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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 ...
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 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 railroad abandoned its remaining passenger trains on February 4, 1961, after years of financial losses and declining patronage. [4] Allentown was one of several passenger-only stations that closed as a result. [5] The abandoned station was demolished in 1972 to permit the construction of an enlarged road bridge over Jordan Creek. [6]
Delaware Valley Express 1904 — 1932 Philadelphia, PA — Trenton, NJ — East Stroudsburg, PA; Delaware Valley Express 1962 — 1972 Philadelphia, PA Suburban Station — Trenton, NJ; Del-Mar-Va Express 1926 — 1958 New York, NY — Philadelphia, PA — Cape Charles, VA via boat ferry Norfolk, VA; The Detroit Arrow 1935 — 1949
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 ...
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 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]