The Erie Lackawanna Railway (reporting mark EL), known as the Erie Lackawanna Railroad until 1968, was formed from the 1960 merger of the Erie Railroad and the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad.The official motto of the line was "The Friendly Service Route". Like many railroads in the northeast already financially vulnerable from the expanding U.S. Interstate Highway System, the line was ...

The PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD was one of the 3 major components of the CONRAIL network, which included the ERIE-LACKAWANNA RAILROAD and the NEW YORK CENTRAL RAILROAD. Pennsylvania Railroad operations in Cleveland dated back to 1836, when the Cleveland & Pittsburgh was chartered in response to public interest in building a …

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 began as the New York & Erie Railroad Co., which was chartered in 1832-33 and commenced operations in 1841.

Cleveland railroading began in the mid-1800's, when the predecessors of the New York Central and Nickel Plate Road (New York, Chicago, & St. Louis) built two major lines along Lake Erie that handled major traffic per day, and had major yards on them at this point.

Dec 1, 2015 · The 59th Street Yard was built by the Pennsy/Panhandle/Chicago and Great Eastern. It extended from 63rd Street north to Garfield Boulevard with 59th Street being the only street that crossed the yard. The B&OCT ran along the west side of the yard because they both shared the Western Avenue Corridor.

Archives of the company that built the Terminal Tower complex, the Union passenger station, and the entire infrastructure of tracks, bridges, signals, electrical catenary structures and yard facility buildings.

Aug 16, 2016 · The Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago, the Cleveland & Pittsburgh, and the Erie & Pittsburgh would form the basis of the Pennsylvania Railroad system in Beaver County.

Aug 5, 2011 · The P&LE and B&O and various smaller railroads set up a major rail center just south of New Castle in Taylor Township that became known as New Castle Junction.

From the 1860s to the 1960s, railroads served as the principal transporter of goods and people to and from the Forest City. Not long after the steam locomotive made its 1829 American debut, Clevelanders realized the potential for this novel transportation form.

The Euclid Avenue railway station had its roots in 1856 when the Cleveland & Pittsburgh Railroad Company received a donation of land at the intersection of Euclid and Willson Avenue (East 55th Street from 1906) from Jared V. Willson.