|LV System Map Number 568 is leading here. For a transcription of a published list of 2,340 members of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Veteran Employees Association in 1934, click here. The Official Site of the Lehigh Valley IronPigs Lehigh Valley IronPigs. if you are stuck in someone else's frame. Fox River Valley Railroad: 1: GCRY: Grand Canyon Railway: 1: GEXR: Goderich & Exeter: 3: GMRC: Green Mountain RR: 3: GN: Great Northern: 12: GNW: GNW: 1: GRS: GRS: 1: GT: Early 1970s. So, the railroad embarked on a northerly extension to the western shore of the Hudson River at Jersey City. Crossing signals removed, tracks being torn up. LVRR crossing in Mendon. It is an excellent resource with thousands of historic maps on file throughout the country. on May 21, 1978. The Rahway Valley Railroad (RV) was a short-line railroad that operated in northern New Jersey from 1897 until its closure in 1992. Lehigh Valley F7's, led #570, are seen here at work in South Plainfield, New Jersey, circa 1960. These pages contain information about the prototype LVRR freight cars, with notes on available models. For many years it had relied upon interchange connections but as rail competition to the Port of New Yorkintensifiedit realized it needed its own route. 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. Construction began in 1850 around Mauch Chunk, PA. Retirement records are available provided Grandpa was still working after 1936 when Railroad Retirement was instituted. Also, railroads began forming Veterans Associations as early as 1900. More to explore : Lehigh Valley Slide, Lehigh . Westbound Lehigh Valley freight crossing bridge over the NYC Auburn branch, and about to cross Phillips Rd, taken on 10 June 1975. ); 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. Despite only measuring 15.28 miles in length, which included freight sidings, the RV was a vibrant and prosperous railroad. Our hope is that these photographs will give you an appreciation for what key locations along our trail looked like, decades ago. Trailer Train MTTX Flatcar #91225 ROSTER 1980 Original Kodachrome. 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 foundation for the crossing signal on the right can still be seen in the ground, with the bolts bent over along Route 251. These magazines can provide as much good information as the railroad company magazines, and also may include reports of injured or deceased employees whose families were paid benefits from the unions' mutual benefit programs (click here to see a report of benefits paid to members of the Order of Railway Conductors in 1897, contributed to this site by Robert Heck). This approach span was removed in the early 1980s. Facilities and People. The direct predecessor of the Lehigh Valley was the Delaware, Lehigh, Schuylkill & Susquehanna Railroad incorporated onSeptember 20, 1847. Diesel Locomotives Many employee files over the years were tossed into bonfires or hauled out to the dump after the employees left service. 251 in Mendon, NY on October 25, 1973. Tracks have been partially torn up, crossing signals have been removed at this grade crossing, which is route 251. However, the job could go east as far as Rochester Jct. 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. on November 20, 1973. Taken from the Route 251 grade crossing. Don Marshall standing at the crossover at Rochester Junction, 1967. Reproduction or redistribution in any form without express written permission is It is difficult to truly articulate just how much material can be found at this website. By Railroad . The local came into RJ as BPL-6. 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. As with other equipment, its up to the individual modeler to decide how much accuracy is good enough. My own approach is to find out what needs to be done to make a really accurate representation, then weigh the cost in time and money against the impact each change will have when the car is seen on the layout. Lehigh Valley RR local RM-2 at the Old Dutch Road crossing east of Mendon, NY Jan/Feb 1969. These were often considered sales tools for the traffic department, hence the inclusion names and other contact information for those in charge of freight and passenger sales. Author's collection. 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. Unfortunately, that's a tough question to answer. Eastbound; about to cross old Dutch road. Guardrails still in place. Agents, Clerks, Shop Crafts, all had organizations on many railroads. Please check back often, as we will be adding photos on a regular basis; the newest additions will always be at the top (current total: 186). 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. This still stands and is now a private home. LV Diesel Roster | LH&R Roster First cut in the Lehigh Valley RR main. View is to the west. Even for Asa Packer, the accomplishment of the Lehigh Valley Railroad must have been remarkable to him, given the fact that not even forty-years prior, people were still skeptical about the efficacy of railroads. The branch to Rochester also connected here. To do this it began a branch from its main line at South Plainfield, which extended northeasterly to Jersey City. Granite Rock. Many of us remember hearing stories about Grandpa Joe who worked for "the railroad." Just east of Phillips Rd. Train has just crossed Route 251. Lehigh Valley RR. Mile Square Road grade crossing. Two types of rosters have survived: official rosters (railroad-generated), and advertising rosters (privately-published, based on railroad-generated data). Lehigh Valley, end of eastbound freight, east side of Clover St. Undated. The bridge still stands and is part of the Lehigh Valley Trail. 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. 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. Also see Conrail listings. |Black Diamond by Phil Paone Black Diamond at Lehigh Valley Rochester Junction, Honeoye Falls NY. 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). LVRR RM-2 crossing over the former NYC Auburn branch, 21 May 1974. Home Site Map Search Contact Otter Tail Valley Railroad Company 10: 2: OTVR: OUCH: Ouachita Railroad 4: 5: OUCH: OVR: Otter Valley Railroad 2: 9: OVR: PAM: Pittsburgh Allegheny and McKees Rocks Railroad Company 6: 7: PAM: PBNE: Philadelphia Bethlehem and New England R 33: 8: PBNE: PBR: Patapsco and Back Rivers Railroad 77: 6: PBR: PBRR: Pine Belt Southern Railroad Company . Current Bid: USD 6.99 . Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, American railroad whose growth was based on hauling coal from the anthracite mines of northeastern Pennsylvania. Lehigh Valley PA-1 #604 heads off to the scrapper as it departs Sayre, Pennsylvania behind an SW1 on October 4, 1963. 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. One good source for information can be the employee magazines that many roads published for their workers. View is railroad West. View is to the east. This is now Mendon Station Park and a short stretch of panel tracks sits right about where the locomotive is. LV #217 RS-2 switching cars, Spring 1976. Rumor going around at the time related that A&K let a loaded gon get away and it rolled towards Rush, finally stopping. Packer became a successful operator and builder of canal boats for the LC&N, a strange twist for an individual who later earned his wealth in the railroad industry. Later this month, the RailRiders begin a home schedule that currently features 16 giveaways, 12 fireworks nights, six custom jerseys, four Copa de la Diversin games and much more! Lehigh Valley Quaker Interlocking. As much as the railroad tried it was unable to reverse its declining fortunes. 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. reserved by original owner of image. Now part of the Lehigh Valley Trail. The images in this special gallery are copyrighted by their respective owners, and may not be reproduced without permission. Lehigh Valley C420s & RS11 Eastbound to Victor, crossing over the old abandoned Auburn line, 3/31/1972. More are always being added. The Locomotive has just crossed over a small bridge the Boy Scouts refurbished some years back. October, 1977. It was one of the major anthracite railroads and formed a . Now part of the Lehigh Valley Trail. American-Rails.com collection. 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**, Freight Train Schedules, transcribed from ETT #5, 10-28-56(9K PDF file*) Source: Ralph Heiss, Freight Train Schedules, from ETT #7, 10-25-1959(170K PDF file*) Source: Ed Schaller, Freight Train Schedules, late 1963-66 (129K PDF file*) Source: Jim Kerner, Freight Train Schedules, from ETT #9, 10-27-1968(114K PDF file*) Source: Lou Millan, Freight Train Schedules, 1-28-1970 (580K PDF file*) Source: PSA MG-274**, Freight Train Schedules, 7-22-1974 (648K PDF file*) Source: PSA MG-274**, Freight Train Schedules, 7-10-1975 (792K PDF file*) Source: Glenn Fisher. |Employees on 1938 Perris CA. The information includes original numbers, serials, and order numbers. Through the Waverly connection the LV now had an all-rail outlet to Buffalo. Lehigh Valley 311-406-310 in Victor 2/17/1972. 5212 was a class T2b 4-8-4 "Wyoming" type locomotive built by ALCO in 1943 for both passenger and freight service. Reprinted with permission from The Lehigh Valley Railroad Across New Jersey, by Ralph Heiss. 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. Resources available to us in the 21st Century tend to vary in quantity and quality depending on the railroad in question. Also included in these issues were several detailed career profiles and photos of hundreds of Erie employees. 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. Unfortunately, the LV lived a roller-coaster existence throughout the 20th century. This is now Mendon Station Park. LV (wood) as PE 1973, wood, cupola, built in 1926; from Lehigh Valley, Orange Empire Railway Museum. prohibited. 1969 and July/Aug./Sept. Alas, in 2013 the site closed. 19932022 Mendon Foundation, Inc. All rights reserved. During 1871 the LV acquired the Morris Canal, which provided it waterfront property in Jersey City although the railroad still required building its own rails to the area. Lehigh Valley MR-1 standing on the Rochester Branch at Rochester Jct. This article is converted from Wikipedia: Lehigh and Hudson River Railway. Rochester Junction, 1920s, looking west. GitHub export from English Wikipedia. NYC Auburn railroad went under the bridge in the background. 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. This facility opened late 1906 - early 1907. One can reasonably argue that its long decline began with the stock market's collapse in October of 1929. Lehigh Valley Railroad. American-Rails.com collection. an RS-11 and a wide yellow stripe GP9 to my LV diesel roster for a total of seven. Lehigh Valley Railroad Company records, 1870-1962. It created the quasi-public Consolidated Rail Corporation, better known as Conrail, which 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). 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. May, 1978. However, each declined due to the LV's light traffic, enormous debt, and declining physical condition. I stumbled upon some a few years ago for eight Milwaukee Road employees when a railfan friend passed along to me some documents he had acquired. The new two-story station was a brick . Packer carried the vision to see much of the Lehigh Valley system in place before he passed away onMay 17, 1879. this was taken 2 years after the Lehigh Valley shut down, 1978. Lehigh Valley RR local RM-2 crossing the bridge over the former NYC Auburn branch near Phillips road in Victor NY. 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 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. Never had confirmation of that story, however. Fallen Flags and Historic Roads Bing [Bot] The R.O.W. 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. Rochester branch side. LV Rochester Local 1.5 miles east of Mendon w/#128 SW900m leading. 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. The house behind the locomotive is now Benicasa hospice house. Bridge was torn down in 1986. Approach signals for Rochester Junction still in place. 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. Lehigh Valley Black Diamond, Eastbound at Rochester Junction, Early 1950s. My review of over 100 accident reports for the Milwaukee Road show that after about 1940 the reports stop naming employees involved or interviewed, so they are of limited use after that date for finding someone. American-Rails.com collection. View is Eastbound and Rochester Junction is about a mile or so behind the photographer's back. Removing the crossing signals at Mile Square Road in Mendon, NY on the Lehigh Valley Railroad. Tracks were gone summer of 1977, this picture was taken in Feb, 1978. LV by John W. Campbell Conrail using the Rochester branch at this time. Along with the Erie, a number of other railroads published magazines. 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. Originally chartered in 1846 to be a transporter of anthracite coal from the vast coal fields of Pennsylvania, the Lehigh Valley Railroad grew into a major carrier of both freight and passengers between Jersey City, New Jersey, and Buffalo, New York. Unlike the DL&W, however, the LV was not burdened by extensive commuter operations. It was the center for Lehigh Valley rebuilding and maintenance operations. But, like company publications, few (more likely none) of the labor publications are indexed. 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. These were Rochester branch tracks that came off the mainline tracks at Rochester Junction. 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. Roster Lehigh Valley Transactions PHI Transactions. Local RM-2 is waiting in the Rochester Junction yard. This bridge still stands. Although Mikado no. The overpass bridge has been removed and a newly paved Clover street is in its place. 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. The approach trestles are gone. NAME: POSITION: . Taken from the south side on the very late afternoon of a chilly 16 December 1977. Once again, though, their availability today can be very limited. The Lehigh Valley Transit Company (LVT) was a regional transport company that was headquartered in Allentown, Pennsylvania. The Lehigh Valley Railroad was another of the many Northeastern carriers built to move anthracite coal from eastern Pennsylvania. Full Promotional Video: Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway Train is on the Rochester Branch. Cars were going to concerns in Honeoye Falls and Lima. Lehigh Valley Railroad westbound at the Route 64 grade crossing in Mendon, NY. The A&K Pettibone could not pull the car so the crew of Conrail EX-1 was talked into going down the abandoned track in order to pick the car up and drag it back to RJ. Kits that dont even have real prototypes are listed on a separate page, titled LV Fantasy Models!, Your email address will not be published. This Missouri library has an extensive collection of on-line local history, including the Frisco Railroad employee magazine in PDF format. 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. Eastbound Lehigh Valley RR local RM-2 at Mile Square Road in Mendon, NY, late February 1976. You can see the 3 track bridge over Honeoye Creek, which still stands, in the background. Lehigh Valley eastbound Apollo crossing 3 track bridge over Honeoye Creek, just west of Rochester Junction, 1974. 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. The Lehigh Valley can trace its heritage back to northeastern Pennsylvania and the great Anthracite coal rush that began with the Lehigh Coal Mine Company in 1792 and expanded during the War of 1812. 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.
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