The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, also known as the DL&W or Lackawanna Railroad, was a U.S. Class 1 railroad that connected Buffalo, New York, and Hoboken, New Jersey, and by ferry with N
The railroad's offices in Manhattan in 1893
The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad yards in Scranton, Pennsylvania, a hub of the Pennsylvania coal mining industry, c. 1895
The Paulinskill Viaduct on the Lackawanna Cut-Off in Hainesburg, New Jersey, was the largest concrete bridge in the world when it was completed in 1910
The Tunkhannock Viaduct in Nicholson, Pennsylvania, in October 1988. A Delaware & Hudson Railway train on the bridge is dwarfed by the structure, which stands 240 feet (73 m) above the creek for which it is named
Erie Lackawanna Railway
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The Erie Lackawanna Railway, 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
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad
…trucks following the expansion of the Interstate Highway System in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1960, the DL&W merged with rival Erie Railroad to form the Erie Lackawanna Railroad that would be taken over by Conrail in 1976. Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad was first incorporated as Leggett's Gap Railroad on April 7…
An Erie Lackawanna train passes State Line Tower on the Indiana-Illinois border en route to Chicago in January, 1972
Erie Lackawanna MU cars at Gladstone station on April 25, 1970
Trains at the Erie Lackawanna rail yard in Waldwick, New Jersey on April 25, 1970
The Phoebe Snow at Hoboken Terminal in September 1965