Fortunately, grain tonnage was increasing and the company transported large quantities from Buffalo to Philadelphia and other Eastern markets. ft.), Northern Central Railroad / Mortgage of the Northern Central Railway to Wistar Morris and Josiah Bacon, Trustees, 1868. The line became known as the Lehigh Line during Conrail ownership. (.1 cu. A long segment west from Van Etten Junction to Buffalo was included in the Conrail takeover, but was mostly torn-up not long afterward. Annual Report of the State Board of Assessors of the State of New Jersey, News Printing Co., 1889, p.85. ft.), Coxe Brothers and Company, Inc. / Appendix to Estimates of Coal on Properties Owned or Controlled, 1925. Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps. (1 cu. Fowler's Panoramac Bird's Eye Maps, 1884-1905, recently added railroad maps that may not be included in the old topical sections (search for the word "rail" or "railroad"). [44] In 1957, the LVRR again stopped dividends. Language: These maps, bridge and structure drawings remains unprocessed. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Contract Book of George B. Roberts, 1869-1884. The Valuable Papers are arranged numerically by file number, and are indexed by 27 rolls of 16 mm microfilm (roll #s RRV 1073-1099) in a variety of ways: alphabetically by personal or corporate name of parties, alphabeticaly by name of geographical location, and numerically by file number. [1][9] To reach Wilkes-Barre, the LVRR purchased the Penn Haven & White Haven Railroad in 1864, and began constructing an extension from White Haven to Wilkes-Barre that was opened in 1867. After the U.S. entered World War I, the railroads were nationalized in order to prevent strikes and interruptions. Joy and Lancaster Railroad / Minute Book of the Committee on Real Estate and the Road, 1850-1855. (21 cu. In 1883 the railroad acquired land in northeast Pennsylvania and formed a subsidiary called The Glen Summit Hotel and Land Company. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / General Correspondence Files of the St. Lawrence Power Project, 1948-1954. ft.), Enola Realty Company / Minute Books, 1905-1931. (2.25 cu. (4 cu. ft.) {#286m.254}. In addition, we now hold a physical volume entitled Real Estate Atlas of the Western Pennsylvania Railroad, Butler Division, [ca. By 1931, the PRR controlled 51% of the LVRR stock. Lehigh Gorge Trains are located at 1 Susquehanna Street, Jim Thorpe, PA 18229 #570-325-8485 . (.1 cu. (.2 cu. By controlling supply, the coal combination attempted to keep prices and profits high. The Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad is a defunct railroad that operated in eastern Pennsylvania during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Lehigh Valley Railroad was another of the many Northeastern carriers built to move anthracite coal from eastern Pennsylvania. In 1880, the LVRR established the Lehigh Valley Transportation Line to operate a fleet of ships on the Great Lakes with terminals in Chicago, Milwaukee, and Duluth. (1.25 cu. (.12 cu. (13 cu. ft.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / Statements of Additions and Betterments (GA-8), 1918-1929, 1931-1932. The Pennsylvania Railroad in 1962 requested ICC authorization to acquire complete control of the LVRR through a swap of PRR stock for LVRR and elimination of the voting trust that had been in place since 1941. At Catasauqua, the Catasauqua and Fogelsville Railroad transported coal, ore, limestone and iron for furnaces of the Thomas Iron Company, the Lehigh Crane Iron Company, the Lehigh Valley Iron Works, the Carbon Iron Company, and others. (.2 cu. 1902 - NYC introduces The 20th Century Limited. President of the Lehigh Valley System Through War, He Recently Retired", Lehigh Valley Railroad Historical Society, Luzerne County PAGenWeb (One Hundred Years of The Lehigh Valley), Lehigh Valley pages on Western NY Railroad Archive, Beyond Steel: An Archive of Lehigh Valley Industry and Culture, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lehigh_Valley_Railroad&oldid=1141748396. (.1 cu. (2 cu. The former Lehigh Valley tracks between Manville, New Jersey, and Newark are operated separately by Conrail Shared Assets Operations as their own Lehigh Line. ft.), PRR / VP of Special Services / Penn Central Merger Files, 1963-1965. While the records are primarily legal documents rather than maps, information provided includes the effective date, purpose, names of interacting parties, terms, financial arrangements, and description of principle right or property conveyed. [1], The length of the line from Mauch Chunk to Easton was 46 miles of single track. [8] The purchasing of the North Branch Canal saw an opportunity for a near monopoly in the region north of the Wyoming Valley. Post Conrail ownership and secondary lines. The purpose of the Temple Iron Company was to lock-up independent coal production and control the supply. ft.), Clearfield and Jefferson Railway / Annual Reports, 1886-1888. Lehigh Valley Railroad Station was a beautiful building that dated back to 1890. (.3 cu. ft.), PRR / VP Eastern Region / Letter Books, 1924-1926. (.6 cu. ft.), PRR / VP of Altoona Works / Record of Operating Expenses of the Juniata Shop, 1914-1918. ft.), PRR / Secretary / One Hundredth Anniversary Historical Files, ca 1876-1946. Another series relating to PRR real estate holdings, rights of way and agreements is the Valuable Papers File, [ca. Passenger traffic on the LVRR's Easton and Amboy connected with the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) at Metuchen, New Jersey, and continued to the PRR'S Exchange Place terminus in Jersey City (that connection was discontinued in 1891 after the LVRR established its own route to Jersey City from South Plainfield). Parts. The line and the rest of the Lehigh Valley Railroad was absorbed into Conrail in 1976 and was maintained as a main line into the New York City area. The owners still owned the property, but the railroad was allowed to conduct agreed-upon activities on the swath in question. ft.), Mifflin and Centre County Railroad / Monthly Construction Accounts, 1862-1869. (92 cu. (1.1 cu. (.1 cu. Congress reacted with the 1906 Hepburn Act, which among other things forbade railroads from owning the commodities that they transported. The series listed below contain scattered information and/or maps of PRR and Penn Central real estate holdings in Manuscript Group 286. (.2 cu. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Printed Abstracts of Title, 1869, 1875. 1850-1967] (157 cu. ft.), Peoria and Eastern Railway / Annual Reports, 1928-1936, 1938-1961, 1963-1966, 1970-1973, 1976. In 1920, the LVRR sold its lake line company, the Lehigh Valley Transportation Line, to private interests due to new federal legislation which stopped the practice of railroads owning lake lines. Lehigh Valley Railroad System Maps RAILFAN GUIDES HOME RAILROAD SIGNALS HOME More info at: http://www.lehighvalleyrr.com/ http://www.marjum.com/niagjct/index.html http://www.railroad.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=128&t=1907 I wonder what it is with the name CHUNK that "they" wanted to use it twice? The railroad ended operations in 1976 and merged into Conrail along with several northeastern railroads that same year. (.3 cu. Passengers preferred the convenience of automobiles to trains, and airlines much later provided faster long-distance travel than trains. (.1 cu. (35 cu. It also continued to grow and develop its routes in Pennsylvania. Through neglect, the Reading allowed the charter to lapse, and it was acquired by the Lehigh Valley, which immediately constructed the Schuylkill and Lehigh Valley Railroad. At Easton, the LVRR constructed a double-decked bridge across the Delaware River for connections to the CNJ and the Belvidere Delaware Railroad in Phillipsburg. Finally after settling the legal issues, the Newark Bay was bridged in 1892 by the Jersey City, Newark and Western Railway and connected to the National Docks Railway, which was partly owned by the LVRR and which reached the LVRR's terminal. Original file (SVG file, nominally 800 600 pixels, file size: 447 KB). ft.), PRR / VP Central Region / Blueprint Track Chart of Branch Lines, 1938. Morgan. (.15 cu. to Glen Summit Springs (.1 cu. The South Basin terminal was used solely for freight, having docks and car float facilities. [5], At Easton, the LVRR interchanged coal at the Delaware River where coal could be shipped to Philadelphia on the Delaware Division Canal or transported across the river to Phillipsburg, New Jersey, where the Morris Canal and the Central Railroad of New Jersey (CNJ) could carry it to the New York City market. Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Collection Number: 3362 Abstract: Financial records, reports, schedules, blueprints, and other records of railway lines in central and western New York State. ft.), Johnsonburg Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. Among them: The primary passenger motive power for the LVRR in the diesel era was the ALCO PA-1 car body diesel-electric locomotive, of which the LVRR had fourteen. (17 cu. (.4 cu. In the years leading to 1973, the freight railroad system in the northeast of the U.S. was collapsing. ft.), Philadelphia and Erie Railroad / Minute Book of the Road Committee, Finance Comm. (.1 cu. [38] Through bonds issued by the D&H, he obtained 30% of the LVRR stock, and won the support of nearly half the stockholders. (.1 cu. Map of the Pennsylvania, Reading, and Lehigh Valley Railroads, and their connections. ft.), Philadelphia and Erie Railroad / Report to the Superintendant of the Tenth Census, 1880. (.21 cu. The Delaware, Lehigh, Schuylkill and Susquehanna Railroad (DLS&S) was authorized by the Pennsylvania General Assembly on April 21, 1846, to construct a railroad from Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, now Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, to Easton, Pennsylvania. Order #20 of ICC, 1916-1921. In 1972, the Lehigh Valley Railroad assumed the remaining Pennsylvania trackage of the Central Railroad of New Jersey, a competing anthracite railroad which had entered bankruptcy as well. Dates / Origin Date Issued: 1887 Place: Philadelphia? (2 cu. ft.), Manor Real Estate and Trust Company / Ledgers, 1903-1925. [13] With these acquisitions, the LVRR obtained the right to mine coal as well as transport it. (.02 cu. ft.), Valley Real Estate Company / Cash Book, 1907-1922. Today, this route continues as two lines, one that is considered the original line that served as the main line for the Lehigh Valley Railroad and the other that is considered a new line that was once part of the original line that served as the main line for the Lehigh Valley Railroad. Most of the traffic along the line consists of intermodal and general merchandise trains going to yards such as Oak Island Yard in Newark, New Jersey, and Croxton Yard in Jersey City. The first locomotive purchased by the LVRR was the "Delaware", a wood-burning 4-4-0 built by Richard Norris & Sons of Philadelphia in 1855. This route became important to Conrail as an alternate route to avoid Amtrak's former PRR/PC Northeast Corridor electrified route. The two roads had entered a shared trackage agreement in this area in 1965 to reduce costs, as both had parallel routes from Wilkes-Barre virtually all the way to metropolitan New York, often on adjoining grades through Pennsylvania. The 46-mile-long (74km) LVRR connected at Mauch Chunk with the Beaver Meadow Railroad. (152 cu. (3 cu. Free shipping for many products! ft.), Susquehanna Coal Company / Leases, 1883-1939. Following Federal legislation which stopped the operation of such service, the lake line was sold to private interests in 1920. Photos not available for this variation. In 1882, the LVRR began an extensive expansion into New York from Waverly to Buffalo. The LVRR, which had built coal docks in Perth Amboy when it built the Easton and Amboy in the 1870s, desired a terminal on the Hudson River close to New York City. Then in 1887 the Lehigh Valley Railroad obtained a lease on the Southern Central Railroad (the LVRR previously had trackage rights on the railroad starting in 1870), which had a route from Waverly northward into the Finger Lakes region. (.3 cu. Hurricane Agnes in 1972 damaged the rundown Northeast railway network, which put the solvency of other railroads including the LVRR in danger; the somewhat more solvent Erie Lackawanna Railway (EL) was also damaged by Hurricane Agnes. Although in 1870 the LVRR had invested in the 2-mile (3.2km) Buffalo Creek Railroad, which connected the Erie to the lakefront, and had constructed the Lehigh Docks on Buffalo Creek, it depended on the Erie Railroad for the connection from Waverly to Buffalo, New York.[9]. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Rules and Regulations, 1858-1925. The existing tracks from Manville to Newark became a new rail line and Norfolk Southern along with CSX own it under a joint venture. Ad vertisement from shop plaindealing. Some of the lines and branches covered in the series'twenty-four boxes include: For maps of the routes and land holdings of the Lehigh and New England Railroad, the series The majority of passenger equipment is believed to have been scrapped some time after February 1961. The 1890s were a period of turmoil for the LVRR. By 1869, the LVRR owned a continuous track through Pennsylvania from Easton to Waverly. ft.), Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad / Contract Books, 1864-1891. That project failed, but the lands were later used for the LVRR's own terminal in 1889. Other RBMN Train Rides . ft.), Northern Central Railroad / Committee Minute Book, 1875-1914. [42], Following the Great Depression, the railroad had a few periods of prosperity, but was clearly in a slow decline. The 23 miles between Mauch Chunk and White Haven through the Lehigh Gorge, now the D&L Trail, was opened in 1864. The LVRR's Newark and Roselle Railway in 1891 brought the line from Roselle into Newark, where passengers connected to the Pennsylvania Railroad. Records vary as to scope and nature, including pipe and wire, trackage and crossing rights, real estate, physical facilities, financial obligations, operations with affiliated companies, governmental authorizations, purchases, and so forth. (1.5 cu. This was the second step toward establishment of a direct route from Waverly to Buffalo, the first being the acquisition of the Geneva, Ithaca & Athens Railroad. These operators include: The Lehigh Line was the Lehigh Valley Railroad's first rail line and served as the main line. 93-236, 87 Stat. Please note: There also exists an unprocessed series of PRR/Penn Central maps entitled: Architectural Drawings and Maps, ca 1818-1970 (1883-1965). Lehigh Valley Terminal DL&W Train Shed Metro Rail Stations: Light Rail Rapid Transit System Miami Street Freight House / Franklin Terminals Belt Line Railroad: Daniel Zornick,, Beltline Railroad Illustrated essay Map: 1894 City of Buffalo Atlas map (online Sept. 2020) Miscellany: Robert Holder, History of Early Railroads in Buffalo [14] A year later, Harry Packer died of illness, and Asa's 51-year-old nephew Elisha Packer Wilbur was elected president, a position he held for 13 years.[27]. ft.), Pennsylvania and Midland Railroad / Court Proceedings, 1895-1899. The lists were constructed by doing word searches of the narrative series descriptions for the designated words: maps, tracks and real estate. The Auburn Branch Sayre, PA to North Fair Haven NY, PA | CR, LV, NY&OM Batavia to Leroy, NY NY | LV Buffalo to Victor, NY NY | LV The Cayuga Lake Railroad Auburn to Lake Ridge, NY NY | CLRR, CR, LV The Cortland Branch East Ithaca to Camden, NY NY | LV Ithaca to . Bridging Newark Bay proved difficult. The line was later extended out to the northwest past Jim Thorpe to the Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, area and later it reached the Buffalo, New York, area and past Easton all the way to Perth Amboy, New Jersey, and then switched direction to the northeast to Jersey City, New Jersey, later cut back to Newark, New Jersey. The LVRR decided to expand more to the Northeastern New Jersey in order to reach its freight yards without using the CNJ main line. ft.), PRR / President / Presidential Correspondence of A.J. (5.6 cu. Size of this PNG preview of this SVG file: Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents. (3 cu. Map of the Abandoned Rails of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. Construction commenced in 1872 as soon the Easton and Amboy was formed; coal docks at Perth Amboy were soon constructed, and most of the line from Easton to Perth Amboy was graded and rails laid. Originally incorporated as the Delaware, Lehigh, Schuylkill and Susquehanna Railroad Company. [30] As a result of its leases and acquisitions, the Lehigh Valley gained a near-monopoly on traffic in the Finger Lakes region. (.1 cu. (.01 cu. ft.), PRR / VP of Special Services / Merger Studies, 1950-1970. In pursuit of that strategy, the 1868 purchases of the Hazleton Railroad and the Lehigh Luzerne Railroad brought 1,800 acres (7.3km2) of coal land to the LVRR, and additional lands were acquired along branches of the LVRR. The interstate highways helped the trucking industry offer door-to-door service, and the St. Lawrence Seaway allowed grain shipments to bypass the railways and go directly to overseas markets. In 1941, the Pennsylvania placed its shares in a voting trust after reaching an agreement with the New York Central regarding the PRR's purchase of the Wabash. By the 1960s, railroads in the East were struggling to survive. (59 cu. (.03 cu. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Guide for the PRR with Extensive Map Including the Entire Route, 1855. (.2 cu. By 1859 it had 600 coal cars and 19 engines. Construction of a rail line to the New York state line started immediately and, in 1867, the line was complete from Wilkes-Barre to Waverly, New York, where coal was transferred to the broad gauge Erie Railroad and shipped to western markets through Buffalo, New York. ft.), PRR / President / Presidential Correspondence of W.W. Atterbury, 1925-1935. It opened a hotel in Glen Summit, Pennsylvania, called the Glen Summit Hotel to serve lunch to passengers traveling on the line. Wilson, Chief Engineer, 1881-1884. Three months later the line branched out to the northwest past Allentown to Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, on September 12, 1855. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Reports on Coal and Coal Mines, 1861-1864. (.1 cu. (.1 cu. ft.), PRR / VP of Special Services / Merger Testimony and Exhibits, 1962-1967. In 1883, Hartshorne retired to allow Harry E. Packer, Asa's 32-year-old youngest son, to assume the Presidency. ft.), Susquehanna and Clearfield Railroad / Annual Report to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. ft.), PRR / VP of Eastern Region / Press Copy Plan Book, 1899-1907. (3.5 cu. (.4 cu. [10] The LVRR recognized that its own continued prosperity depended on obtaining what coal lands remained. File usage on Commons. The line connects with Conrail Shared Assets Operations's Lehigh Line (the new rail line) and CSX Transportation's Trenton Subdivision at Port Reading Junction in Manville, New Jersey, and connects with the Reading Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad's Reading Division at Packerton, Pennsylvania, and Reading Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad's Lehigh Division at Lehighton, Pennsylvania (originally M&H Junction near Old Penn Haven, Pennsylvania). The Lehigh Line still exists and still serves as a major freight railroad line that operates in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Although the decade began with the completion of its terminals at Buffalo and Jersey City, and the establishment of a trunk line across New York, the company soon became entangled in costly business dealings which ultimately led to the Packer family's loss of control. [3], Little occurred between 1847 and 1851, save some limited grading near Allentown, Pennsylvania. (.1 cu. First, it purchased a large parcel of land in Buffalo, the Tifft farm, for use as terminal facilities, and obtained a New York charter for the Lehigh Valley Railway (a similar name to the LVRR, but with "railway" instead). The Depression had been difficult for all the railroads, and Congress recognized that bankruptcy laws needed revision. ft.), Riverfront Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. On April 1, 1976, the LVRR, including its main line, was merged into the U.S. government's Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail) ending 130 years of existence and 121 years of operation of the LVRR. (5 cu. ft.), West Lane Garage Company / Minute Book, 1934-1943. On April 1, 1976, major portions of the assets of the bankrupt Lehigh Valley Railroad were acquired by Conrail. Photograph by Donald W. Furler, Furler-12-021-01 . Working in conjunction with the Allentown & Auburn Railroad and the Lehigh Valley Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society the three groups plan to restore the switcher back to operating condition wearing its original L&NE colors and number. In 1892, the Lehigh Valley Railroad completed its main line and established a western terminus in Buffa-lo, New York.At the same time, Niagara Falls had begun to flourish as a tourist attraction. Budd Rail Diesel Car service would continue on a branch line (Lehighton-Hazleton) for an additional four days. ft.), Manor Real Estate and Trust Company / Property Ledger, 1886-1916. (.15 cu. It was followed by the "Catasauqua" 4-4-0 and "Lehigh" 4-6-0, which were also Norris & Sons engines. (.0 cu. Young, 1929-1943. In 1901, Morgan arranged to have the Packer Estate's holdings purchased jointly by the Erie, the Pennsylvania, the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, the DL&W and the CNJ, all companies in which Morgan had interests. [1], Throughout the 1920s the railroad remained in the hands of the Morgan / Drexel banking firm, but in 1928 an attempt was made to wrest control from it. ft.), Leechburg Company / Minute Books, 1937-1954. (.1 cu. Additional passenger trains ran from Philadelphia to Scranton and westward. (.1 cu. . ft.), Ridgeway and Clearfield Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. (.2 cu. [15] Asa Packer purchased additional land at the canal basin in support of the New Jersey West Line Railroad, which he hoped to use as the LVRR's terminal. (.3 cu. (1.25 cu. The LVRR operated several named trains in the post-World War II era. Two final blows fell in the 1950s: the passage of the Federal-Aid Highway Act in 1956, better known as the Interstate Highway Act, and the opening of the Saint Lawrence Seaway in 1959. Lehigh Valley Railroad Maps The maps on the following pages, based on the LVRR right-of-way as of September 24, 1936, were created by the ARHS: New Jersey Mainline - from Jutland to Jersey City M&H Area and Mainline - Mahanoy and Hazleton Division, as well as the mainline from Lizard Creek Jct. The 16 mile mountain cut-of, a rail segment of the line that extended from Fairview, Pennsylvania, to the outskirts of Pittston, Pennsylvania, was completed in November 1888. (6.5 cu. This primarily consisted of the main line and related branches from Van Etten Junction, northwest of Sayre, Pennsylvania) to Oak Island Yard, the Ithaca branch from Van Etten Junction to Ithaca, New York, connecting to the Cayuga Lake line and on to the Milliken power station in Lake Ridge, New York (closed on August 29, 2019) and the Cargill salt mine just south of Auburn; and small segments in Geneva, New York (from Geneva to the Seneca Army Depot in Kendaia); Batavia, New York; Auburn, New York, and Cortland, New York. (.1 cu. ft.), Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad / Agreements, Leases and Mortgage, 1847-1886. The Chandler Acts of 1938-9 provided a new form of relief for railroads, allowing them to restructure their debt while continuing to operate. The "T" intersection is also visible on the map where the trains would turn into the depot at the village of Hemlock. From 1855 to 1879 the Lehigh Valley Railroad had grown from its original road between Mauch Chunk and Easton, to include 658 miles of track as far away as Buffalo and New York City. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Letter Press Books of George W.I. Some lines were subsequently abandoned and even dismantled long before the expiration date came up. (1 cu. Please note: Not all of the Valuable Papers were deposited at the archives, so we may not hold all of the items referenced in the index. ft.), A publication by Thomas Townsend Taber (Thomas T. Taber III) entitled, PRR / Comptroller / Confidential Annual Reports of Affiliated Corporations, 1892-1959. The Lehigh Valley Railroad remained in operation during the 1970 bankruptcy, as was the common practice of the time. (.03 cu. (.1 cu. In 1896 the very early film Black Diamond Express was produced by Thomas A. Edison's company Kinetoscope. (.1 cu. 6 Replies 6377 Views by lvrr325 Fri Aug 28, 2015 3:20 pm: Since 1896 the LVRR had run an important and prestigious express train named the "Black Diamond" which carried passengers to the Finger Lakes and Buffalo. (.4 cu. Abandoned Lines By mileage, no state comes close to the abandonments suffered in Pennsylvania, which now amounts to roughly 6,500 miles. ft.), PRR / Secretary / General Correspondence Files, ca 1887-1972. (1 cu. Lehigh Valley Railroad Tracings and blueprints for buildings, bridges, and track routes of the Land and Tax Department for the Wyoming, Jersey City and Buffalo Divisions of the Lehigh Valley Railroad are included in Series {#274m.568}, Track and Structures Drawings, 1870-1976 . (.1 cu. Conrail integrated former CNJ main line leased trackage into the line and kept the line in continuous operation (since 1855); however, it downsized the line in the northwest from the Buffalo area of New York State: first to Sayre Yard in Sayre, Pennsylvania; then to Mehoopany, Pennsylvania; and finally to Penn Haven Junction in Lehigh Township, Carbon County, Pennsylvania. From the beginning, the LVRR's New York City passengers had used the Pennsylvania Railroad's terminal and ferry at Jersey City, but in 1913 the PRR terminated that agreement, so the LVRR contracted with the CNJ for use of its terminal and ferry, which was expanded to handle the increased number of passengers. The production of the entire Middle Coal Field came to the LVRR over feeders to the Beaver Meadow: the Quakake Railroad, the Catawissa, Williamsport and Erie Railroad, the Hazleton Railroad, the Lehigh Luzerne Railroad and other smaller lines.