Now part of the Lehigh Valley Trail. Please note not all items are on public display. Ex Lehigh Valley tunnel under the NYS Thruway on October 9, 1999. It was one of the numerous bankrupts rolled into Conrail whereupon its routes were considered superfluous. LV by John W. Campbell 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. Westbound Lehigh Valley freight crossing bridge over the NYC Auburn branch, and about to cross Phillips Rd, taken on 10 June 1975. Faced with the realization of either a nationalized takeover or a reorganization the government was forced to step in. He may have been trying to find ways to cut costs or improve service or something. received 03/01/2001 from Dick Whitehead, Supervisor-Train Movement & Power Distribution (Chief Dispatcher), 1972-76. Allied with the CNJ in some territories to reduce Lehigh Valley trains meet at Rush, NY. This local normally worked from Tifft Terminal in Buffalo to P&L Jct. Availability of rosters, once again, varies by railroad, and the accuracy of data in advertising rosters, including name spellings, varies widely. Prior to 1880, Erie motive power was used. Rochester Junction is about a mile away. One good source for information can be the employee magazines that many roads published for their workers. Eastbound Lehigh Valley freight train, led by Alco FAs, east of Rochester Junction. White house to the left of the Caboose is now Benincasa Hospice house. The Lehigh Valley No. Reproduction or redistribution in any form without express written permission is Eastbound Lehigh Valley RR local RM-2 at Mile Square Road in Mendon, NY, late February 1976. Roster Lehigh Valley Transactions PHI Transactions. March 29, 1976, two days before the end of the Lehigh Valley. Rochester branch side. ** Pennsylvania State Archives, Harrisburg, PA. Uncatalogued material in Manuscript Group 274. Box 3630 Greenville, DE 19807 (302) 658-2400 Urban Archives Paley Library Temple University Philadelphia, PA 19122 Conrail #1224 (ex-Erie-Lackawanna) with train on the former Lehigh Valley Rochester branch. Unfortunately, the DLS&S was having difficulty raising capital, in part due to the efforts of the LC&N. Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community. Map of the Abandoned Rails of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. A&K Track Materials picking up rail just east of ex Lehigh Valley Railroad Rochester Jct. Date unknown. The LV had a modest passenger train fleet with its most notable service the flagshipBlack Diamond. 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. Lehigh Valley Rochester Junction, early 1970s. Lehigh Valley gas electric at Rochester Junction. A summary of those records can be viewed on my Milwaukee Road page. This is part of the Lehigh Valley Trail. Lehigh Valley Railroad train NE-1 westbound passing the Rochester Junction station in June of 1972. Yet another source of information can be found in the magazines published by the labor unions, such as the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and the Order of Railway Conductors. 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. This article is converted from Wikipedia: Lehigh and Hudson River Railway. Photo taken at Mendon NY, Route 251 grade crossing during the summer of 1977, roughly 4 months after the Lehigh Valley had shut down. This GP38-2 was built by EMD for the Lehigh Valley Railroad in Nov. 1972 and delivered in Cornell red as number 323. 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. Its plan was similar to the LV's but its promoters' hopes never made it beyond a bit of grading work. 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. Unlike the DL&W, however, the LV was not burdened by extensive commuter operations. Date unknown. 251 crossing in Mendon, NY on January 31, 1974. He was born onDecember 29, 1805 inMystic, Connecticut and spent his early life as a carpenter and eventually settled inMauch Chunk, Pennsylvania (now known as Jim Thorpe), along with his wife, Sarah. It completed the transition in 1951. The caboose is former Lehigh Valley. It is believed that they made a set out at the Junction. Packer renamed the property as the New York & Pennsylvania, extending service to the state line at Waverly, New York in 1869 where it interchanged with the New York & Erie (Erie). Conrail local EX-1 arriving at ex Lehigh Valley Railroad Rochester Jct. Abandoned Rails of the Lehigh Valley Railroad LV. 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. Another shot of A&K Track Materials crew picking up rail near Clover Street in Mendon NY after the bridge had been removed. 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. Back to home page Return to top. This bridge still stands. Register : Home > Lehigh Valley > Locomotives : Lehigh Valley Photographic Roster : Reporting Marks: LV : Click on a locomotive to view pictures: Roster Options: . Today its assets are held by Trustmark Corporation. It is an excellent resource with thousands of historic maps on file throughout the country. This is now Mendon Station Park. is now known as the Lehigh Valley Trail. If you look closely, you can see the interlocking signals, all red, at Quaker interlocking, which is by the curve. 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. with some gondola cars for A&K Track Materials, which was in the process of pulling up No. Asa Packer's greats philanthropic endeavor was the establishment of Lehigh University, chartered in 1865 and named for the railroad. |LV by Jame Mack The Lehigh Valley Railroad was another of the many Northeastern carriers built to move anthracite coal from eastern Pennsylvania. (GE c/n 10028), #114 to Maryland Port Authority 114 > Ocean City Western 114 > WWRC 114, To Cotton Producers Association 117 > Gold Kist 117 > Vulcan Materials 5789, #150-51 & 153 to SIRC 9145, SB 107 & SIRC 9146 > B&O 9145, BSOR 107 & B&O 9146 > #9145 & 9146 to SECX 500 & YSTX 9146, #155, 158-59 to SIRC 9147, LSS 12 & SB 106 > B&O 9147, TN 41 & SB 106, To SIRC 9149, --, SB 104 > #9149 to B&O 9149, #8679, 8681, 8684-87 to NSHR 366, Amtk 749, RBMN 803, CCGX 1002 & Scrap Corp of America 780, #288-89 to LT 1201-1202 > DJPX 1201 & YN 301 > JTPX 1201 & LT 1202. May 21, 1978. 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. Lehigh Valley GP38-2's #319, #316, and #314 at work in the summer of 1973. The Lehigh Valley Railroad Lvc Coal Railroad Steam Georgia United States The Unit Train RailPictures.Net Photo: LVC 126 Lehigh Valley Coal Co. Note the open phone cabinet extreme left. Wrecks, Also see: The Valley was running shorter trains at this point. 200-hp gas engine; loco reblt to motor trailer #T54; 220-hp gas engine; ex-B&O 6006 & 6007; sold to Sperry Rail Detector 123 & 128, 220-hp gas engine; sold to Sperry Rail Service 124, 440-hp gas engine; sold to App. DieselSteamElectric View is railroad east and Mendon station park is now where this all was. Today, she is operable at the Virginia Museum of Transportation. Its fall helped bring down most other systems in Northeast, setting up a catastrophic situation as the region threatened total shutdown. The path of the train is now the Lehigh Valley Trail. 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! This view looks east from inside the interlocking tower, with the station behind the photographer. competitive in various ways: While these innovations and ideas were somewhat successful they could not stem the enormous losses mounting by the late 1960s; there was simply too many railroads and not enough traffic. This facility opened late 1906 - early 1907. Gates of Vienna News Feed 3/2/2023. Retirement records are available provided Grandpa was still working after 1936 when Railroad Retirement was instituted. Summer, 1976. on November 20, 1973. NYC Auburn railroad went under the bridge in the background. These can be great sources of insite into the day-to-day lives of railroad workers and their families, and may contain detailed stories on retiring employees. It was rebuilt at Silvis and sold to Kaiser Steel Co as 1028 in August 1976. Construction began in 1850 around Mauch Chunk, PA. Lehigh Valley #411, Eastbound, crossing route 251 in the Hamlet of Mendon, NY. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Lehigh Valley LV C628 Action White Haven PA 1974 Original Kodachrome at the best online prices at eBay! 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. It is widely recognized as one of the top colleges in the country and perennially ranks as one ofU.S. News & World Report's "Best Colleges," usually among the top 50 nationally. This approach span was removed in the early 1980s. Train is Eastbound. Introduced pool service with the Nickel Plate Road Also, railroads began forming Veterans Associations as early as 1900. Bedford IA. The local came into RJ as BPL-6. This area is now Mendon Station Park. Goodwin Railroad. See all feedback. Paul J. Templeton photo. 251 in Mendon, NY on October 25, 1973. In 1891 it opened service to Newark, just across the Hackensack River from Jersey City, where it constructed the large Oak Island Yard. Number 568 is leading here. 1982) and Lehigh Valley by Robert J. Yanosey . Train had just dropped off mail and passengers from the Rochester station which is now the Dinosaur BBQ. Approach signals for Rochester Junction still in place. Paul Templeton photo, Lehigh Valley RR local RM-2, crossing route 251 in the hamlet of Mendon NY on March 4, 1974. These were used to determine work assignments based on the seniority held in each position on the various divisions of each railroad. Willis and Ethyl Miller purchased the property at 287 Bull (Bulls) Saw Mill Road from John and Rebecca Bull. Lehigh Valley RR train AP-2 crossing Old Dutch Road east of Mendon, NY on January 9, 1974. American-Rails.com collection. The new two-story station was a brick . 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. This is now Mendon Station Park. 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. Local RM-2 is waiting in the Rochester Junction yard. Lehigh valley Apollo, Taken from the Clover Street bridge; Rochester Junction is around the curve. The westbound train has just crossed route 15A. That changed once a bridge was completed intoPhillipsburg, New Jersey. The Delaware, Lehigh, Schuylkill and Susquehanna Railroad Company was authorized by the State of Pennsylvania on April 21, 1846, and incorporated on September 20, 1847. The Lehigh Valley Railroad occupied Pier 66 on the Hudson River. The Official Site of the Lehigh Valley IronPigs Lehigh Valley IronPigs. Lehigh Valley Railroad, Reading Company . The old Lehigh Valley Railroad depot in Williamsville NY with a switcher, boxcar and caboose on display. 2 is out of service by this time. Hazleton Branch, October 1, 1938 . MOW The Lehigh Valley gave its 4-8-4 type locomotives a local name, rather than the "Northern" designation. Still rule 251, Automatic Block System. Morgan's firm remained in control long after his death, during which time the LV was a well-managed, profitable operation. Note that search results for some last names are truncated to the first 5 letters. on March 30, 1976. J. W. Park photo. Smoldering remains of the Lehigh Valleys Rochester Jct. Signal 3792, which was the approach signal for Quaker interlocking, was still lit but was set at Red Over Red and stayed lit that way until Conrail disconnected the power. Local RM-2 is waiting in the Rochester Junction yard. Taken from the south side on the very late afternoon of a chilly 16 December 1977. Perth Amboy remained an important terminus for the Lehigh Valley throughout the years although its southerly location placed it a bit too far south of New York. Lehigh Valley Railroad Illustrated Photo Roster North East Rails Lehigh Valley Diesel Roster . Westbound Lehigh Valley train at Rochester Junction, 1970. Employee rosters are another source of names and such information as seniority dates and positions. One more day, and it would be over for the Lehigh Valley. It is believed that they made a set out at the Junction. January 16, 1978. May, 1978. In the foreground there is a barn on the right. Copyright 2007-2023 American-Rails.com. 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. Lehigh Valley railroad looking East at Rochester Junction, 1973. This photo was published in. Today, there are tens of thousands of miles scattered throughout the country. Lehigh Valley Railroad Alco C420 "Yellow Jackets" westbound at Rochester Junction in 1967. On the Lehigh Valley Rochester branch at Rochester Junction, early 1970s. Another shot of the demolition of the Clover Street Lehigh Valley RR overpass. Keywords 2014 - 2023 Anthracite Railroads Historical Society, Inc. . Lehigh Valley westbound freight passing the canopies at Rochester Junction, looking east. 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: Lehigh Valley RR bridge over NYC Auburn branch near Phillips Rd. Reprinted with permission from The Lehigh Valley Railroad Across New Jersey, by Ralph Heiss. Note MT2 is OOS and ripped up just past the grade crossing. View is railroad West. 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 LV - Lehigh Valley Includes listings for Geneva Ithaca & Savre RR. 5212 was a class T2b 4-8-4 "Wyoming" type locomotive built by ALCO in 1943 for both passenger and freight service. However, Don Strack rescued the data and transferred it over to his UtahRails.net site (another fine resource). on April 6, 1976. Paul Templeton photo, Lehigh Valley RR e/b train passing through Mendon, NY on February 24, 1976. 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. Roughly a month after this photo was taken, The Lehigh Lehigh Valley Railroad would shut down forever and faded into history. Employees on 1938 The units were en route to M&K in Boise, ID for rebuild. published "The Railway Employees Journal." LV #217 RS-2 switching cars, Spring 1976. Double head signal #3731 was the approach signal for Quaker interlocking. Smoke still rising from what was left on April 24, 1973. The LV tried to diversify its traffic base after World War II but the road was built to handle coal and even had trouble competing against the Lackawanna, a well-managed system with a very competitive route of its own. 5/22/1973. Lehigh Valley Railroad local RM-2 passing through Mendon, NY on March 4, 1974. Lehigh Valley Railroad All-Time Locomotive Roster. 395 RAILROAD SLIDE - Steam on the Lehigh Valley at Lehighton, PA Sold by runawaytrainslv69 | Ends on 2023-03-08 23:03:39 . Unfortunately, after 1900 the company also had an on-again-off-again battle to maintain profitability. Alas, in 2013 the site closed. Kits that purport to be models of prototype LV cars, but in fact are inaccurate in a significant way, are listed in yellow italics. This property was located on the south side of East 149th Street and west of River Avenue. The train is seen from Erie Station Road overpass in town of Henrietta, NY during summer of 1976. If you are curious about the type and history of the Lehigh Valley engines that appear in this gallery, we recommend a visit to Scot Lawrences incomparable Lehigh Valley Railroad All Time Locomotive Roster (1853 1976). The left hand side would be where the ballfields are today. Train is Westbound. 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. Date unknown. MOW Rochester Junction, 1960s. 251. 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. Date unknown. Your email address will not be published. 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 Rahway Valley Railroad (RV) was a short-line railroad that operated in northern New Jersey from 1897 until its closure in 1992. Today, only . The ICC database can be accessed through the DOT website. These pages contain information about the prototype LVRR freight cars, with notes on available models. Mid 1970s. View is railroad west, and the tracks were gone on the other side of Plains Road by this time. So, its motto, Route Of The Black Diamond, Included in the sale was the saw mill for which the road was named. Lehigh Valley Railroad local RM-2 with a caboose hop at Mendon, NY June, 1972.
Bowflex M7u Upgrade Kit,
Couples Massage Tyler, Tx,
Funniest Toxic Things To Say,
Articles L