffalo). This is now the end of the Lehigh Valley Trail on the Rochester branch in Henrietta. Today, there are tens of thousands of miles scattered throughout the country. A&K Railroad materials truck removing rail from the Lehigh Valley Genesee River bridge at Wadsworth Junction, Rush NY, December 1977. Eighteen of the 28 were the famous "pups" that operated on the Hazleton branch. Train is on the Rochester Branch. March 30, 1976. If you are researching the Frisco Railroad, you can access excerpts from about 500 employee records that were saved from the landfill by clicking here. Grafton & Upton. 2. Rush-Mendon Road in Mendon, looking west. It was then acquired by banking mogul J.P. Morgan in 1897 who went on to purchase the holdings from the Packer estate, ending their involvement in the company. One good source for information can be the employee magazines that many roads published for their workers. Map of the Abandoned Rails of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. The infrastructure is owned by SEDA-COG JRA. Lehigh Valley Photographic Roster. D&H lightning stripe corporate scheme), 318 / DH 7318 > GTI/D&H 224 > D&H 7305 > CP 7305, 319 / DH 7319 > GTI/D&H 225 > D&H 7306 > STLH 7306 > CP 7306, 320 / DH 7320 > GTI/D&H 226 > D&H 7307 > CP 7307, 321 / DH 7321 > GTI/D&H 227 > scrapped in early 1990's due to wreck damage, 322 / DH 7322 > GTI/D&H 228 > D&H 7309 > CP 7309, 323 / DH 7323 > GTI/D&H 229 > D&H 7310 > CP 7310, 325 / DH 7325 > GTI/D&H 231 > D&H 7312 > CP 7312, 405 / DH 405 > IHRC 310 > Mohawk Hudson & Andirondak 310 > SL 301-405, 411 / DH 411 > AM 411 > Indiana Hi-Rail 311 > AM 68, 414 / DH 414 > Southern Railroad of New Jersey (as LV 414). 1969 and July/Aug./Sept. View is east. Pitchers: B/T: HT: WT: DOB: Status: MLB 40-man: Mark . Note that search results for some last names are truncated to the first 5 letters. The Windy City was the ultimate nexus for eastern carriers, albeit only four systems ever extended that far west (Erie, Baltimore & Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York Central). In 1891 it opened service to Newark, just across the Hackensack River from Jersey City, where it constructed the large Oak Island Yard. The Lehigh Valley Railroad logo. Green Mountain. 251 in Mendon, NY on October 25, 1973. LV by John W. Campbell Asa Packer's greats philanthropic endeavor was the establishment of Lehigh University, chartered in 1865 and named for the railroad. Looking for more shots of LV passenger cars and trains? The number of cars on the LV roster is taken from the ORERs for that month ("-" means the cars were not yet on the roster, and "0" means all had been retired by that date). That being said,strict government regulations, which plagued the entire industry, certainly aided in its downfall. Speaking of the Lackawanna, the National Park Service's Steamtown National Historic Site in Scranton, PA is in the process of building an extensive database of DL&W employees, based on its archival collection of over 400 boxes of DL&W, Erie and EL papers. Here is a photo that depicts A&K pulling rail from the trestle that led up to the bridge that went over the Erie Railroad, Genesee River, and Pennsylvania Railroad on the Lehigh Valley mainline. Grand Trunk Western. When it was formally opened on May 20, 1896, the new state-of-the-art station replaced a sparse wooden station near the same site. After a brief wait, along came this eastbound led by an ABA set of F-7's. The train wasn't moving particularly fast but it was rocking noticeably from side to side. The view is railroad west. Lehigh Valley Wreck on Phillips Road bridge over the old NYC Auburn line. Hazleton Branch, October 1, 1938 . Paul Templeton photo, Lehigh Valley Railroad train BNW-3, Westbound, about to go under the Clover Street bridge, which had D&H Alco PA units 16 and 19 in the power consist. The local came into RJ as BPL-6. Summer, 1976. Train is Lehigh Valley RM2 and is tied down in a small yard that was just off the Rochester Branch. There very various subsidiaries comprising this project, which later collectively became known as the Lehigh Valley Terminal Railway. Smoke still rising from what was left on April 24, 1973. Lehigh Valley Railroad locomotives at Rochester Junction, January 20, 1973, late afternoon. If you are researching active or abandoned corridors you might want to check out the United States Geological Survey's (USGS) Historical Topographic Map Explorer. The system had been designed to 6-foot, "broad gauge" (or "Erie gauge" as it liked to say) believing that it held advantages in safety, increased tonnage, and as a deterrent against interchange. Lehigh Valley train ME 1 at Rochester Junction, March 11, 1976. One idea involved merging the LV, Reading, CNJ, and Erie Lackawanna into a secondary giant as a Conrail competitor while another theory proposed having the profitable N&W and Chessie System (C&O, B&O, and Western Maryland) acquire segments of the Reading (B&O) and EL (N&W) to reach New York with government subsidies/loans as an incentive. A climate activist threw pink paint on a woolly mammoth exhibit in the Royal Museum of British Columbia to protest the government's inaction on climate change. The station had burned to the ground a year before. Reproduction or redistribution in any form without express written permission is This clinic describes the use of insurance and railroad maps, historic photographs, equipment diagrams, published drawings of rolling stock, and equipment registers to build a model railroad representing the Lehigh Valley Railroad in the period before 1900. Don Marshall standing at the crossover at Rochester Junction, 1967. Ex-PC 5461; assigned CR 5486, but retired before it was renumbered, Ex-PC 5569 < nee PRR 8445; to CR 9920 > D-L 211(2nd), #4240 & 4243 sold to Kyle 4240 & 4243 > Mcer 4240 & 4243 > #4243 later sold to ADIX 4243, To NS 2881(2nd)-2884(2nd) > NS 5655, 5516, 5627, 5659, To RBMN 2396, WIMX 2778 & WIMX 2779 > WIMX 2779 to VULX 2779, Built as F3A but upgraded to F7A standard in the 1950s, Built as F3B but upgraded to F7B standard in the 1950s, #633 and 636 were retired before they got their CR numbers, Acton Limestone 60, RGEP 10 & Warner Sand & Gravel > #60 & 10 sold to Indusmin Quarries 60 & PSR 2 > #2 sold to SP 1905, These 300-hp locos had no model designation; ex-Alco Demonstrator 301 & 303; #301 to Crushed Stone 102, Ex-Utah Copper 600; re=#d to LV 99. 7. Lehigh Valley Railroad local RM-2 with a caboose hop at Mendon, NY June, 1972. Old main track no. Also see Conrail listings. Valley Steam Classes A-K (After 1905). This Pier Station had a full length covered pier, and carfloats would be moored directly to the pier for the loading and unloading of freight directly from the freight cars into and out of the pier shed. Lehigh Valley Railroad Sources: Biographical Directory of the Railway Officials, 1922 Poor's Manual of Railroads, 1902 Alumni and students of Lehigh University Biographical Directory of the Railway Officials of America, 1901 Biographical Directory of the Railway Officials of America, 1893 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehigh_Valley_Railroad Photos for personal use only. A cold February 8, 1973. However, each declined due to the LV's light traffic, enormous debt, and declining physical condition. This move sent shock waves not only within financial circles but also throughout the railroad industry. The EB is about to clear, and the WB is getting instructions from the dispatcher. Lehigh Valley Railroad westbound looking to Mendon NY. Westbound Lehigh Valley train at Rochester Junction, 1970. As the gauge of 4 feet, 8 1/2 inches became the popular choice the NY&E later dropped its 6-foot width in favor of the industry standard. The Lehigh Valley Railroad was another of the many Northeastern carriers built to move anthracite coal from eastern Pennsylvania. Spring/summer, 1970. You can see the 3 track bridge over Honeoye Creek, which still stands, in the background. Against the background of Lehigh Valley Railroad's main shops in Sayre, Pa., a grimy A-B-A trio of Alco FAs is ready to head east on Nov. 10, 1963. Granite Rock. Lehigh Valley Railroad Illustrated Photo Roster North East Rails Lehigh Valley Diesel Roster . See all feedback. Lehigh Valley Railroad Apollo-1 passing through Rochester Jct. Signal 3731 is now at the Lehigh Valley Veterans Memorial Park in Manchester NY as a tribute to Engineer Jack W Parmele. It was the center for Lehigh Valley rebuilding and maintenance operations. This facility opened late 1906 - early 1907. Photographer and date unknown. Rich Taylor photo. It was reclassified Class ES-66 in 1962 and sold to Chrome Crankshaft in August 1976. Just type in a town or city and click on the timeline of maps at the bottom of the page! Steamtown's Historian/Archivist estimates that they will have a listing of around 30,000 employees when finished, with each listing based on personnel folders or other documents in the collection. February 21, 1974. In the background is a Lehigh Valley passenger train headed east towards Mendon. 1957. The Lehigh Valley No. |Black Diamond by Phil Paone All rights The Hamlet of Mendon is behind the train about 3/4ths of a mile. The Rahway Valley Railroad (RV) was a short-line railroad that operated in northern New Jersey from 1897 until its closure in 1992. Creator: Lehigh Valley Railroad Company Quanitities: 6 cubic feet. Presented here is a century-old collection of photographs and stories from Niagara Junction, part of the Lehigh Valley Railroad . Click on nameto contact the OWNERof the photo Lehigh Valley Steam Classes A-K(After 1905) Road Nbr Photographer Date Taken Location Comments Class Wheel Builder Date 1 Inspection 3 Inspection The Clover Street bridge is just around the curves ahead and the Crossover tracks are the Rochester Branch which went from the Yards at Mount Hope ave to Lima. with no penalty on dispatcher orders. So, the railroad embarked on a northerly extension to the western shore of the Hudson River at Jersey City. LV Baldwin leading westbound at Clover St (looking west). Lehigh Valley eastbound heading out of Quaker Interlocking, 01/01/75. Two of the earliest successful ventures were the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company of 1822 and the Delaware & Hudson Canal Company of 1823 (later the Delaware & Hudson Railway). There is a chance the LV could have survived if it had been included as part of initial efforts to create more competition against Conrail. List of Railroad Employees With their years and location of service. A summary of those records can be viewed on my Milwaukee Road page. Notice Mainline track 2 is now out of service, and ends at crossing signal. No train, No tracks, No signals or relay cabinet. The site requires that you be a registered user, and it's easy to register. Lehigh Valley VRR train BNW-3, with 3 Alco C420 Yellowjackets heading west on May 21, 1974. published "The Railway Employees Journal." . Today, the university has branched out to include other academic subjects, offering undergraduate majors in the areas of arts/science and business, as well as various graduate programs. The LVRR D&H lightning stripe corporate scheme), 316 / DH 7316 > scrapped in early 1990's due to wreck damage, 317 / DH 7317 > GTI/D&H 221 > D&H 7303 (as of Sept. 2016, still wears the Terry Hotel at Rochester Junction. Dunn Oil Co. at the end of Mill Road, Mendon, February 5, 1952. It became California Steel Iindustries . 5/22/1973. Google Books has digitized several years worth of B of LE Journals, which contain benefits payments as well as profiles of members. LV eastbound signal 379-2 at Rochester Junction. Station burned to the ground April 22 1973. Richard Palmer offers a DVD packed full of shots, with more than 200 pictures depicting the Black Diamond Express and scenes along the line between New York and Buffalo from the 1890s to 1959. Following the completion of the Pattenburg Tunnel the 60-mile corridor, running via Easton/Phillipsburg, officially opened on May 28, 1875. station, July 25, 1971. Train had just dropped off mail and passengers from the Rochester station which is now the Dinosaur BBQ. June 21, 1977. Although Mikado no. In a little over a month, these tracks would never see another train again. Within many railroads, employees organized interest groups that dealt with the issues surrounding particular crafts or jobs. Early 1970s. Note MT2 is OOS and ripped up just past the grade crossing. |LV System Map This database contains accident reports for all U.S. railroads in PDF and HTML formats (caution: the HTML versions contain numerous scanning errors due to the quality of the originals) from 1911 to 1960. Lehigh Valley RR. This facility would undergo a major site reconstruction in 1926. As Conrail created what it deemed the most profitable network from these bankrupt carriers very few lines of the former Lehigh Valley system were utilized. Lehigh Valley FA-2 #594 was photographed here at Niagara Falls, New York on August 22, 1964. August, 1977. LVRR wreck near Rochester Junction, June 1895. LV Station looking west at Rochester Junction. LV by John W. Campbell 2 is out of service by this time. The entire Northeast would not have been in such a dire situation by the 1970s had deregulation been implemented years earlier. All rights Now part of the Lehigh Valley Trail. Signal on the left is now located in the Lehigh Valley Veterans park in Manchester, Relay case to the right of the right signal (#3732) is still there. J. W. Park photo. An interesting shot of a taxi at Rochester Junction, date unknown. A&K Salvage crew picking up ties in Mendon, NY on the Lehigh Valley right of way, summer 1979. It is difficult to truly articulate just how much material can be found at this website. An official, 1940 system of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. Conrail was operating the Rochester branch at this time and in a few short years, this would all be gone. This system had been built between 1828 and 1856 with an entire length of 169 miles; it ran from Northumberland to Wilkes-Barre before turning north to the New York state line via Towanda and Sayre (the location of LV's primary shops and maintenance facilities). The following is a partial list, along with the earliest known dates of publishing: Frisco System Magazine, December, 1902(? Did not matter as the mainline was no longer being used, just the Rochester Branch. The NY&E provided an east-west routing across its home state and was once the longest railroad in the country when opened in 1851. Eastbound Black Diamond at Rochester Junction, 1940. However, the job could go east as far as Rochester Jct. Lehigh Valley RR local RM-2 crossing the bridge over the former NYC Auburn branch near Phillips road in Victor NY. Lehigh Valley RR e/b train, probably LV-4, passing through Mendon, NY on February 4, 1976. Eastbound Black Diamond Passing the Lehigh Valley Tower at Rochester Junction, Spring 1950. View is railroad east. This road, started byEzra Cornell, gave the LV access to Geneva while the line was finally extended into Buffalo during 1892. Lehigh Valley Railroad in Mendon, NY March 1978. Route 251 looking west. Lehigh Valley Railroad westbound at the Route 64 grade crossing in Mendon, NY. was quite befitting and led directly to both its rise in prosperity and downfall into bankruptcy. LV #217 RS-2 switching cars, Spring 1976. Unfortunately, the solvent roads were wary of potentially dragging their own companies into bankruptcy while the government was unwilling to fund two giant systems believing the region was already saturated with too much trackage. For a transcription of a published list of 2,340 members of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Veteran Employees Association in 1934, click here. with some gondola cars for A&K Track Materials, which was in the process of pulling up No. Canterbury CT. LV 95025. as P&W 3001, Playhouse, Yarowski Trucking. May, 1978. Town of Mendon crew working at what had been the Lehigh Valley Railroad at the Old Dutch Road grade crossing. You can still see ties in the ground from the old Auburn line, which was just torn up prior to the LV derailment. Northern 24, 220-hp gas engine; # 26 & 27 sold to Sperry Rail Detecter 125 & 131, 220-hp gas engine; sold to Sperry Rail Detecter 130, 129, LV 300 Series GP38-2 Dispositions: (D&H and CP 7300 Series, 314 / DH 7314 > GTI/D&H 220 > D&H 7308 > STLH 7308 > CP 7308, 315 / DH 7316 > GTI/D&H 221 > D&H 7304 (as of Sept. 2016, still wears the Photographer unknown. This is part of the Lehigh Valley Trail. Prior to 1880, Erie motive power was used. Copyright 2007-2023 American-Rails.com. Lehigh Valley #411, Eastbound, crossing route 251 in the Hamlet of Mendon, NY. Tracks were gone summer of 1977, this picture was taken in Feb, 1978. Kits that dont even have real prototypes are listed on a separate page, titled LV Fantasy Models!, Your email address will not be published. Information from both types of rosters are included on the Erie Railroad page, and some others are referenced in the links below. First cut in the Lehigh Valley RR main. Rochester Junction, 1920s, looking west. Smoldering remains of the Lehigh Valleys Rochester Jct. Another organization that published a magazine for its members was the Brotherhood of All (or Benefit Association of) Railroad Employees, or B.A.R.E., a mutual insurance association. Roster: Locomotives: UMP 51(VO-660M) Views: 1485 Comments: 0: Title: Relegance MDT : Description: Relagance power Plymouth MDT at Portland PA power plant : It handled bridge traffic in conjunction with the Delaware & Hudson. It is believed that the box car was loaded with company material from Tifft Terminal. Two types of rosters have survived: official rosters (railroad-generated), and advertising rosters (privately-published, based on railroad-generated data). Nonetheless, in 1896 the Valley inaugurated the Black Diamond Express, a luxury day train advertised as "The Handsomest Train in the World.". By the turn of the 20th century the LVs system was largely complete boasting a network of more than 1,350 route miles while its main line stretched 448 miles from Jersey City to Buffalo. The free event is a celebration of the . Alas, the LV was superfluous by the 1970s and coupled with its heavy debt likely would have been liquidated if not for its inclusion into Conrail. Lehigh Valley Railroad Rochester Jct. Lehigh Valley RR eastbound train, led by 2 Alco C628 Snowbirds passing through Mendon, NY on September 26, 1972. Resources available to us in the 21st Century tend to vary in quantity and quality depending on the railroad in question. Revenue The Lehigh Valley Railroad Bronx Terminal was located on the Harlem River as were the three other Harlem River offline terminals. April 6, 1976. Crossover track in the center of the photo was the Rochester Branch, and went to the City of Rochester in one direction and to Honeoye Falls, Lima, and Hemlock in the other. Two types of rosters have survived: official rosters (railroad-generated), and advertising rosters (privately-published, based on railroad-generated data). This is now Mendon Station Park. A separate organization of Railroad Veterans Associations formed sometime in the 1920s, and eventually published its own magazine, "The Railroad Employee," covering several Northeastern railroads including the Lackawanna, Lehigh Valley, and Jersey Central veterans' associations. Rochester Junction, 1960s. As planners at the United States Railway Administration worked to put together the conglomerate there were many proposals aimed at providing the Port of New York with at least two railroads and as many as three. Alas, in 2013 the site closed. Select Railroad Select Locomotive. Unfortunately, the LV lived a roller-coaster existence throughout the 20th century. Your email address will not be published. Only the Lehigh Valley mainline tracks east and west of Rochester Junction were removed. Local Freight Schedules, probably 1975 (331K PDF file*) Source: Glenn Fisher, Regular Assigned Yard Jobs, 10-28-75(116K PDF file*) Source: Glenn Fisher, Locomotive Assignment Roster, 10-21-75(1199K PDF file*) Source: Glenn Fisher. He may have been awarded a gold pass for 50 years of service, or he may have worked on the section gang one summer while home from college. Lehigh Valley Railroad AP-1 taken from the Clover Street bridge Sept '75. Train was headed back to Manchester from Rochester Junction. In 1865, the first passenger train was operated out of Delano to Mahanoy City. Register : Home > Lehigh Valley > Locomotives : Lehigh Valley Photographic Roster : Reporting Marks: LV : Click on a locomotive to view pictures: Roster Options: . To search the Erie database, visit my Erie Railroad page. Its fall helped bring down most other systems in Northeast, setting up a catastrophic situation as the region threatened total shutdown.
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