Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad

The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company (DL & W or Lackawanna ) was a railway company, the carbon -rich Lackawanna Valley ( Lackawanna Valley), located in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, with New York City, Buffalo and Oswego (all in the State of New York) association. Your main line with a length of 200 miles resulted from Binghamton (New York) to BlackRock ( New York).

In 1960 it merged with the Erie Railroad to the Erie Lackawanna Railroad, which merged into Conrail in 1976.

History

The DL & W was taken on March 11, 1853 of two railway companies: the Delaware and Cobb 's Gap Railroad and the Lackawanna and Western Railroad. The route network of the company grew in the following years through purchases of railway companies and roadway support.

On March 15, 1876 built with a track width of 1829 mm grid was converted to standard gauge.

Built in 1908, the DL & W a large station building in Scranton, Pennsylvania (now Steamtown National Historic Site ).

On October 17, 1960 DL & W merged with a former competitor, the Erie Railroad, Erie Lackawanna Railroad to ( EL), which went bankrupt in 1972. The infrastructure was taken over by Conrail when it was founded in 1976.