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As we celebrate the bicentennial of the Erie Canal, it’s important to recognize its crucial role in the Underground Railroad ...
Franklin County historian Mike Marotte dives into the story of George Weistling, who played a key role in Mont Alto history.
What little passenger service which remained on the line was moved east to an unremarkable railroad siding. The new Erie-Lackawanna Railroad continued intercity passenger service until 1969 ...
The ERIE-LACKAWANNA RAILROAD was one of the three major Cleveland components of the CONRAIL network which included the NEW YORK CENTRAL RAILROAD and the PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. The Erie-Lackawanna ...
The NEW YORK CENTRAL RAILROAD was one of 3 major components of the CONRAIL network, which also included the ERIE-LACKAWANNA RAILROAD and the PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. The New York Central operations in ...
With PennDOT as the lead agency and Amtrak as the proposed operator, the owners of the route — Pennsylvania Northeast Regional Rail Authority (PNRRA), New Jersey Department of Transportation ...
The Interstate Commerce Commission last week put a newly merged railroad on the tracks and gave it a shove. It approved merger of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western and the Erie into the Erie ...
CSX hopes to make a Lackawanna rail yard a magnet for shipments that arrive at two East Coast ports and are bound for Canada. The railroad ... Authority of New York and New Jersey, the new service ...
Erie Railroad history starts ... allowed abandonment of Erie’s Jersey City passenger terminal in favor of the Lackawanna’s at Hoboken, thus reducing exorbitant New Jersey taxes; permitted joint use of ...
New Jersey and Philadelphia. Conrail, which had emerged from the bankruptcy of the Penn Central, Erie-Lackawanna, Central Railroad of New Jersey, Reading and other financially strapped railroads, ...