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The Lehigh Line Connection connects Amtrak's Northeast Corridor (NEC) with the Conrail Lehigh Line 2 miles (3.2 km) south of downtown Newark, New Jersey. It leaves the NEC at Hunter Interlocking, and the line is sometimes called the Hunter Connection .
The owned main-track mileage extends from a junction with the Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company in the city of Allentown through Allentown and South Allentown, Pa., to a point where it connects again with the same railroad in the township of Hanover, 3.629 miles, including branches.
When founded in 1994, the railway incorporated tracks from a variety of defunct railroads, including the Pocono Northeast Railroad, Lehigh Valley Railroad, and Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad. Major commodities hauled by the Luzerne and Susquehanna include chemicals, packaging, building products, and food & beverage.
The line diverges from the Lehigh Line (formerly the main line of the Lehigh Valley Railroad) at CP Bound Brook in Bound Brook, New Jersey. From there it proceeds east to Port Reading, New Jersey, on the Arthur Kill. The line connects with the Chemical Coast Secondary in Port Reading, just short of the yard there. [1]
The Montrose Branch of the Lehigh Valley Railroad was a branch line that operated in Wyoming and Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania from 1872 to 1976. Originally opened as a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge under the control of the Lehigh Valley, it was converted to standard gauge in 1903, several years after the Lehigh Valley acquired complete control of the railroad.
At one time the connections were with New York Central Railroad, Pennsylvania Railroad, Lehigh Valley Railroad, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Norfolk and Western Railway, Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, and New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad.
Map of the Roselle and South Plainfield Railway. The Roselle and South Plainfield Railway was a railroad built by the Lehigh Valley Railroad (LVRR) in 1888 to connect the LVRR's Easton and Amboy Railroad with the Central Railroad of New Jersey (CNJ), and provided access over the CNJ to the Hudson River waterfront in Jersey City.
The Lehigh Valley (/ ˈ l iː h aɪ /) is a geographic and metropolitan region formed by the Lehigh River in Lehigh and Northampton counties in eastern Pennsylvania.It is a component valley of the Great Appalachian Valley bounded to its north by Blue Mountain, to its south by South Mountain, to its west by Lebanon Valley, and to its east by the Delaware River and Warren County, New Jersey. [1]