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The 469 is owned by the Dining Car Society, a nonprofit historical group based in Port Jervis, New York, and is planned to be [when?] restored as DL&W 469. [11] The 470 is owned by the owners of Genesee Valley Transportation and is stored on their Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad in Scranton, Pennsylvania awaiting a full restoration.
The Erie Lackawanna Railway was formed on March 1, 1968, as a subsidiary of Dereco, the holding company of the Norfolk and Western Railway, which had bought the railroad. On April 1, the assets were transferred as a condition of the proposed but never-consummated merger between the N&W and Chesapeake and Ohio Railway .
To save his company, Lackawanna president Perry Shoemaker sought a merger with the Nickel Plate Road, a deal that would have created a railroad stretching more than 1,100 miles (1,800 km) from St. Louis, Missouri and Chicago, Illinois to New York City and would have allowed the Lackawanna to retain the 200 miles (320 km) of double-track ...
The train included a Buffalo section with parlor and buffet service which split at Hornell, New York. [3] The primary competitors to the Erie Limited were the New York Central Railroad's 20th Century Limited and the Pennsylvania Railroad's Broadway Limited. Both trains were well-established on the New York–Chicago run and enjoyed several ...
Pennsylvania Railroad GG1 #4877 on display at the URHS facility. The United Railroad Historical Society of New Jersey, Inc. (or URHS of NJ) is a non-profit educational organization directed at supporting the preservation of New Jersey's historical railroad equipment and artifacts for the proposed New Jersey Transportation Heritage Center or in its absence, another railroad museum in New Jersey.
The Lackawanna Railroad announced on July 15, 1910, that a new station would be built at Lake Hopatcong, just east of the nearby county bridge. [13] The new station opened on May 28, 1911, a new all-concrete structure with two elevators and a complete walkway on the south side of the Morris Canal . [ 14 ]
New Jersey and New York Railroad: Rutherford: Nanuet: 20.7 miles (33.3 km) 1896- Founded as Hackensack and New York Railroad in 1856 Northern Railroad of New Jersey: Sparkill: Jersey City: 26.8 miles (43.1 km) 1859- Founded 1854 as Erie subsidiary Nyack and Southern Railroad: Nyack: Piermont: 4.343 miles (6.989 km) 1870- Middletown and Crawford ...
Kent continued to be a major stop on Erie's New York–Chicago trains throughout the first half of the twentieth century. Service continued through 1960 when the Erie merged with the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad to form the Erie Lackawanna Railway. Passenger service ended on January 4, 1970, with the final passing of the Lake Cities.