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	LEHIGH VALLEY RAILROAD
		The R1 steam locomotive (#4028) were the workhorses of the Wyoming Division.
		The Lehigh Valley East of Mauch Chunk by Greenberg and Fischer
		Railroads of the Lehigh River Valley by Randolph Kulp (Lehigh Valley Chapter NRHS)
	www.enter.net /~lvrr (1056 words)

	Lehigh Valley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Lehigh Valley is a region of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, located along the Lehigh River and including Lehigh County and Northampton County.
		The Lehigh Valley is historically important for its production of steel and anthracite coal.
		Recent Pennsylvania census studies show the Lehigh Valley as the fastest growing region in the state, primarily because of its growing popularity as a bedroom community for those working in New York City and Philadelphia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lehigh_Valley (257 words)

	Lehigh Valley Railroad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Delaware, Lehigh, Schuylkill and Susquehanna Railroad Company was incorporated April 21, 1846 in Pennsylvania.
		The railroad was built with the primary purpose of hauling anthracite.
		In 1976, the assets of the bankrupt Lehigh Valley Railroad were acquired by Conrail.
	pedia.newsfilter.co.uk /wikipedia/l/le/lehigh_valley_railroad.html (96 words)

	Lehigh Valley Railroad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Delaware, Lehigh, Schuylkill and Susquehanna Railroad Company (AAR reporting mark LV) was incorporated April 21, 1846 in Pennsylvania.
		By the 1890s, the Lehigh Valley Railroad stretched from New York Harbor to Tifft Terminal in Buffalo, New York, passing through the Lehigh River valley in Pennsylvania, and the Finger Lakes region of New York state.
		In 1916, land owned by the Lehigh Valley Railroad in New York Harbor was the site of the Black Tom Explosion.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lehigh_Valley_Railroad (289 words)

	Lehigh Valley Railroad
		The Lehigh Valley Railroad was born out of the need to have a reliable transportation of Anthracite Coal from the coal fields of Pennsylvania to the industrial area's in the East.
		By the turn of the century, the railroad extended from Jersey City, N.J. to the Terminals at Niagara Falls N.Y. and Buffalo, N.Y. (Tift Terminal) in the West.
		The Railroad was famous for it's premier train The Black Diamond Express which ran from New York City to Buffalo N.Y. The Lehigh Valley Railroad 1947 timetable shows the Lehigh as having three Divisions.
	www.lvrr.com (665 words)

	Lehigh Twp
		In 1880, the population of Lehigh Township was 36.
		In the same assessment, the Lehigh Valley Railroad owned 243 acres on the Porter House tract, 197 acres at Balliet's, 370 acres at James Moore, 187 acres at Penn Haven Junction, and a house each at Turn Hole, Bannin's, and Booth's.
		Black Creek Junction, located In the extreme northwest corner of the township, was a major depot for the Lehigh Valley Railroad which included the Quakake Branch (formerly the Lehigh and Mahanoy Railroad prior to the merger in 1866) and its northbound traffic to Weatherly.
	userweb.ccomm.com /sfpayer/CoalR/LehighTwp/LehighTwp.htm (2349 words)

	The Lehigh Valley Railroad
		Through a process of building and merging, the Lehigh Valley reached the Wyoming Coal fields near Wilkes-Barre, PA. The next extension was north for a merger with the Erie at Waverly, NY.
		In 1876, the Lehigh Valley purchased the Geneva, Ithaca and Sayre Railroad.
		(Circa) 1930 - The Lehigh Valley at its apex.
	members.tripod.com /njrails/20th_Century/LehighValley/LehighValley.htm (1841 words)

	ATSDR - PHA - Lehigh Valley Railroad Derailment Site (a/k/a Lehigh Valley Railroad), Leroy, Genesee County, New York
		A December 1970 railroad derailment in the Town of LeRoy, Genesee County, spilled 30,000 gallons of trichloroethene and caused extensive groundwater contamination.
		The Lehigh Valley Railroad Derailment site was a public health hazard in the past because of exposures to trichloroethene in some private drinking water supply wells at levels that could pose an increased risk of cancer and noncancer effects.
		The Lehigh Valley Railroad Derailment site is in a rural area in the Town of LeRoy, Genesee County, near the Livingston and Monroe County borders (Figure 1, Appendix A).
	www.atsdr.cdc.gov /HAC/PHA/lehighvalley/lvr_p1.html (5781 words)

	Lehigh Valley Railroad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Lehigh Valley rostered approximately 256 locomotives and 4660 freight cars, with which to service its custopers, and provide, by 1975, what had become essentially a bridge line type of freight service, consisting primarily of overhead traffic originating and terminating on a connecting railroad.
		The latter day Lehigh Valley freight service was characterized by a fair number of small switching yards along the railroad's main line, rather than a few larger ones, with which to classify freight for the various destinations on and off the line.
		On the Valley, as the railroad was sometimes referred to, all a freight shipper had to do to obtain transportation service for his goods was to call the nearby depot agent, located in the town in which the shipper had his business.
	pages.ivillage.com /generaljim1/theerielackawannalimited/id18.html (2320 words)

	Encyclopedia: Lehigh Valley Railroad
		The Lehigh River is a tributary of the Delaware River, approximately 103 mi (166 km) long, in eastern Pennsylvania in the United States.
		The Penn Central Transportation Company, normally called Penn Central, was an American railroad company, headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and formed by the merger on February 1, 1968 of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central Railroad; the New Haven was added to the merger at the insistence of the...
		Categories: Lehigh Valley Railroad July 26 is the 207th day (208th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 158 days remaining.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Lehigh-Valley-Railroad (1301 words)

	Lehigh Valley Railroad
		This year was a disastrous one for the valley of the Lehigh, and the railroad did not escape damage from the "great freshet" on the night of the 4th and the morning of the 5th of June, but the road was quickly restored to operation.
		In 1889 the Geneva, Ithaca and Sayre Railroad was operated as the Geneva and Sayre Division and later as the Ithaca branch of the Lehigh Valley Railroad.
		The Lehigh Valley undertook construction of new passenger and freight stations in the downtown section of Buffalo, in 1915.
	www.rootsweb.com /~paluzern/lvrr100.htm (4990 words)

	The Lehigh Canal - National Canal Museum - Hugh Moore Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Lehigh Navigation (referred to as the Lehigh Canal) was constructed to carry anthracite coal from the upper Lehigh Valley to Easton.
		The Lehigh Navigation also had the largest carrying capacity of any of the anthracite canals at the time of its completion since the locks were large enough to allow the passage of vessels which could carry over 200 tons of coal.
		In 1871 the Lehigh and Susquehanna was leased to the Central Railroad of New Jersey.
	www.canals.org /lehigh.htm (924 words)

	Motive Power of the Lehigh Valley Railroad
		The railroad project was embarked in for the purpose of gathering some of the natural riches of the Lehigh Valley, but the ambition of the promoters received scant sympathy and small financial support.
		There was a vague idea among them that the railroad would be used to convey coal and merchandise to the four rivers named in the charter for transport to the ocean, thence to the world of commerce.
		The Beaver Meadow Railroad was as famous for different locomotives it possessed as was the Lehigh Valley for the novel forms its people produced in developing locomotives adapted to hauling heavy loads over steep grades.
	www.catskillhistory.com /rrextra/lvhist.Html (3068 words)

	Bethlehem
		Lehigh Valley Railroad are on the south bank of the Lehigh River, their general direction being east and
		Lehigh Valley's tracks there are 2,400 feet of tangent, a 30' curve to the right which is 350 feet in
		Lehigh Valley ai1rod at Bethlehem he passed through one of the offices and noticed that the signals were
	www.lvrr.com /Dot-htmls/bethlehem.htm (3888 words)

	Lehigh Valley Railroad Historical Society \| History
		The Lehigh Valley Railroad began in the coal fields of Mauch Chunk (later Jim Thorpe), Pennsylvania.
		The heavy weight of all railroad items and the speed of the trains created an atmosphere where all employees had to be alert at all times.
		A suitable memorial to the Lehigh Valley railworkers will be designed and placed at the park in the future.
	www.lvrrhs.org /history (553 words)

	Rochester and Genesee Valley Railroad Museum
		Only three years apart in age, Lehigh Valley Railroad #211 waits to be switched while Eastman Kodak Company #9 idles in the background.
		With #9 having pulling NKP #79 from siding #6 and placed it on track #8 for some repairs, #1843 has now taken the lead on switching as it prepares to pull five cars from siding #6 to allow Eastman Kodak Company #6 to be placed on siding #6 next to the restoration building.
		The 9th annual edition of Diesel Days was a real success with nice weather, nearly 600 visitors over two days, and operations of several locomotives from the collection of the Rochester and Genesee Valley Railroad Museum including the first public demonstrations of #1, the RandGVRRM's Plymouth Model BL gas mechanical locomotive.
	www.rgvrrm.org (1003 words)

	The Bowman’s Creek Branch RR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Lewis employed a large number of East European immigrants, 300 men, to complete the railroad which reached Dallas in December 1886. He planned to headquarter his Back Mountain lumber business at the north corner of Harvey’s Lake, which became the village of Alderson, named after William C. Alderson, treasurer of the Lehigh Valley Railroad.
		There was a dispute between Lewis and the railroad company over the purchase price of Lewis’s vital link, and also over the rates the railroad would charge Lewis to use the line to haul timber.
		In 1970 the Lehigh Valley Railroad sought reorganization of its collapsing financial and operations structure under federal bankruptcy law. On April 1, 1976, the federal government’s sponsored Consolidation Rail Corporation (Conrail) absorbed the Lehigh Valley Railroad.
	www.harveyslake.org /bowmans.htm (302 words)

	Spring Creek Trestle
		The Spring Creek Trestle was formerly a part of the Lehigh Valley Railroad south of Lima, NY.
		The Lehigh Valley Railroad mainline through the Rochester, NY area was built beginning 1892.
		Then, as many local railroad fans tried to discover where Atwells was on the Lehigh Valley Railroad Hemlock branch (map) by discussing it on a railroad bulletin board, a longtime resident of the area mentioned that there is a substantial wooden curved trestle, and that it was still in existence, but highly inaccessible.
	paiges-page.net /LV (611 words)

	The Community Trader (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Lehigh Valley Railroad Historical Society, in cooperation with the Finger Lakes Scenic Railway, will sponsor fall foliage train excursions over the former New York Central "Auburn Road" railroad line between Shortsville and Geneva on Saturday, October 9, 2004, and Sunday, October 10, 2004.
		The Lehigh Valley Railroad Historical Society museum in the old New York Central freight station at 8 E. High St. in Shortsville will be open to passengers during the excursions.
		The Lehigh Valley Railroad Historical Society was organized in 1994 to preserve the memory of the Lehigh Valley Railroad and its employees in New York State.
	www.comtrader.com /archives/091504/front.html (370 words)

	Sayre Historical Society -Store (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This beautiful white china teapot featuring the Sayre Lehigh Valley Railroad station is the first in the series of the Heritage Collection.
		Packer's death, it was converted for use as a ward for injured railroad employees.
		These nails were placed in railroad ties to inform the section gang as to the year in which the tie was placed.
	www.sayrehistorical.com /STORE (262 words)

	Rahway Valley Railroad
		The Rahway Valley Railroad, which connected the Lehigh Valley Railroad in Roselle Park and the Central Railroad of New Jersey in Cranford with the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western in Summit, was one of the most successful short lines in US history, even turning a profit during the Great Depression.
		A battle is underway to determine the future of the Rahway Valley Railroad's rights-of-way, as Union County seeks to possibly reactivate the line, while the towns along the route seek to prevent this and otherwise dispose of the remaining land.
		Tthe primary interchange with the RVRR was at the former Lehigh Valley junction in Roselle Park.
	www.trainsarefun.com /rvrr/rvrr.htm (1260 words)

	Lehigh Valley Memories : A Tour of the Lehigh Valley Railroad in New York's Finger Lakes Region, 1941 - 1959 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Lehigh Valley Memories : A Tour of the Lehigh Valley Railroad in New York's Finger Lakes Region, 1941 - 1959
		Lehigh Valley Memories : A Tour of the Lehigh Valley Railroad in New York's Finger Lakes Region, 1941 - 1959 Review: Not just a great collector's item, but a well written story that one can't put down.
		Lehigh Valley Memories : A Tour of the Lehigh Valley Railroad in New York's Finger Lakes Region, 1941 - 1959 Review: Some well needed LVRR material from upstate New York.
	www.textkit.com /0_0942690400.html (218 words)

	Former Lehigh Valley Between McLean and Freeville
		This line was once part of the New York, Oswego, and Midland, later the Lehigh Valley's Auburn Branch which once left the LV mainline in Sayre, PA. The final thru train between Freeville and Cortland operated on March 31, 1976, the day before Conrail.
		I believe that this is the northern most substantial Lehigh bridge between Freeville and the end of track in Cortland.
		This bridge is the last extant railroad structure until the outskirts of Freeville.
	www.joshuakblay.com /lehightoday.htm (1170 words)

	Environmental Protection Agency
		A geologist hired by Lehigh Valley Railroad to investigate pollution resulting from the spill reported in March 1971 that approximately 30,000 gallons of TCE were spilled.
		The Lehigh Valley Railroad tried to alleviate the odors by flushing the chemical out of the surrounding fill sometime between March and June 1971.
		The Lehigh Valley Railroad provided drinking water to residents with contaminated wells beginning in June 1971, and later provided the installation and maintenance of charcoal-filtering systems at the affected wells.
	www.epa.gov /region02/superfund/npl/0203481c.htm (784 words)

	The Ledger: Lakeland, Polk County, Florida (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		My love of railroads began at an early age as several in my family worked on the railroad.
		Sayre was a division point for the Lehigh Valley Railroad and had a large yard with much activity.
		So as the call of railroading got into my blood, anything relating to trains was of interest.
	www.theledger.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050731/NEWS/507310362/1021 (517 words)

	Reading in the Lehigh Valley area
		The Lehigh Valley area was a focal point of several Northeastern railroads.
		Beside the Lehigh Valley railroad, the area was served by the Reading, Jersey Central, Lehigh and New England, Pennsylvania, Lehigh and Hudson River and the Lackawanna (later the E-L).
		Diesels from the CNJ, Reading, Lehigh Valley (after 1972), Lehigh and Hudson River, B and O, D and H and others could be found.
	www.thebluecomet.com /rdgbeth.html (445 words)

	Railroad Memorabilia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The station was formerly known as "Lafayette" after the French General, Marquis de Lafayette, who stayed at a farmhouse across the street on his way from the battle of Germantown to Valley Forge with George Washington in 1778.
		In 1846, the Delaware, Lehigh, Schuylkill and Susquehanna Railroad Company was formed to transport Pennsylvania anthracite coal, otherwise known as "Black Diamonds." It was renamed to the Lehigh Valley Railroad in 1853.
		In 1875, the Lehigh Valley RR built a connection to the PRR in Metuchen, NJ.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /guyanhorn/railroad_memorabilia.htm (1396 words)

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