L&S Area – Main Line & Mountain Cut-Off

The L&S Area was part of CNJ prior to 4/1/72, so LVRR traffic figures are given only for that year. The Traffic Track Diagrams for the L&S Area Branch Lines give both mileages and location N or S of track for the industries, which was not done for the LVRR branch lines.

M.P.

STATIONS (from ETT #10)
YARDS and Industries (from Traffic Track Diagrams)

N or S of track

Carloads Shipped/Received
1969 1970 1971 1972
L&S Main Line – Bethlehem to Lehighton
This is the former CNJ main line on the south side of the Lehigh River. Although LV trains used it after 11/1/1965 under the joint trackage agreement with the CNJ, I can not find it in Employee Timetable No. 9 (10/27/68). The station listing below comes from Employee Timetable No. 10 (8/10/1975).
72.8 EASTON          
73.0 Lehigh Furniture N       5
73.1 Industrial Dismantling S       5
73.2 H.H. Crowder S       5
  General Supply S       4
73.3 Lehigh Inc. S       25
73.4 Ingersol Rand S       58
75.3 Easton Concrete S      
77.2 E & W JCT.          
81.4 FREEMANSBURG          
  Scholl Lumber S       60
83.0 MINSI TRAIL BRANCH
84.3 BETHLEHEM R-Easton          
84.3 L&NE Interchange N       9534
84.3 Asbury Graphite S       19
84.5 JU R-Steel
EAST END ALLENTOWN YARD
         
85.5 STEEL          
86.6 Allentown State Hospital N       20
86.9 VN (#1 track) R-Steel          
87.1 VN (#2 track) R-Steel
88.2 R TOWER
ALLENTOWN TERMINAL RAILROAD
READING INTERCHANGE
      41946 115864
88.6 George Woloch N       92
88.8 EAST ALLENTOWN          
88.8 Purolator N       116
90.2 WK
WEST END ALLENTOWN YARD
         
92.4 Fuller Co. N       26
92.5 CATASAUQUA          
92.5 F.W. Mint Lumber N       18
92.6 Phoenix Mfg.  N       29
93.1 Sheftel & Son N       46
94.5 NORTHAMPTON          
  N&B INTERCHANGE N       2775
95.6 SIEGFRIED          
96.0 Martin Marietta Cement N       1212
96.5 Penna. Power & Light N       8
100.0 TREICHLER R-R Tower          
100.5 ConAgra N & S       723
104.7 WALNUTPORT          
104.7 Paris Neckwear N      

27

105.0 American Nickeloid N      

10

108.4 PALMERTON          
108.4 Chestnut Ridge Railway N       8895
110.1 WEST END HAZARD          
111.0 BOWMANSTOWN          
114.0 WEISSPORT          
114.2 Strauby’s Feed N       15
  Penna. Power & Light S      
114.7 LEHIGHTON R-Easton
RETURN TO LVRR MAIN LINE
117.8 JIM THORPE          
119.2 NESQUEHONING JCT.
NESQUEHONING VALLEY BRANCH

MINSI TRAIL BRANCH – L&S AREA – 1 mile long

0.0 MINSI TRAIL JCT
83.1 Air Reduction N       649
82.1 Just Born Candy S       33
1.0 END OF TRACK

NESQUEHONING VALLEY BRANCH – L&S AREA – 16.7 miles long
Mileages given in ETT#10 and 1973 TTD differ significantly. TTD miles given in italics.

0.0 PACKERTON JCT          
2.5 NESQUEHONING JCT
3.4 International Technomation? (can’t read on original) S       11
  Quartite S       5
  Kovatch Trucking S       111
5.9 NESQUEHONING
10.0
7.5
HAUTO
Penna. Power & Light S      
  HOMETOWN          
  Eastern Diversified Metals N       440
18.0
15.4
HAUCKS
  Air Products & Chemicals N      
19.2 TAMANEND
L&S Main Line – Fraser to Franklin
After the joint trackage agreement with CNJ, effective 11/1/65, LV mainline trains switched to CNJ (Lehigh & Susquehanna) trackage at Fraser, so CNJ mileages are shown for this section. CNJ continued to serve the customers in this area until 4/1/72, when it abandoned all PA operations. After the LV takeover, the  former CNJ trackage was known as the L&S Area Main Line.
143.8 FRASER R-CNJ Allentown/Coxton Int
147.6 TUNNEL
152.2 CRESTWOOD R-CNJ Allentown/Coxton Int (P.T.A.)
(Under jurisdiction Agent Luzerne)
        2498
  Crestwood Industrial Park S       2493
  Certain-Teed St. Gobain Corp. S       2230
  American Tobacco Co. S       3
  Harte & Co. S       25
152.4 Foster-Wheeler Corp. S       215
155.3 PENOBSCOT          
  Superior Certified Concrete Co. S      
156.5 SOLOMONS GAP R-CNJ Allentown/Coxton Int
(Right-of-way to Ashley, via Laurel Run
and Georgetown out of service 1973)
         
161.2 LAUREL RUN R-CNJ Allentown/Coxton Int
MOUNTAIN CUT-OFF
166.9 GEORGETOWN R-CNJ Allentown
169.2 ASHLEY
NANTICOKE BRANCH
170.5 FRANKLIN
FRANKLIN BRANCH
At Franklin, the main line switched back to LV trackage and mileages. After 4/1/72, this area was designated the Wilkes-Barre Secondary Track.
Mountain Cut-Off
This was an alternative main line for LV through freights, to avoid the steep grades of the original main line through Wilkes-Barre. It eventually became THE main line through this area, and the Wilkes-Barre trackage was reduced to a secondary track.
164.1 LAUREL RUN R-Coxton Int          
164.7 Olivers Mills, Pa
L.V.R.R
         
165.7 DEEP HOLLOW          
171.0 Owens-Illinois Glass, Inc. N 178 297 305 449
172.3 JENKINS          
  Eagan Lumber Co. S 12 11 1 1
  Marketers Cold Storage S 10 11 44 17
  Inter-Cities Dist. Co. S 117 111 71 67
175.5 DUPONT R-Coxton Int
Interchange between LV & D&H, effective April 4, 1973
         
176.2 AVOCA          
  Moss-American Inc.  N 0 1 0 0
177.5 DURYEA          
178.9 COXTON INTERLOCKING

Key:
STATIONS FROM EMPLOYEE TIMETABLES ARE IN CAPITALS
LVRR LOCATIONS FROM TRAFFIC TRACK DIAGRAMS ARE IN ITALIC CAPITALS
A = freight agent, N = no agent, MFA = metropolitan (?) freight agent, PTA = part-time agent
Customer locations from traffic track diagrams are in lower case
Locations listed in earlier Employee Timetables, but deleted in 1975 Employee Timetable No. 10, are shown in gray. If anyone can provide exact dates of abandonment, I will include them.
Stations from the Employee Timetables whose location relative to industries or LVRR installations in the Traffic Track Diagrams are not clear are shown in blue. Also, a few mileages given in the ETT do not agree with the order in which the stations are listed, and these mileages are shown in red. I welcome any information which will help to clear up these discrepancies.

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