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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.
An 1860 illustration of the Lehigh Valley Railroad's unusual double-decker bridge, which crosses the Delaware River in Easton An 1884 map of the Pennsylvania, Reading and Lehigh Valley Railroads Lehigh Valley Railroad's Barge 79, now a museum in South Brooklyn Map of Lehigh Valley Railroad's terminal at Jersey City Map of Lehigh Valley Railroad's Roselle and South Plainfield Railway A share of ...
Schuylkill and Lehigh Valley Railroad: LV: 1886 1949 Lehigh Valley Railroad: Schuylkill River East Side Railroad: B&O: 1883 Schuylkill and Susquehanna Railroad: RDG: 1859 1872 Philadelphia and Reading Railroad: Schuylkill Valley Navigation Company: RDG: 1828 1829 Schuylkill Valley Navigation and Railroad Company: Schuylkill Valley Navigation ...
The property of the Montrose Railroad devoted to common-carrier purposes has been operated from the date of organization to date of valuation by the Lehigh Valley, through ownership of the entire outstanding capital stock. The latter company pays no rental to the Montrose Railroad, and makes no accounting to it of the results from operations.
The Lehigh Valley was Incorporated by special act of Pennsylvania, approved April 21, 1846, under the name of The Delaware, Lehigh, Schuylkill and Susquehanna Railroad Company. Its name was changed to Lehigh Valley Railroad Company by special act of the above named State, approved January 7, 1853.
The Quakake Railroad went into foreclosure on September 30, 1862, and was reorganized as the Lehigh and Mahanoy Railroad on October 11. In 1865, a branch was built from Park Place to Mahanoy City. [citation needed] On June 30, 1866 the company was merged into the Lehigh Valley Railroad. [2] Under the Lehigh & Mahanoy, the line between Raven Run ...
In April/May 1881, the three companies merged to form a new Lehigh and Hudson River Railroad and on April 1, 1882, the Warwick Valley Railroad joined, forming the Lehigh and Hudson River Railway (L&HR). Grinnell Burt would serve as the president of the newly consolidated line, as he had with the WVRR, up until his death in 1901 and would be ...
The potential of the EC&N to provider feeder traffic for its new line intrigued the Lehigh Valley, which purchased the company on February 20, 1896. A formal merger followed in 1905. Under the Lehigh Valley, the EC&N's Elmira–Camden line was known as the Elmira and Cortland Branch and managed as part of the railroad's Auburn Division. [10] [11]