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Manuscript Group 300
ERIE LACKAWANNA RAILWAY COMPANY DEPOSIT
1832-1968
70 cubic feet


The Erie Lackawanna Railway (EL) that operated between Pennsylvania and New York resulted from the 1960 merger of the Erie Railroad Company and the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western (DL&W) Railroad Company. The Erie Railroad underwent four changes in corporate title prior to this merger: New York and Erie Railroad Company, 1832-1861; Erie Railway Company, 1861-1878; New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad Company, 1878-1895; and Erie Railroad Company, 1895-1960.

The records chiefly consist of minute books, accounts and reports of the Erie Lackawanna Railway and its predecessor companies. Included are 140 volumes of Erie Railroad Company real estate records, 1847-1914; minutes of the Pension Board, 1941-1961, the Nominating Committee of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, and annual reports of the New York and Greenwood Lake Railroad Company, 1879-1895 and the Sharon Railway Company, 1891-1926. The land records include transcribed deeds, abstracts of titles, land drafts, agreements, rights-of-way, and ordinances belonging to the Real Estate Department of the Erie Railroad Company and relating to real estate holdings in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Ohio involving the Allegheny, Buffalo, Bradford, New York, Rochester, and Susquehanna Divisions of the Niagara Falls Branch. Also present is a copy of George H. Minor's "The Erie System, Its Organization and Corporate," 1911.


A. ERIE LACKAWANNA RAILWAY

B. ERIE RAILROAD COMPANY

Comptroller

Real Estate and Taxation Department

Secretary

C. ERIE RAILWAY CO. SUBSIDIARIES

D. ERIE RAILWAY COMPANY



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