Description: RailroadTreasures offers the following item: History of Lehigh and New England Railroad Company L&NE History of Lehigh and New England Railroad Company Copyright 1972 Lehigh Valley Chapter, NRHS. History of the South Mountain & Boston RR Co, Pennsylvania Poughkeepsie & Boston RR co, Slate Valley RR, L&NE, Lehigh Coal and Navigation Co, Panther Creek RR, Crane RR Co, L&NE improves operations, photos, more. 144 pages. TWO FOLD OUT MAPS. PREFACE Lehigh and New England Railroad Company, recognized for many years as one of the most efficient and prosperous common carrier systems in the United States, surprisingly had the distinction of being an organization of which most railway historians and buffs possessed meager knowledge, gathered only a minute parcel of data, and photographed rather sparingly. Four principal reasons account for this situation: first, the railroad company in 1904 passed into the control of an organization primarily interested in mining and marketing anthracite coal; second, the system's main route served as a bridge line between larger railroads and failed to directly enter industrial plants of any major city in the three states in which it operated; third, its passenger trains can best be described as being local in character as compared with the ornate plush and varnish which identified blue ribbon titled consists of other systems its size; and fourth, it established its center of operations in a small borough served by a newspaper which possessed a limited circulation. News journals devoted exclusively to the railroad industry adequately discussed the railroad's progress but the general public had restricted access to these periodicals. A concerted effort of research reveals that Lehigh and New England Railroad Company's history presents many complicated and interesting facts. For example, few people who resided along the main line in the Lehigh River valley of eastern Pennsylvania knew that the portion of track located near the southern base of Blue Mountains between Lehigh and Delaware rivers had been planned in the 19th Century to be a part of short main line between mid-west America and the New England states. In the mid 1890's Lehigh and New England Railroad Company succeeded Pennsylvania, Poughkeepsie and Boston Railroad Company, survivor of the national project via a line of succession, and then in time added trackage to Allentown, Bethlehem, Tamaqua, Nesquehoning, Summit Hill, Catasauqua, Martins Creek, Nazareth, Palmerton, Bangor, East Bangor, and Saylors Lake in Pennsylvania and to Glenwood in New Jersey. These branches originally served Pennsylvania's slate belt and New Jersey and New York's farming communities, added the cement region as it developed, and finally tapped the rich hard coal belt. While these products flourished the railroad prospered, but as each main commodity faltered either for technological or economic reasons the railroad's fortunes suffered accordingly. The text of this booklet has been arranged chronologically in chapter form with the history of merged companies blended into it. From time to time there may be retrocession and duplication of data but great care has been exercised to avoid a preponderance of it. A lengthy scholarly study could most assuredly be written about Lehigh and New England Railroad Company. This version, however, has utilized only important events and has presented them in a publication characteristic of a historical society founded predominantly for and by laymen. Actually, the composition of this history has been difficult and time consuming. It required aid and guidance from many railway men, historians, newspapers, periodicals, as well as sundry incomplete records of the railroad company. A limited amount of suitable photographs, especially those depicting the early years of operations, denies a complete pictorial coverage; however, the editor presents a representative and appropriate array of available photographs in a section following each chapter's text. Lehigh Valley Chapter, National Railway Historical Society, Incorporated, herein presents its unbiased historical rendition about a great common carrier railway - Lehigh and New England Railroad Company. Its tracks have been ripped up, its motive power and rolling stock have been sold, and its abandoned right of way has been steadily reclaimed by nature, but natives of the Lehigh River valley will long remember the seemingly endless trains of hopper cars loaded with "black diamonds" and the dusty gray cars packed with cement which rumbled to markets over shiny ribbons of steel when the railroad ranked as one of the best. All pictures are of the actual item. There may be reflection from the lights in some photos. We try to take photos of any damage. If this is a railroad item, this material is obsolete and no longer in use by the railroad. Please email with questions. Publishers of Train Shed Cyclopedias and Stephans Railroad Directories. Large inventory of railroad books and magazines. Thank you for buying from us. Shipping charges US Shipments: When you add multiple items to your cart, the reduced shipping charges will automatically be calculated. . 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