Lehigh Valley Railroad westbound looking to Mendon NY. March 15, 1975 the Pride of the Fleet Apollo, Lehigh Valley AP-1 led by 4 USRA purchased GE U23Bs hustles across the Genesse River flood plain trestle that led up to the Genesee River bridge in the Town of Rush. The information includes original numbers, serials, and order numbers. Never had confirmation of that story, however. 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. Home Site Map Search Contact Built in Lehigh Valley shops in 1888: 4-4-0 1: 262778: LV 390: 2/1916 . LV Rochester Local 1.5 miles east of Mendon w/#128 SW900m leading. Lehigh Valley Rochester Junction, Honeoye Falls NY, early 1900s. Would guess early 1950s. Historical Society, Inc. Our organization consists of almost 1,000 authors, historians, railroad employees, photographers, model railroaders, and just plain rail fans who share our interest in the railroads that served the anthracite coal mining region of eastern Pennsylvania. Lehigh Valley Railroad at Rochester Junction, NY 11/7/1971. Its fall helped bring down most other systems in Northeast, setting up a catastrophic situation as the region threatened total shutdown. MOW There very various subsidiaries comprising this project, which later collectively became known as the Lehigh Valley Terminal Railway. The RV served multitudes of shippers, including: stone quarries, pharmaceutical companies, coal dealers, plastics manufacturers, and many more. Notice the man on the second telegraph pole. Could The LV Have Survived To The Modern Day? "History of Mack Rail Motor Cars and Locomotives", LVNHS, 1959, Diesel Locomotive Rosters, The Railroad Magazine, Wayner Publications. Roster Lehigh Valley Transactions PHI Transactions. For a transcription of a published list of 2,340 members of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Veteran Employees Association in 1934, click here. Eastbound Lehigh Valley freight train, led by Alco FAs, east of Rochester Junction. Descriptions from the Official Railway Equipment Register (ORER) are supplemented with commonly used railfan and modeler descriptions, as appropriate. Another picture that depicts A&K pulling rail from the rail from the Lehigh Valley Genesee River bridge. In 1864 his railroad opened 23 miles above Mauch Chunk to White Haven and then acquired the moribundBeaver Meadows Railroad & Coal Company. February 26, 1975. While the station was gone in 1973, the canopies, which you see in the photo to the left, remained until they were torn down by Conrail in 1985 when they removed the track. Lehigh Valley gas electric at Rochester Junction. Once this very hard, clean-burning product was discovered many individuals put projects into motion for its transportation to the Northeast's great metropolitan regions as a source of heating fuel. Lehigh Valley Photographic Roster. Freight Train Schedules, transcribed from ETT #2, 9-27-53, Freight Train Schedules, transcribed from ETT #5, 10-28-56, Freight Train Schedules, from ETT #7, 10-25-1959, Freight Train Schedules, from ETT #9, 10-27-1968, Chart of On-Line Shippers, Their Locations, and Traffic Generated (1969 1972), Anthracite Railroads Historical Society, Inc. Date and photographer unknown. Station can be seen just behind the tender. It was reclassified Class ES-66 in 1962 and sold to Chrome Crankshaft in August 1976. |The LVRR Information from both types of rosters are included on the Erie Railroad page, and some others are referenced in the links below. Using his financial success, and with the help of investors, he acquired the DLS&S charter and renamed it as the Lehigh Valley Railroad in 1853. He may have been an engineer on crack passenger trains such as the Hiawatha or 400, may have manned a busy interlocking tower, or generated waybills in the yard office. 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 GP38-2's #319, #316, and #314 at work in the summer of 1973. Resources available to us in the 21st Century tend to vary in quantity and quality depending on the railroad in question. Lehigh Valley Railroad: 1938 Employee Rosters . Two types of rosters have survived: official rosters (railroad-generated), and advertising rosters (privately-published, based on railroad-generated data). 1875-1927, includes views of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. Through the Waverly connection the LV now had an all-rail outlet to Buffalo. Allied with the CNJ in some territories to reduce Bridge was torn down in 1986. Lehigh Valley Railroad AP-1 taken from the Clover Street bridge Sept '75. The Lehigh and Hudson River Railway (L&HR) was the smallest of the six railroads that were merged int is now known as the Lehigh Valley Trail. Summer, 1976. Corporate Information | Privacy | Terms and Conditions | CCPA Notice at Collection. Many were pulled up in the 1970's and 1980's although others were removed long before that. The Wyoming Valley is a historic section of the Susquehanna Valley that is served by the railroad. We also have an interactive railroad Map! Lehigh Valley Rochester Junction, early 1970s. The Hamlet of Mendon is behind the train about 3/4ths of a mile. View is railroad west, and the tracks were gone on the other side of Plains Road by this time. Date unknown. Train had just dropped off mail and passengers from the Rochester station which is now the Dinosaur BBQ. Another shot of A&K Track Materials crew picking up rail near Clover Street in Mendon NY after the bridge had been removed. Lehigh Valley RR westbound train about to clear the NY Rt. This bridge still stands. Taken from the Clover Street overpass on June 24, 1974. That said, each year I see more records and sources posted online as archivists seek to digitize their holdings. 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. 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. A final comment: it is very possible depending on the railroad or the era you are researching that records simply no longer exist, or if they do they are buried in a dusty archive somewhere. Terry Hotel at Rochester Junction. A popular pastime for many is studying and/or exploring abandoned rights-of-way. The entire Northeast would not have been in such a dire situation by the 1970s had deregulation been implemented years earlier. 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. It all began when Packer created the Easton & Amboy Railroad in 1872, which acquired the former charter of thePerth Amboy & Bound Brook Railroad, authorized to develop port facilities at Perth Amboy, New Jersey. Today, Lycoming Valley Railroad is a 50 mile short line that interchanges with Norfolk Southern and Canadian Pacific Railway (via NS Haulage) in Northumberland, PA. LVRR is the largest short line on the North Shore Railroad Company system. Another shot of the demolition of the Clover Street Lehigh Valley RR overpass. 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 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). Roster. North East Rails Clint Chamberlin. Mainline tracks were still in place although Conrail did not use them, they only used the Rochester branch tracks and the crossover at the Junction to reach Honeoye Falls and Lima. 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. On the Lehigh Valley Rochester branch at Rochester Junction, early 1970s. This GP38-2 was built by EMD for the Lehigh Valley Railroad in Nov. 1972 and delivered in Cornell red as number 323. Lehigh Valley Railroad at Mendon NY, Looking eastbound. Westbound Lehigh Valley freight crossing bridge over the NYC Auburn branch, and about to cross Phillips Rd, taken on 10 June 1975. 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. Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway | Train Rides in Jim Thorpe, PA Visit RBMNRR-passenger.com to see train trips originating from our other locations. Valley Steam Classes A-K (After 1905). The Junction itself was still being accessed by Conrail via the Rochester branch for deliveries to Honeoye Falls and Lima until the early 1980s, when everything else was ripped up. A summary of those records can be viewed on my Milwaukee Road page. Conrail was operating the Rochester branch at this time. The left hand side would be where the ballfields are today. The units were en route to M&K in Boise, ID for rebuild. By Railroad . NAME: POSITION: . Conrail had not started to pull up the tracks yet. 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 Westbound train BNW-3 with D&H Alco PA units 16 and 19 in the power consist on their way to M-K for rebuild. White house to the left of the Caboose is now Benincasa Hospice house. August, 1977. Conrail using the Rochester branch at this time. Packer carried the vision to see much of the Lehigh Valley system in place before he passed away onMay 17, 1879. Rochester Junction, 1960s. The Lehigh Valley Railroad Bronx Terminal was located on the Harlem River as were the three other Harlem River offline terminals. A Box car and Flat car now sit at this location. Lehigh Valley Railroad Quaker Interlocking, Quaker Meeting House Road, Mendon, NY, view to the east, June 21, 1977. Lehigh Valley Railroad local RM-2 with a caboose hop at Mendon, NY June, 1972. Train is on the Rochester Branch. An interesting shot of a taxi at Rochester Junction, date unknown. This was a combination of the Anthracite Mines in Pennsylvania with a canal company to provide access to the coal fields and the means to transport the 'Black Diamonds' to the people. Paul Templeton photo, Lehigh Valley Railroad eastbound train at the Old Dutch Road grade crossing east of Mendon, NY. Another large collection, of Erie Railroad and Delaware, Lackawanna & Western employees working in the Scranton, PA area, is housed at the Steamtown National Historic Site (read on for more information on that). Home Site Map Search Contact Old main track no. 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). Lehigh Valley Railroad Company records, 1870-1962. MOW The Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum is home to the largest collection of historic trains and operating vintage diesel locomotives in New York State! Reproduction or redistribution in any form without express written permission is LV - Lehigh Valley Includes listings for Geneva Ithaca & Savre RR. Alas, in 2013 the site closed. Available from the publisher online at Arcadia Publishing or by calling 888-313-2665. on May 21, 1978. This still stands and is now a private home. time on what were essentially local feeder lines to the Erie mainline; they were built to the Eighteen of the 28 were the famous "pups" that operated on the Hazleton branch. Reprinted with permission from The Lehigh Valley Railroad Across New Jersey, by Ralph Heiss. Lehigh Valley Wreck on Phillips Road bridge over the old NYC Auburn line. The Locomotive has just crossed over a small bridge the Boy Scouts refurbished some years back. Retirement records are available provided Grandpa was still working after 1936 when Railroad Retirement was instituted. Lehigh Valley train westbound at Rochester Junction, 1975. 7. . Double head signal #3731 was the approach signal for Quaker interlocking. Pump house and tower can be seen in this photo. Additional information/updates by: Martin Baumann and Joseph O'Mara Initially, the southern terminus of Easton meant coal would once more require a transfer to barges and either travel down the Delaware River to Philadelphia or cross the waterway for shipment east towards New York. Another shot of A&K Track Materials picking up rail just east of Rochester Jct. Taken two months before the end of the LV. Also see Conrail listings. Lehigh Valley RR local RM-2 crossing the bridge over the former NYC Auburn branch near Phillips road in Victor NY. 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. 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. Lehigh Valley RR westbound train about to cross NY Rt. Cars were going to concerns in Honeoye Falls and Lima. on March 30, 1976. Double headed signal on the left is now erected at the Lehigh Valley Veterans park in Manchester, NY. costs. Headed for Rochester on the Rochester branch. In 1928 the PRR began acquiring LV stock and continued to do so throughout the years in an increasingly futile attempt to maintain its investment within the declining company. The ice house/potato warehouse at Rochester Junction, behind the MOW/Passenger car. |Library of Congress Map, Click here if you are Lehigh Valley Rochester Junction, early 1970s. Town of Mendon crew working at what had been the Lehigh Valley Railroad at the Old Dutch Road grade crossing. To do this it began a branch from its main line at South Plainfield, which extended northeasterly to Jersey City. NYC Auburn railroad went under the bridge in the background. 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. 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. You can check them by clicking here. 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). Unfortunately, LV's founder did not live long enough to see this dream realized although he did lay the foundation by acquiring theGeneva, Ithaca & Sayre Railroad in 1876. 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. Now part of the Lehigh Valley Trail. Green Mountain. The Lehigh and New England Railroad was likely the least known of the great anthracite carriers of the Northeast which included names like the Reading, Lehigh Valley, and Jersey Central. Early 1970s. Lehigh Valley railroad looking East at Rochester Junction, 1973. 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. November 30th, 1976. Each of these photographs is from a location along what is, today, the Lehigh Valley Trail. Author's collection. 2 would be out of service. Lehigh Valley Railroad Quaker Interlocking, Quaker Meeting House Road, Mendon, NY, view to the east, June 21, 1977. The free event is a celebration of the . LVRR Cabooses - sorted by Location. In the mid-1800s many people were starting to . Another company publication that may yield names of station and traffic department (passenger and freight sales) personnel is the public timetable issued for use by passengers. It created the quasi-public Consolidated Rail Corporation, better known as Conrail, which The RRB, by the way, has some great information online for genealogists regarding this subject, as well as location of some archives that do hold personnel or other records, including data before 1936. American-Rails.com collection. Just east of Phillips Rd. 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. Removing the crossing signals at Mile Square Road in Mendon, NY on the Lehigh Valley Railroad. 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. Unfortunately, the DLS&S was having difficulty raising capital, in part due to the efforts of the LC&N. This is now Mendon Station Park. It is believed that they made a set out at the Junction. All rights Photographer unknown. Tracks were gone summer of 1977, this picture was taken in Feb, 1978. Photograph by Donald W. Furler, Furler-12-021-01 . This is part of the Lehigh Valley Trail. It completed the transition in 1951. Facilities and People. Revenue Abandoned Rails of the Lehigh Valley Railroad LV. Date and photographer unknown. Lehigh Valley Slide, Lehigh Valley Railroad Photograph, CNW Slide, Pocket Slide Rule Collectible . Click on a railroad to view a roster: Roster Options: . I have done some limited investigations into resources over the past 10 years, and there appears to be little out there that has been indexed and is readily available. 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. 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. About this page: This list compiles occupation and service lists as found in other sources, with the goal of being able to search and cross-reference the names to see all the places where one person served. LEHIGH VALLEY RAILROAD 1966 Enroute to Manchester, we first encountered the Lehigh Valley at Victor, NY. Lehigh Valley Eastbound freight crossing 3 track bridge over Honeoye creek, west of Rochester Junction, 1973. Station burned to the ground April 22 1973. 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. Click here for information on the builders, as well as info on ALCO plant inspector Edward F. Holtz, submitted by Jim Holtz. Agents, Clerks, Shop Crafts, all had organizations on many railroads. 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 approach span was removed in the early 1980s. The employee listing is a work in process, and is dependent on the availability of volunteers: that said, people researching D&LW employees can contact the Archivist at Steamtown for more information. Date unknown. 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.