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	Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad Station -- National Register of Historic Places Delaware and Lehigh ...
		The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Station, built during the years 1907-1908 at a cost of $ 601,780.96 in the Neo-Classical Revival style by the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Company, is one of the most impressive buildings in Scranton.
		The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad was one of the most important railroads in the northeast region of Pennsylvania.
		Anthracite coal was a major factor in the growth of the railroad, and by 1925 the company owned or controlled through lease nearly all coal underlying West Scranton and had also acquired large areas in other parts of the county as well as in Luzerne County.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/delaware/wrr.htm (431 words)

	Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It merged with the Erie Railroad in 1960, forming the Erie Lackawanna Railroad, and Conrail in 1976.
		On the New Jersey side of the Delaware River, the Warren Railroad was chartered February 12, 1851 to continue from the bridge over the river southeast to Hampton on the Central Railroad of New Jersey.
		The New York, Lackawanna and Western Railroad was chartered August 26, 1880 and opened September 17, 1882 to continue the DLandW from Binghamton west and northwest to Buffalo.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Delaware,_Lackawanna_and_Western_Railroad (1107 words)

	Erie Lackawanna Railway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Erie Lackawanna Railway (AAR reporting mark EL), known as the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad until 1968, was formed from the 1960 merger of the Erie Railroad and the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad.
		The Lackawanna route was severely affected by the decline of anthracite and cement traffic from Pennsylvania by the 1940s.
		The Erie Lackawanna Railway was formed March 1, 1968 as a subsidiary of Dereco, the holding company of the Norfolk and Western Railway, and on April 1 the assets were transferred.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Erie_Lackawanna_Railroad (981 words)

	ELHS - Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Home Page
		It was consolidated with the Lackawanna and Western in 1853 to form the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad.
		By 1860 it extended west to the Delaware River at Phillipsburg, N. The Lackawanna leased it in 1869 to avoid having to use the Central of New Jersey.
		Lackawanna management prevented Gould from acquiring control of the road, but Gould's proposed extension to Buffalo was built: The New York, Lackawanna and Western was incorporated in 1880 and leased to the DLandW in 1882, changing the DLandW from a regional railroad to a New York-Buffalo trunk line.
	www.erielackhs.org /Lackawanna/LACKHOME.html (986 words)

	Trains.com - Railroad Organizations
		The Erie Lackawanna Historical Society, Inc. is an organization of over 1,100 individuals interested in the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad; the Erie Railroad; the Erie Lackawanna Railway; and related lines.
		The Erie Lackawanna Historical Society was founded by a group of model train and railfan enthusiasts in 1971.
		In 1983 the Erie Railfan Society was reincorporated as the Erie Lackawanna Historical Society, Inc. This allowed the name of the Society to better reflect the focus and mission of its goals of providing coverage of not only the Erie and the Erie Lackawanna, but also the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western.
	www.trains.com /trc/community/rrorganizations/group-info.asp?groupid=1286 (444 words)

	Erie Lackawanna Railroad, Delaware Lackawanna Railroad – EncycloMedia.com
		The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (DL&W) was born in 1853.
		The Erie Lackawanna Railroad was purchased in 1968 by the Norfolk and Western Railway, but went into bankruptcy four years later in 1972 when Hurricane Agnes swept through NY State.
		The history of the Lackawanna Railroad illustrates the evolution of the economy at the expense of one of its heritage industries.
	www.encyclomedia.com /erie_lackawanna_railroad.html (1117 words)

	Newton, NJ - Sussex Railroad
		First Mortgage Bondholders of the Sussex Railroad met at the Cochran House in Newton on December 17, 1857, and proposed a change in the management and ownership of the railroad, whereby it would come under local control and be operated and improved as a valuable adjunct to the town and county.
		The railroad was to be further extended to Hamburg and Vernon, with the ultimate hope of a connection with the Warwick Valley Railroad, a branch of the Erie.
		Samuel Sloan, President of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, in company with John I. Blair, William E. Dodge, Moses Taylor, William Walter Phelps and Seldon Scranton, all prominent railroad men, accompanied a number of local stockholders of the Sussex Railroad on an excursion to Franklin on July 23, 1872.
	www.newtonnj.net /Pages/railroad.htm (12188 words)

	Trains (Erie Lackawanna) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The DL&W, (Delaware, Lackawanna and Western) railroad was chartered in 1815.
		The Lackawanna prospered in the early 20th century, but with the decline of coal heating and the rise of competing modes of transportation, its revenues fell.
		The Erie Lackawanna was envolved with 7 other railroad companies in a supreme court case against the merger of the Pennsylvania and New York Central Railroads in 1966.
	home.ptd.net /~laamb/trains/dlw.htm (471 words)

	Delaware,Lackawanna and Western Railroad
		By 1959, the Lackawanna Railroad was divided into two operating divisions;Morris and Essex and Scranton-Buffalo, rather than the three division structure of Morris and Essex, Scranton, and Buffalo divisions as operated in the past.
		The Lackawanna Railroad is also remembered for its efforts to accommodate all who wanted to travel on its trains by running its feature trains in multiple sections during peak travel periods, such as major holidays.
		The Lackawanna RR corporation may be gone, but the railroad's spirit lives on in the commuter trains, timetables, and the people staffing the trains, Hoboken Terminall and other stations.
	generaljim1.tripod.com /id12.html (932 words)

	Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railway
		In the mid-1920's, the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western's Morris & Essex Division
		Pictorial of the Syracuse & Utica branches, today operated by the New York, Susquehanna, and Western Railway Corp. In 1983, Conrail sold the former DL&W/EL lines to the Delaware Otsego Corp. which today operates it as the Northern Division of the NYS&W. October 2004 marked the 150th anniversary of the completion of the Syracuse line.
		On passenger trains, railroads operated lots of equipment other than sleepers, coaches, dining cars, etc. This equipment was generally called 'head-end' equipment, these 'freight' cars were at one time plentiful and highly profitable for the railroads.
	www.lakemirabel.com /Railroad/DLandW1.html (1810 words)

	Delaware Lackawanna & Western #425 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The Delaware Lackawanna and Western Railroad name was first incorporated in 1853 as part of a consolidation of several smaller lines in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
		During the 1880's coal traffic increased, and the Lackawanna became known as the "Road of Anthracite." By the 1950's, the Lackawanna began friendly relations with the Erie Railroad to consolidate some terminal facilities and redundant routes.
		The resultant Erie Lackawanna Railroad struggled through the turbulent 1960's and was eventually absorbed by Conrail in 1976.
	www.mcrwy.com /collectn/stlpas/dlw425.html (315 words)

	Friends and Links
		Erie Lackawanna Historical and Technical Society - The founding members of the Erie Lackawanna Historical and Technical Society would like to welcome and invite you to become a charter member in a bold new concept in rail historical societies, but which still retains the benefits of more traditional organizations.
		Abandoned Railroads of the United States: Thousands of miles of railroads have been abandoned in the United States, much of it in the last 30 years.
		is a chapter of the NRHS (National Railway Historical Society), focusing on the history of the railroads and related social, economic, and cultural institutions of the Catskill and Hudson Valley regions with special concentration on the Ulster and Delaware Railroad and its predecessors.
	www.mnjrhs.org /friends_links.html (1241 words)

	Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Originally known as Ligget's Gap Railroad, it was chartered in 1851 as the Lackawanna and Western.
		Eventually it ran from the Lackawanna Valley in Pennsylvania west to Buffalo, N.Y., north to Lake Ontario, and east to Hoboken, N.J. The Lackawanna prospered in the early 20th century, …
		Railroads serve many thousands of communities, from big cities in highly developed nations to tiny villages in remote areas.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9029804?tocId=9029804 (902 words)

	The DL&W Railroad
		The Lackawanna System, in common with other large railroads, is composed of numerous smaller corporations that were absorbed during the years of its existence.[2] Originally chartered as the Morris and Essex Railroad.
		The Miners, Manufacturers and Farmers Railroad was chartered, but it was financially still-born and the directors of the M and E continued their building program by breaking ground for the Dover extension, the first train ran through on July 31at 1848.
		The later, formed of the merger of two smaller industrial railroads that were built to deliver rails, the Liggett’s Gap Railroad and the Delaware and Cobb’s Gap Railroad, which was originally intended to link with the Eire.
	www.jcrhs.org /dlw.html (3525 words)

	The History of the Lackawanna Valley--Railroad Pennsylvania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The advantages of railroads were neither understood nor encouraged by the inhabitants of the valley in 1832, because the slow ox-team or jaded saddle-horse thus far had kept pace with its development.
		After the locomotive railroad from the Lackawanna Valley had become a fixed fact by the genial efforts of those to whom its failure or its success had been intrusted, other roads began to spring into a charter being.
		While the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad, with its greater length of thirty-three miles, carried 187,583 passengers during the year 1867, the Lackawanna and Bloomsburg transported 269,564—an excess of 81, 981 persons.
	www.catskillarchive.com /rrextra/abpa04.Html (9129 words)

	THE LACKAWANNA TRAIL - A pictorial venture through the early history of of PA Route 11, The Lackawanna Trail
		Interurban from Scranton to Montrose with a branch to the Amusement park at Lake Winola.
		"When Delaware, Lackawanna and Western President Truesdale rebuilt the Lackawanna in the early part of this century, the roadbed was relocated from the bottom of the valley to the top of the hills between Scranton and Big Bend.
		Factoryville, PA "Horseshoe curve at Factoryville on the Lackawanna Trail"
	lackawannatrail.railfan.net (654 words)

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		The DLandW was chartered in 1851 as the Lackawanna and Western to become an anthracite carrier.
		In 1853 when the Delaware and Cobbs Gap railroad was merged into the LandW, the new railroad became the DLandW.
		This railroad ran from the water gap to a connection with the CNJ at Hampton Jct.
	members.tripod.com /njrails/20th_Century/DelawareLackawannaWestern/Delaware_Lackawanna_and_Western.htm (1215 words)

	Conrail -- Historical Information, Mohawk & Hudson Chapter, National Railway Historical Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The Lackawanna used Phoebe Snow, a creation of their advertising department, as a symbol of the road, able to be travelling in white because Lackawanna burned relatively clean burning anthracite, or hard coal, instead of the more sooty-burning bituminous, or soft coal.
		The Liggett's Gap merged with the Delaware and Cobb's Gap to form the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western in 1853.
		Ultimately, the Delaware Lackawanna and Western Railroad ran along 998 miles of track between Hoboken, N.J. and Buffalo, N.Y. Following the Erie-Lackawanna bankruptcy and conveyence of trackage, the DandH had the old Liggett's Gap route to Binghamton.
	www.crisny.org /not-for-profit/railroad/cr_hist.htm (839 words)

	The Buffalo History Works' Photograph Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Such was was case of the double set of railroad bridges that crossed Colvin Avenue in North Buffalo between Taunton Place and Saunders Road.
		The residents of Taunton had their back yards end right at the railroad tracks so it was impossible to keep the soot from the steam engine's smoke stacks from covering clean laundry hanging out to dry!
		The Erie Railroad merged with the Lackawanna in 1963 and their Black Rock branch was abandoned shortly thereafter.
	www.buffalohistoryworks.com /photograph/others/pic51.htm (447 words)

	RR Museum of PA - RR History Timeline 2
		The Delaware, Lehigh, Schuylkill and Susquehanna Railroad is chartered to build a line from Mauch Chunk to Easton, Pa.; in 1853 it is renamed the Lehigh Valley Railroad.
		May 10, The completion of the nation's first transcontinental railroad is celebrated at Promontory Summit, Utah with the driving of a golden spike.
		June, The Great Railroad Strike erupts into labor violence on the BandO and spreads across the country to the Pennsylvania Railroad's Pittsburgh Yard; many lives are lost and rolling stock is extensively damaged.
	www.rrmuseumpa.org /education/historytimeline2.htm (495 words)

	Railwear - Lackawanna
		The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad was the Route of Phoebe Snow.
		A beautiful coffee mug of one of the Lackawanna Railroads colorful "E" unit diesel passenger locomotives, in command of the beautiful flagship "Phoebe Snow" passenger train, in classic Lackawanna live...
		The Lackawanna Railroad streamlined several elderly steam locomotives in their own shops, and this design represents one of those locomotives.
	www.rebelrails.com /shop/index.php?action=category&id=39 (271 words)

	Silent Rails
		The Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad built the 28 mile long New Jersey Cutoff between 1908 and 1911.
		The Lackawanna owned large deposits of it in the Scranton, Pa. area, the mines and breakers to produce it, and the railroad it moved on.
		The Lackawanna's primary freight route to New York was sold to make way for Interstate 80 in the 1960's, making connections to the Cutoff more difficult.
	fp.users.fast.net /jprock/silent.htm (843 words)

	Pequest Fill - The Lackawanna Cutoff - Then & Now - presented by the GSMRRClub (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The Lackawanna Limited comes off the west end of the Pequest Fill in 1914 shortly after the Cut-Off was opened.
		Photo from The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad in the Twentieth Century, Volume 1, by Thomas T. Taber III, Copyright 1980.
		The Lehigh and Hudson River Railroad crossed under the Cutoff in the middle of the Pequest Fill.
	www.gsmrrclub.org /HISTORY/history5e.html (373 words)

	Railroads (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		In the 1860's central New York was infected with railroad fever.
		The New York Oswego and Midland Railroad company, later the New York, Ontario and Western, was incorporated Jan. 11, 1866 and was opened from Oswego to Norwich, a distance of one hundred miles, in November, 1869.
		The railroads were vital to the economy of the area.
	www.ascent.net /northnorwich/Railroad.htm (273 words)

	Transit Guide - History Timeline \| Morris County Division of Transportation
		When railroads were built in the early portion of the 19th century, travel became accessible to the masses.
		The first railroad came to Morris County in October 1837, when train service between Madison and Newark began on the Morris and Essex Railroad, which today is NJ Transit's Morristown Line.
		The Morris and Essex Railroad was purchased by the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad (DLandW) in the later half of the 1800's and became the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad in October 1866 when the DLandW and the Erie Railroad merged.
	www.co.morris.nj.us /transportation/transitguide/transitguide-timeline.asp (680 words)

	Susquehanna Life
		The Delaware Lackawanna and Western Railroad built the viaduct — dubbed "Nicholson Bridge" by the townspeople — from 1912 to 1915 as part of its 39.5-mile Clark’s Summit — Hallstead Cutoff.
		At ground level, the Lackawanna mainline delivered supplies to the viaduct’s base, and a narrow-gauge steam railroad moved concrete — later to be dumped from cable cars — and other material over temporary tracks on the valley floor.
		In fact, when you’re on Route 11, you might be driving on the railroad, since quite a bit of it was graded and paved.
	www.susquehannalife.com /train.htm (948 words)

	Steamtown National Historic Site -- National Register of Historic Places Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor ...
		As the railroad acquired more track and equipment in the 19th century, the size of the yard expanded from approximately 25 to 40 acres to accommodate additional operation and repair facilities.
		In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad served as one of the major anthracite lines.
		The current steam era buildings that have been listed in the National Register as the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Yard-Dickson Manufacturing Yard, and are now part of the Steamtown National Historic Site, were erected primarily between 1899 and 1917 with a remnant of the 1937 roundhouse also present.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/delaware/dic.htm (573 words)

	The DL&W Railroad
		The Lackawanna System, in common with other large railroads, is composed of numerous smaller corporations that were absorbed during the years of its existence.[2] Originally chartered as the Morris and Essex Railroad.
		The Miners, Manufacturers and Farmers Railroad was chartered, but it was financially still-born and the directors of the M and E continued their building program by breaking ground for the Dover extension, the first train ran through on July 31at 1848.
		The later, formed of the merger of two smaller industrial railroads that were built to deliver rails, the Liggett’s Gap Railroad and the Delaware and Cobb’s Gap Railroad, which was originally intended to link with the Eire.
	jcrhs.org /dlw.html (3525 words)

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