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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 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 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 ...
Lehigh-Pennsylvania Express 1916 — 1932 Phillipsburg, NJ — Easton, PA — Mount Carmel, PA — Sunbury, PA — Lock Haven, PA — Tyrone, PA — Altoona, PA via LV renamed Pittsburgh-Wilkes-Barre Express
The 469 is owned by the Dining Car Society, a nonprofit historical group based in Port Jervis, New York, and is planned to be [when?] restored as DL&W 469. [11] The 470 is owned by the owners of Genesee Valley Transportation and is stored on their Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad in Scranton, Pennsylvania awaiting a full restoration.
The train's service began in 1937; a predecessor Lehigh Valley Railroad train, the Toronto, traveled the same route. The Maple Leaf and the John Wilkes were the last named passenger trains operated by the Lehigh Valley Railroad. [3] The route was double tracked from New York City to Niagara Falls and the Finger Lakes Region.
NRHS: History of the Lehigh Valley Transit Company, Railway Operations (1966), and Liberty Bell Route's Heavy Interurban Cars, History and Roster. (1969). National Railway Historical Society, Lehigh Valley Chapter, Allentown, PA. Rohrbeck, Benson; Lehigh Valley Transit Company 1934-1953, 144pp. Rohrbeck Traction Publications, West Chester, PA.
In 1935, the Boston and Maine Railroad ordered ten 84-seat and twenty-one 98-seat coaches, followed in 1937 by twenty 92-seat coaches. [1] The Bangor and Aroostook Railroad acquired nine cars of the American Flyer design in 1937 and 1938—four combination mail and baggage cars, three combination food service and coach cars, and two 84-seat coaches.