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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 .
Pages in category "Erie Lackawanna Railway" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
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.
Some of the former Erie line between Hornell and Binghamton was damaged in 1972 by Hurricane Agnes, but the damage was quickly repaired and today this line is a key link in the Norfolk Southern Railway's Southern Tier mainline. What was left of the Erie Lackawanna became part of Conrail in 1976. [1]
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
DL&W pages by the Erie Lackawanna Historical Society (archive, 11 Aug 2004) DL&W Booklet – The Story of the New Jersey Cutoff (archived, 26 Jan 2003) Erie Lackawanna Route Maps; Friendly, customized rail service on the Genesee Valley Transp. Co. website; Chronology of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company (archived, 30 Sep 2006)
Pages in category "Passenger trains of the Erie Lackawanna Railway" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Erie Limited was a streamlined passenger train operated by the Erie Railroad between Jersey City, New Jersey (for New York City) and Chicago, Illinois via the Southern Tier. It operated from 1929 to 1963. After the merger of the Erie and the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (DL&W) in 1960 it was known as the Erie-Lackawanna Limited ...