Note station still stands. LVRR RM-2 crossing over the former NYC Auburn branch, 21 May 1974. LV Rochester Local 1.5 miles east of Mendon w/#128 SW900m leading. Town of Mendon work crew removing the rails and ties on the Lehigh Valley mainline at Old Dutch Road grade crossing in October, 1977. Packer's name may not be remembered as widely as Vanderbilt, Huntington, or Gould but he was a true visionary and adept businessmen who worked hard to transform his railroad into one of the Northeast's largest. A related industry that is also ripe for research is the locomotive builders. The Lehigh Valley had stopped running 9 months earlier! 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 Heading to Honeoye Falls and Lima on the Rochester Branch. 395 RAILROAD SLIDE - Steam on the Lehigh Valley at Lehighton, PA Sold by runawaytrainslv69 | Ends on 2023-03-08 23:03:39 . Box 3630 Greenville, DE 19807 (302) 658-2400 Urban Archives Paley Library Temple University Philadelphia, PA 19122 Many of us remember hearing stories about Grandpa Joe who worked for "the railroad." this was taken 2 years after the Lehigh Valley shut down, 1978. Taken from the south side on the very late afternoon of a chilly 16 December 1977. It is unlikely the Lehigh Valley could have survived into the modern era. Eastbound Black Diamond Passing the Lehigh Valley Tower at Rochester Junction, Spring 1950. American-Rails.com collection. Eastbound Lehigh Valley RR train passing through Mendon, NY, mid-September 1973. Westbound freight at Rochester Junction with the Bicentennial Caboose #1776. An interesting shot of a taxi at Rochester Junction, date unknown. Introduced pool service with the Nickel Plate Road Lehigh Valley Rochester Junction, early 1970s. Descriptions from the Official Railway Equipment Register (ORER) are supplemented with commonly used railfan and modeler descriptions, as appropriate. Discussion related to the Lehigh Valley Railroad and predecessors for the period 1846-1976. ! Paul Templeton photo, Lehigh Valley Railroad eastbound train at the Old Dutch Road grade crossing east of Mendon, NY. LVRR crossing in Mendon. Home Site Map Search Contact In the background is a Lehigh Valley passenger train headed east towards Mendon. This is now Mendon Station Park. A&K front end loader parked at NY Rt. One more day, and it would be over for the Lehigh Valley. View is to the east. Green Mountain & Berkshire. Great Northern. Lehigh Valley Eastbound freight crossing 3 track bridge over Honeoye creek, west of Rochester Junction, 1973. with no penalty on dispatcher orders. Presented here is a century-old collection of photographs and stories from Niagara Junction, part of the Lehigh Valley Railroad . Rochester Junction, 1960s. Just type in a town or city and click on the timeline of maps at the bottom of the page! Lehigh Valley Railroad All-Time Locomotive Roster. The Wyoming Valley is a historic section of the Susquehanna Valley that is served by the railroad. The units were en route to M&K in Boise, ID for rebuild. LV System Map Note the open phone cabinet extreme left. LVRR Cabooses - sorted by Location. 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. Pump house and tower can be seen in this photo. March 29, 1976, two days before the end of the Lehigh Valley. In 1865, the first passenger train was operated out of Delano to Mahanoy City. Available from the publisher online at. 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 That said, each year I see more records and sources posted online as archivists seek to digitize their holdings. NAME: POSITION: . stuck in someone else's frame, Lehigh Train originated at the former E-L Exchange St. yard. The EB is about to clear, and the WB is getting instructions from the dispatcher. 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]. March 30, 1976. 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. Construction began in 1850 around Mauch Chunk, PA. 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! 251 Mendon, NY March 19, 1974. October 19, 1980. The signal in distance is Quaker Interlocking. They were equipped. A&K Pettibone at the Lehigh Valley Railroad West Bloomfield road grade crossing in Mendon NY. The house behind the locomotive is now Benicasa hospice house. The Lehigh Valley Railroad Lvc Coal Railroad Steam Georgia United States The Unit Train RailPictures.Net Photo: LVC 126 Lehigh Valley Coal Co. The new two-story station was a brick . 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. LV Station looking west at Rochester Junction. Meyer Pearlman photo. December 28th, 1972. Steam 0-6-0 at St. Marys, United States by SeaboardRailfan You are signed out Sign in to get the best experience Continue with email Continue with Facebook By continuing, you agree to Pinterest's Lehigh Valley Railroad AP-2 with N&W pool power, Old Dutch Road, Mendon, NY, May 17, 1972. Lehigh Valley Railroad at Mendon NY, Looking eastbound. One of the B&O's original streamliners, the Abraham Lincoln, operated during its brief ownership of the Alton Railroad in the Midwest. Niagara Junction is the point in Depew, New York where East-West main line traffic could go North on the Niagara Falls branch to Tonawanda Junction, and then onto New York Central tracks over the . Date and photographer unknown. Lehigh Valley Railroad Quaker Meeting House Road July, 1977. The Lehigh Valley gave its 4-8-4 type locomotives a local name, rather than the "Northern" designation. The Easton/Phillipsburg area remained an important interchange location where the LV; Central Railroad of New Jersey; Lehigh & Hudson River; Pennsylvania (Bel-Del Division); and Delaware, Lackawanna & Western all met. Retirement records are available provided Grandpa was still working after 1936 when Railroad Retirement was instituted. The Locomotive has just crossed over a small bridge the Boy Scouts refurbished some years back. The station had burned to the ground a year before. Lehigh Valley Railroad Extra 412 East crossing the Genesee River bridge near Industry, NY. The R.O.W. The site requires that you be a registered user, and it's easy to register. Date unknown. View is east. List of Railroad Employees With their years and location of service. Tracks were gone summer of 1977, this picture was taken in Feb, 1978. Number 568 is leading here. Although Mikado no. Thanks also to the Honeoye Falls Town of Mendon Historical Society for several of these. This view looks east from inside the interlocking tower, with the station behind the photographer. Despite only measuring 15.28 miles in length, which included freight sidings, the RV was a vibrant and prosperous railroad. I have completed indexing the entire 660 issue run of Eries and the database of employees is now over 250,000. Dunn Oil Co. at the end of Mill Road, Mendon, February 5, 1952. The Lehigh Valley Railroad occupied Pier 66 on the Hudson River. Still rule 251, Automatic Block System. All tracks still in place but ConRail was only using the crossover at the junction to take cars to/from Honeoye falls and lima. DieselSteamElectric GitHub export from English Wikipedia. Availability of rosters, once again, varies by railroad, and the accuracy of data in advertising rosters, including name spellings, varies widely. Eastbound Lehigh Valley freight train, led by Alco FAs, east of Rochester Junction. The Lehigh Valley had been gone for two years at this point. The Lehigh Valley had 27 EMD SW8's, the largest population of a single diesel model on the LV. 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. (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. Pitchers: B/T: HT: WT: DOB: Status: MLB 40-man: Mark . The Great Depression hit the company particularly hard and it struggled to make ends meet after World II, postings its last profits during the 1950s. In 1998 a gentleman by the name ofAndre Kristopans put together a web page highlighting virtually every unit out-shopped by General Motors' Electro-Motive Division. |LV by Jame Mack Lehigh Valley-318 with wreck train at Rochester Jct, 08/24/74. All written content, photos, and videos copyright American-Rails.com (unless otherwise noted). 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. LV eastbound signal 379-2 at Rochester Junction. Early 1970s. Additional information/updates by: Martin Baumann and Joseph O'Mara 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. 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. Never had confirmation of that story, however. Lehigh Valley Steam Roster Click hereif you are stuck in someone else's frame Photo Contributions Welcome Click on a Engine Number to view it. Meyer Pearlman photo. Employee rosters are another source of names and such information as seniority dates and positions. It is about to cross West Bloomfield Road. Train is on the Rochester Branch. Available from the publisher online at Arcadia Publishing or by calling 888-313-2665. This little system was originally chartered onApril 7, 1830 to serve mines nearBeaver Meadows, Pennsylvania for the transportation of coal to Easton. By April of 1962 it, incredibly, controlled 90% of the road. The entire history of Delano and the Lehigh Valley is along with some very rare photographs. Lehigh Valley Railroad Company records, 1870-1962. Lehigh Valley Railroad Apollo-1 passing through Rochester Jct. Lehigh Valley Railroad local RM-2 passing through Mendon, NY on March 4, 1974. |LV History Originally founded in 1846 as the Delaware, Lehigh, Schuylkill, and Susquehanna Railroad Company, it changed its name to Lehigh Valley in 1853. Unfortunately, the DLS&S was having difficulty raising capital, in part due to the efforts of the LC&N. This is part of the Lehigh Valley Trail. This property was located on the south side of East 149th Street and west of River Avenue. Lehigh Valley westbound freight at Rochester Junction, early 1970s. 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. Prior to 1880, Erie motive power was used. Motorcars Notice the man on the second telegraph pole. Lehigh Valley (10) Linde (12) LLPX Leasing (3) LMSX Leasing (2) Locomotive Leasing Companies (43) Locomotive Sill Stripes - Full Length (2) Locomotive Sill Stripes - Short (4) .