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For example, in 1971, the Penn Central advertised a 24 and 1/2 hour piggyback service from Metro New York to Metro Chicago in the Official Guide of the Railways, while the EL's Employees Timetable Number 3, New York Division, showed its fastest comparable schedule to be 28 hours and 45 minutes. By 1973, the Penn Central's fastest piggyback ...
The Delaware Valley Railway was organized with visions of linking the Lackawanna north to the Erie Railroad at Port Jervis, New York [1] beginning with plans in 1893 and construction in 1901. Trains ran north from East Stroudsburg only as far as Bushkill , and the twelve-mile line was abandoned in 1937.
Other Lackawanna trains also served Syracuse and Utica, New York to the north and Scranton, the Poconos and northern New Jersey to the south. [5] Erie Railroad trains joined the DL&W trains at the station in 1958. [6] Trains such as the Lake Cities, the Erie Limited and the Atlantic Express/Pacific Express served Chicago to the west and Hoboken ...
The Lackawanna Railroad in Northwestern New Jersey by Larry Lowenthal and William T. Greenberg, Jr., Tri-State Railway Historical Society, Inc., 1987. Farewell to the Lackawanna Cut-Off (Parts I-IV), by Don Dorflinger, published in the Block Line, Tri-State Railway Historical Society, Inc., 1984–1985. Grant, H. Roger (1994).
The Lake Cities began in 1939 as the Midlander, a Jersey City to Chicago service with sections to Cleveland, and Buffalo, New York.From its eastern terminus, the Erie's Pavonia Terminal in Jersey City, the route ran through Port Jervis to Binghamton, New York over the traditional Erie main line through Sullivan and Orange County in New York's Southern Tier and on to Chicago.
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.
Erie and New York City Railroad: Erie main line at Salamanca: Pennsylvania Line near Niobe in Harmony: 47.7 miles (76.8 km) 1868–1880, 1874–1880, 1883-1960 Founded in 1862, as all three railroads merged were renamed in their respective states as the A&GW Railway. Reorganized as the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Railway in 1880 Meadville ...
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.