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Interior of a parlor car, c. 1899. The Black Diamond, also known as the Black Diamond Express, was the flagship passenger train of the Lehigh Valley Railroad (LV). [1] It ran from New York to Buffalo [1] from 1896 until May 11, 1959, when the Lehigh Valley's passenger service was reduced to four mainline trains.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad remained in operation during their 1970 bankruptcy proceedings, as was the common practice of the time. In 1972, the Lehigh Valley Railroad assumed the remaining Pennsylvania trackage of the Central Railroad of New Jersey, a competing anthracite railroad which had also entered bankruptcy. The two railroads had entered ...
The John Wilkes was a passenger train of the Lehigh Valley Railroad (LV). It ran from New York City to the Coxton section [1] of Pittston, Pennsylvania from 1939 until the end of Lehigh Valley Passenger Service in 1961. This train was the last Lehigh Valley Passenger Service operated, along with the Maple Leaf.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad opened its original line between Allentown and Easton, Pennsylvania in 1855; the first passenger train ran between the two cities on June 11. [1] In 1890, the Lehigh Valley Railroad relocated its station to downtown Allentown, just off its main line.
Allentown was once a passenger rail hub from 1890 to 1967 and again in 1978 and 1979 for the Lehigh Valley Railroad and the Central Railroad of New Jersey but also for the Lehigh and New England Railroad, the Reading Railroad, the Lehigh Valley Transit Company, and then Conrail and SEPTA for its Bethlehem Line service, which did not involve the ...
The Binghamton Press and Sun-Bulletin had same day, May 8, 1911, coverage saying, “A passenger train on the Elmira & Cortland division of the Lehigh Valley railroad (that was due at noon ...
The Lehigh Valley Transit Company (LVT) was a regional transport company that was headquartered in Allentown, Pennsylvania.The company began operations in 1901, as an urban trolley and interurban rail transport company.
The Lehigh Valley moved its operations to a smaller station outside the downtown area at Dingens and South Ogden Streets, which served until the end of all Lehigh Valley passenger service in 1961. The terminal also hosted the Erie Railroad's passenger trains from 1935 until 1951, when that railroad ceased serving Buffalo. [3]