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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 .
The line opened on December 20, 1851, and ran north from Scranton, Pennsylvania, to Great Bend, Pennsylvania, just south of Pennsylvania's border with New York state. From Great Bend, the railroad obtained trackage rights north and west over the New York and Erie Rail Road to Owego, New York, where it leased the Cayuga and Susquehanna Railroad ...
This Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad passenger station, with its Italian Renaissance campanile, was built in 1901. [2] [3] For most years of passenger service to Binghamton, Delaware and Hudson Railway and Erie Railroad trains used a different station 150 yards away. [4] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in ...
A 1922 map of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, successor to the Lackawanna and Bloomsburg. The line from Northumberland to Scranton is shown at bottom center. The line reached Berwick in 1858, [ 5 ] and was the first railroad to reach Bloomsburg in the same year. [ 6 ]
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 ...
Operated through a subsidiary, Lackawanna Railroad of New Jersey, the Cut-Off remained in continual operation for 68 years, through the DL&W's 1960 merger with the Erie Railroad to form the Erie Lackawanna Railroad and the EL's conveyance into Conrail in 1976. Conrail ceased operation of the Cut-Off in January 1979, removed the track in 1984 ...
The Lackawanna County Railroad Authority was established in 1985 had over 16 million dollars in assets and operates more than 66 miles (106 km) of track in Lackawanna, Wayne and Monroe Counties. The Monroe County Rail Authority was created in 1980, and controlled over 12 million dollars in assets, with trackage totaling 29 miles (47 km).
Ulster and Delaware Railroad: New York, Lackawanna and Western Railway: DL&W: 1880 1945 Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad: New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad: ERIE: 1878 1895 Erie Railroad: New York and Long Beach Railroad: LI: 1880 1907 Long Island Rail Road: New York and Mahopac Railroad: NYC: 1871 1880 New York and Harlem Railroad