The Interstate Commerce Commission last week put a newly merged railroad on the tracks and gave it a shove. It approved merger of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western and the Erie into the ...

it sat idling on the tracks in South Scranton on Sept. 19, 1977. When it slipped backwards out of the old Erie Lackawanna Railroad yard and began an unscheduled trip to Edwardsville at 10:20 p.m. that ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Originally collected by the National Museum of American History's Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering's reference collection. In 1978, ...

My grandfather retired from the Lehigh Valley and Erie Lackawanna Railroad, based in Sayre, Pennsylvania. He told me the RRs would run an engine till it was shot, then switch it to passenger service.