With little more than half as many miles of track as the Erie, the Lehigh Valley nonetheless upstaged the mighty New York Central when it opened an impressive Greek revival train station in Buffalo in 1916. The Central’s own stations … Continue reading
Lehigh Valley carried coal from Pennsylvania to Buffalo on the west and Jersey City on the east. This timetable shows that it operated 30 passenger trains in 1885. These are numbered 0 to 28 westbound and 1 to 29 eastbound. … Continue reading
Lehigh Valley competed with Lackawanna and Erie railroads for New York-Buffalo traffic across southern New York and northeast Pennsylvania. In 1958, the railroad offered three daily trains to Buffalo and three more trains that went only part of the distance … Continue reading
The cover of this menu, which was provided by the same Streamliner Memories reader who supplied the 1965 New York Central timetable, features one of the railroad’s five streamlined steam locomotives. A small black diamond on the lower right discreetly … Continue reading
Out of the 120,000 or so steam locomotives built and used in the United States, only about 220 were streamlined–or, as the Chicago & North Western called it, steamlined–for passenger service. Railroads went to the trouble to streamline steam locomotives … Continue reading
