On Jan. 4, 1970, the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad dispatched the trains known as the Lake Cities on their final trips – Train No. 5 from Hoboken, New Jersey, to Chicago and Train No. 6 from Chicago ...

The Erie-Lackawanna began as the New York & Erie Railroad Co., which was chartered in 1832-33 and commenced operations in 1841. The old NY&E disappeared under foreclosure in 1862, and the Erie Railway ...

The locomotive and its train predate NJ Transit. The New Jersey Department of Transportation had them designed and built to run on the Erie-Lackawanna railroad’s diesel-powered lines in the ...

SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) - A little piece of the Greatest Show on Earth will find a permanent home in Scranton. The Erie Lackawanna Dining Car Preservation Society, a Dunmore-based rail heritage group ...

as part of Erie Lackawanna Railway, service to Hoboken Terminal. The station also saw regular commuter service. The building served as a railroad station until 1983, when rail service was taken ...

It was the week between Christmas and New Year’s Eve in 1975, and the 14-year-old boy was on the Erie Lackawanna Railway tracks in South Orange, walking at the back of a single-file line with ...