Excelent site!! Am looking for LV maps of Jersey City ( 1940′s – 1960′S ) for next book. Trying to include the rte.440 branch. I have only 1 photo. Thanks, Charles Caldes
It doesn’t appear in a 1978 Buffalo Division track chart (RDBR 48-0603 makes it west to MP 443.4, just west of William Street) or on a Buffalo map in the front of a 1991 Albany track chart (the latter shows a bunch of 1982 abandonments). Most likely any right-of-way not bought by the Thruway Authority remained with the Lehigh Valley/Penn Central trustees when Conrail was formed.
John,
Very interesting site! I am trying to determine LV RR ownership of the main east-west former LVRR line that ran east-west just north of Perry Street, and crossed Louisiana and terminated near Washington Street/Scott Street. It was adjacent to and south of the former Hamburg Canal.
You have the best map I have been able to locate for this line.
I work in Conrail’s Real Estate Department, and have been tring to find any valuation maps for this line, and whether Conrail ever had any interest in it, but have had no luck so far.
We do have maps of the Tifft Street area to the south, but that’s as close as I can get.
I never worked for the LV, but have known people who did.
If you have any knowledge of what happened to this line, and would be willing to share, it would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Helen Blair
Excelent site!! Am looking for LV maps of Jersey City ( 1940′s – 1960′S ) for next book. Trying to include the rte.440 branch. I have only 1 photo. Thanks, Charles Caldes
It doesn’t appear in a 1978 Buffalo Division track chart (RDBR 48-0603 makes it west to MP 443.4, just west of William Street) or on a Buffalo map in the front of a 1991 Albany track chart (the latter shows a bunch of 1982 abandonments). Most likely any right-of-way not bought by the Thruway Authority remained with the Lehigh Valley/Penn Central trustees when Conrail was formed.
John,
Very interesting site! I am trying to determine LV RR ownership of the main east-west former LVRR line that ran east-west just north of Perry Street, and crossed Louisiana and terminated near Washington Street/Scott Street. It was adjacent to and south of the former Hamburg Canal.
You have the best map I have been able to locate for this line.
I work in Conrail’s Real Estate Department, and have been tring to find any valuation maps for this line, and whether Conrail ever had any interest in it, but have had no luck so far.
We do have maps of the Tifft Street area to the south, but that’s as close as I can get.
I never worked for the LV, but have known people who did.
If you have any knowledge of what happened to this line, and would be willing to share, it would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Helen Blair