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.
- Arlington Railroad Company Minute Books, 1887-1942. {#300m.33}
-
Arnot and Pine Creek Rail Road Company Minute Books, 1882-1936.
{#300m.34}
- Atlantic & Great Western Railroad Co. Annual
Report, 1872. {#300m.35}
- Atlantic & Great Western R.R. Co.
Record Book Agreements, Leases, etc. circa 1873. {#300m.36}
-
Atlantic
and Great Western Rail Road Co. in N.Y. Minute Books, 1859-1865. {#300m.37}
-
Atlantic and Great Western Rail Road Co. Consolidated Minute
Books, 1865-1867. {#300m.38}
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Atlantic
and Great Western Railway Co. of Ohio Minute Books, 1871-1891. {#300m.39}
-
Atlantic and Great Western Rail Road Co. of N.Y. Minute Books,
1871-1879. {#300m.40}
-
Atlantic and Great
Western Rail Road Company Minute Books, 1871-1877. {#300m.41}
-
Atlantic and Great Western Rail Road Co. Executive Committee
Minute Books, 1860-1880. {#300m.42}
- Atlantic & Great
Western Railway Official Scheme of Reorganization , 1872. {#300m.43}
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The Avoca Coal Co. Limited Minute Books, 1889-1911. {#300m.44}
-
Bergen and Dundee Railroad Company Minute Books, 1885-1942.
{#300m.45}
-
Bergen County Railroad Minute
Books, 1875-1942. {#300m.46}
-
Brockport
& Shawmut R.R. Co. No.1 Minute Books, 1886-1936. {#300m.47}
-
Buffalo Bradford & Pittsburgh R.R. Co. Executive Committee
Minute Books, 1864-1938. {#300m.48}
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Buffalo
Extension of Atlantic & Great Western Ry. Minute Books, 1864-1865. {#300m.49}
-
Butler Mine Company Limited Minute Books, 1885-1911. {#300m.50}
-
Canal Belt Railroad Minute Books, 1916-1932. {#300m.51}
-
Cattaraugus and Chautauque Railroad Minute Books, 1850-1863.
{#300m.52}
-
Chicago and Atlantic Railway
Co. Minute Books, 1873-1889. {#300m.53}
-
Caldwell
Railway Co. Minute Books, 1890-1949. {#300m.54}
- Chicago &
Atlantic Ry. Supplemental Terminal Mortgages, undated. {#300m.55}
- Chicago
& Atlantic Agreements, Terminal Trust Instruments, undated. {#300m.56}
- Chicago & Erie Railroad Certificate of Incorporation, Reorganization
Deeds, Mortgages, undated. {#300m.57}
-
Chicago
& Erie R.R. Co. Minute Books, 1890-1947. {#300m.58}
-
Clarence Coal Company Minute Books, 1902-1911 {#300m.59}
-
Cleveland & Mahoning Rail Road Corp. Minute Books, 1848-1872.
{#300m.60}
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Cleveland & Mahoning Valley
Ry. Co. Minute Books, 1910-1942. {#300m.61}
-
Cleveland
& Mahoning Valley Executive Commitee Minute Books, 1875-1937. {#300m.62}
-
Cleveland & Mahoning Valley Rwy. Co. Minute Books, 1872-1909.
{#300m.63}
-
Columbus & Erie Railroad
Company Minute Books, 1905-1941. {#300m.64}
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Conesus
Lake R.R. Co. Minute Books, 1882-1930. {#300m.65}
-
Corning
and Painted Post Street Railway Minute Books, 1894-1931. {#300m.66}
-
Delaware Valley and Kingston Rwy. Co. Minute Books, 1899-1943.
{#300m.67}
-
Docks Connecting Railway Co.
Minute Books, 1886-1942. {#300m.68}
-
Dunmore
Iron & Steel Company Minute Books, 1885-1930. {#300m.69}
-
Edgewater & Fort Lee Railroad Co. Minute Books, 1901-1907.
{#300m.70}
-
Elmira, Corning and Waverly
Railway Minute Books, 1905-1944. {#300m.71}
-
Erie
& Black Rock Railroad Company Minute Books, 1882-1929. {#300m.72}
-
Erie & Jersey Railroad Company Minute Books, 1905-1906.
{#300m.73}
-
Erie & New York City R.R.
Co. Minute Books, 1850-1863. {#300m.74}
-
Erie
& Wyoming Valley Railroad Company Minute Books, 1882-1906. {#300m.75}
-
Erie Terminals Railroad Company Minute Books, 1907-1942. {#300m.76}
- Erie Terminals Railroad Company - Its Leased and Merged Companies,
undated. {#300m.77}
-
Eriton Railway Company
Minute Books, 1906-1933. {#300m.78}
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The
Florence Coal Company Minute Books, 1883-1903. {#300m.79}
-
Franklin & Warren Rail Road Company Minute Books, 1851-1865.
{#300m.80}
- Genesee River Railroad Company - Certificate
of Incorporation, undated. {#300m.81}
-
Genessee
River Railroad Co. Minute Books, 1905-1915. {#300m.82}
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Goshen
& Deckertown Minute Books, 1885-1954. {#300m.83}
-
Goshen
& Deckertown Railway Co. Minute Books, 1867-1894. {#300m.84}
-
Grassy Island Rail Road Minute Books, 1888-1936. {#300m.85}
-
Hackensack & New York Railroad Company Minute Books, 1878-1885.
{#300m.86}
- Halftone Plates of Rayen Terminals Company Lease
of 1926. {#300m.87}
-
Hammond Industrial District,
Inc. Minute Books, 1928-1932. {#300m.88}
-
Interstate
Elevator Company Minute Books, 1897-1912. {#300m.89}
-
Jefferson
Railroad Company Minute Books, 1864-1942. {#300m.90}
-
Keystone
Coal & Transportation Co. & Luzerne Coal Transportation Co. Minute Books,
1863-1873. {#300m.91}
- Lackawanna & Susquehanna Coal &
Iron Co. Minute Books, 1872. {#300m.92}
- Lackawanna & Susquehanna
Coal & Iron Co. Mortgage, 1872. {#300m.93}
-
Lake
Keuka Navigation Company Minute Books, 1887-1927. {#300m.94}
- The
Laws of the States of New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey Specially Relating
to the New York and Erie Railroad Company and Organization of the Erie Railroad
Company, and also the General Laws of Said States Relative to Railroad. Also the
Charter, contracts, Agreements and Leases of the Long Dock Company and New Jersey
Roads, etc. 1863. {#300m.95}
-
Liberty & Vienna
Railroad Co. Minute Books, 1869-1872. {#300m.96}
-
Lockport
& Buffalo Railway Co. Minute Books, 1871-1890. {#300m.97}
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The Long Dock Company Minute Books, 1856-1942. {#300m.98}
-
Macopin Railroad Company Minute Books, 1886-1927. {#300m.99}
-
Mahoning & Pittsburgh Rail-Road Co. Minute Books, 1873.
{#300m.100}
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The Mahoning River Land Company
Minute Books, 1914-1928. {#300m.101}
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Middletown
& Crawford R.R. Minute Books, 1868-1930. {#300m.102}
- Midland
Railroad Company - Transfer Book 1880-1907. {#300m.103}
-
Mineral
Ridge Rail Road Minute Books, 1856-1870. {#300m.104}
-
Montgomery
& Erie Railway Company Minute Books, 1866-1954. {#300m.105}
-
Moosic Mountain & Carbondale R.R. Co. Minute Books, 1887-1942.
{#300m.106}
-
Newark & Hudson Railroad
Company Minute Books, 1871-1942. {#300m.107}
-
New
Castle & Shenango Valley Railroad Company Minute Books, 1887-1900. {#300m.108}
-
New Jersey Midland Railway Company Minute Books, 1870-1874.
{#300m.109}
-
New Jersey & New York
Extension Rail Road Company Minute Books, 1886-1935. {#300m.110}
-
New York & Greenwood Lake Railway Co. Minute Books, 1878-1949.
{#300m.111}
-
New York, Lake Erie &
Western Coal & R.R. Co. Minute Books, 1922-1942. {#300m.112}
-
New York Lake Erie and Western Docks and Improvement Company
Minute Books, 1864-1942. {#300m.113}
-
New
York Pennsylvania & Ohio Railroad Co. Minute Books, 1880-1895. {#300m.114}
- New
York, Pennsylvania & Ohio R.R. Co. - Right of Way and Lands, 1883. {#300m.115}
- New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio R.R. Co. - Documents (Bonds, Title,
etc.) undated. {#300m.116}
-
New York & Wilkes-Barre
Coal Company Minute Books, 1893-1904. {#300m.117}
-
Niles
& New Lisbon Railway Minute Books, 1869-1872. {#300m.118}
-
The Northern Railroad Company of New Jersey Minute Books, 1857-1949.
{#300m.119}
-
North Mountain Coal Co. Minute
Books, 1873. {#300m.120}
- North Western Mining & Exchange
Company of Erie, Pa. - Mortgage 1875. {#300m.121}
-
Nyack
& Northern Rail Road Company Minute Books, 1868-1912. {#300m.122}
-
Nyack & Southern Railroad Company Minute Books, 1899-1943.
{#300m.123}
-
Nypano Railroad Company Minute
Books, 1896-1942. {#300m.124}
- The Nypano Railroad Company
Organization & Lease of 1926. {#300m.125}
-
Out-O'Bounds,
Inc. Minute Books, 1945-1953. {#300m.126}
-
Paterson
& Hudson River Railroad Co. Minute Books, 1902-1946. {#300m.127}
-
Paterson Newark & New York R.R. Co. Minute Books, 1864-1942.
{#300m.128}
-
Paterson & Ramapo R.R.
Co. Minute Books, 1902-1947. {#300m.129}
-
Pavonia
Ferry Co. Minute Books, 1861-1940. {#300m.130}
-
Penhorn
Creek Railroad Company Minute Books, 1897-1942. {#300m.131}
- Pennsylvania
& Erie Coal & Railway Co. Mortgage 1875. {#300m.132}
-
Pennsylvania
& Ohio Canal Company Minute Books, 1871-1873. {#300m.133}
-
Pennsylvania Anthracite Coal Co. Minute Books,1885-1886. {#300m.134}
-
The Rayen Terminals Company Minute Books, 1926-1941.
{#300m.135}
-
Roseland Railway Company Minute
Books, 1891-1949. {#300m.136}
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The Sharon
Railway Company Minute Books, 1873-1952. {#300m.137}
-
Southern
Tier Development Company Minute Books, 1907-1949. {#300m.138}
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Standard Coal Co. Minute Books, 1873. {#300m.139}
-
Sugar Cabin Coal Co. Minute Books, 1873. {#300m.140}
-
Tioga Navigation Company Minute Books, 1835-1851. {#300m.141}
-
Tioga Railroad Company Minute Books, 1852-1942. {#300m.142}
-
The Union Rail Road Company Minute Books, 1851-1946. {#300m.143}
-
Washington Coal Co. Minute Books, 1847-1849. {#300m.144}
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The Wat-Chung Railway Company Minute Books, 1871-1891. {#300m.145}
-
West Clarion R.R. Co. Minute Books, 1897-1942. {#300m.146}
-
Wilcox & Howard Hill Improvement Co/New York Lake Erie &
Western Coal & Railroad Co. Minute Books, 1870-1942. {#300m.147}
-
The Wilkes-Barre & Eastern Railroad Company Index to Minutes
Minute Books, 1892-1934. {#300m.148}
- Wilkes-Barre & Eastern
Railroad Company Transfer Book 1895-1908. {#300m.149}
-
Wyoming
Coal Association Minute Books, 1847-1851. {#300m.150}
-
Trustees
of Wyoming Coal Association Minute Books, 1848-1850. {#300m.151}
-
Yatesville Coal Company Minute Books, 1905-1911. {#300m.152}
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The Youngstown and Austintown Rwy. Co. Minute Books, 1871-1942. {#300m.153}
- V2
Metal Plate Blue Prints, undated. {#300m.154}