Inspired designs on tshirts, posters, stickers, home decor, and more by independent artists and designers from around the world. Guide to the erie lackawanna railway company records. Erie lackawanna story, the book hoboken historical museum. In 1960 the erie merged with the delaware, lackawanna, and western rr to form the erie lackawanna. Dust jacket has edge wear with small tears, book itself is in.
The books include works on specific railroad companies, histories of particular. In 1963 the company dropped the hyphen and became simply the erie lackawanna railroad. Industrial vernacular style alludes to buffalo and susquehanna railroad. Ns repaints erie lackawanna sd452 in original colors. This book focuses on diesel switchers that operated throughout the erie lackawanna system. The delaware, lackawanna and western railroads hoboken terminal is the only active surviving railroad terminal alongside the hudson river and is a nationally recognized historical site. This 50year saga of the weary erie goes far beyond describing in brilli. If you click on a link and it doesnt seem to work, then you need to turn off your popup blocker. Towns like chester and rockaway grew up around the railroads and mines that sustained them, and this book is a. Also included in this book are locomotive rosters for each. Delaware, lackawanna and western railroad wikipedia.
The time period covered here is mainly erie from the early days circa 1851 through the first two years of. Erie lackawanna railroad historical society home facebook. The new erielackawanna adopted the rectangular lackawanna logo and added the. He is the author of several books on american history and railroad industry, including, the corn belt. To commemorate the erie railroad anniversary, toms train terminal will set up a display of erie railroad model freight cars, and i will do a book signing on remembering the erie lackawanna. Originally known as liggets gap railroad, it was chartered in 1851 as the lackawanna and western. The locomotive was the first locomotive of ordered by the predecessor railroad. During the first decade of the 1900s, the railroad underwent a substantial modernization and improvement project, which was documented extensively by companyhired photographers. The erie railroad had a number of facilities in ohio including the one in kent as seen in this card postmarked 1914. If youre riding new jersey transits main line, port jervis line, bergen county line, boonton line, and many others, youre riding the exerie lackawanna.
The erie lackawanna railway the official motto of the line was the friendly service route. Eventually it ran from the lackawanna valley in pennsylvania west to buffalo, n. A book for railfans rather than an historical monograph. This book is a history of the management of the erie lackawanna railroad, the unique railroad that goes from new york to nowhere. The erie railroad reporting mark erie was a railroad that operated in the northeastern united states, originally connecting new york city more specifically jersey city, new jersey, where eries former terminal, long demolished, used to stand with lake erie. The erie was the jewel of new york and was the only railroad at the time. As the author vividly shows, the erie possessed an uncommonly interesting history. The erie railroad in history, photographs, and postcards. Company store erie lackawanna railroad historical society. Shoemaker was elected vicechairman of the new erie lackawanna railroad, with the expectation that he would be appointed president within a few months. Erie lackawanna sdp45 to leave virginia for ohio trains. This book is a must have for any fan of the erie, the delaware lackawanna and western or the erie lackawanna as it was called after the two railroads merged.
The erielackawanna railroad was one of the three major cleveland components of the conrail network which included the new york central railroad and the pennsylvania railroad. The delaware, lackawanna and western railroads hoboken terminal is the only active surviving railroad terminal alongside the hudson river and is a nationally recognized historical site erielackawanna railroad. The eries history began during the industrys earliest days and was once a dominant eastern carrier during the 19th century. The erie lackawanna railroad historical society, inc. It expanded west to chicago with its 1941 merger with the former atlantic and great western railroad, also known as the new york. The erie system, its organization and corporate history, by george h. Hardcover with dust jacket, 480 pages, published in 1974 by d. Erie lackawanna successor railroad to the delaware. Home railroads archives publications join online news events store contact links log in shopping cart home railroads. This page presents information of use to individuals researching ancestorsrelations who worked for the erie railroad. Erie lackawanna diner 741 was constructed by the pullman car company at pullman, ill.
For a brief time, it was the longest rail artery in the united states, hailed as the most stupendous engineering feat ever attempted in america. See more ideas about train, locomotive and railroad photography. An online gallery featuring a variety of images from the anthracite railroads of eastern pennsylvania. Railroad books tristate railway historical society. This 50year saga of the weary erie goes far beyond describing in brilliant detail the turbulent last decades of a colorful, spunky, and innovative railroad. They were commonly found on drills and yard jobs across the entire erie and later, erielackawanna system. Erie railroad terminal jersey city past and present. Mg300 scope and content note erie lackawanna railway.
After years of watching this locomotive sit in the yard, now is our chance to provide it with a better future and bring it back to northeast ohio, the former hub of the erie lackawanna railway. This is the definitive photo history of the erie lackawanna railroad, with a heavy emphasis on motive power. All orders are custom made and most ship worldwide within 24 hours. In 1956, the erie railroad moved out of the pavonia terminal for the lackawanna terminal in hoboken. The lackawanna railroad in northeastern pennsylvania by. The primary data source is the companys erie magazine. Erie lackawanna diesel locomotives, volume 1 railroad book.
High quality erie lackawanna gifts and merchandise. Anthracite railroads historical society digital archive. The leggetts gap railroad was incorporated on april 7, 1832, but stayed dormant for many years. Death of an american railroad, 19381992, the first train of dignitaries ran the entire length of the system on april 22nd that year. The book starts with the erie rr, and provides a history of that road, before going into the erie lakawanna and all of its trials and tribulations, with a few bright spots along the way toward the conrail merger. Roger grant is professor of history at the university of akron. The company came to operate a network of track between hoboken, new jersey, and buffalo, new york, before becoming part of the erie lackawanna railway in 1960. The history and future of the garment industry union. This circa 1908 view gives us a good downtrack look at the large erie railroad yards in binghamton, new york. Railroads in this region, like the lackawanna and central railroad of new jersey and their predecessors, greatly influenced the communities they served. In 1976 the organization and five other lines the had gone bankrupt were merged to form the conrail system, which in 1999 became part of the csx and norfolk southern railroads. Erie lackawanna c177 caboose whippany railway museum.
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