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"The Lehigh Valley route takes the travelers through the mountain of Northern Pennsylvania, the coal regions and the lumber country, Buffalo and the West. It is an interesting route, with an excellent train service, and affords access to a very picturesque section of the country. It has a new express train, the Black Diamond, to Buffalo, which has already become very popular."....
...Brooklyn Daily Eagle, June 16, 1896
"The Erie lines, stretching westward through the 'southern tier,' with numerous branches extending off on either side, up into the mountains of Sullivan and Orange counties, the lake regions in the central part of the state, and down into Pennsylvania, furnishes one of the finest vacation routes that can be devised. ....There is not a foot of ] track that is not interesting and the journey over the line from one end to the other is full of charm. It is one of the most picturesque roads in the United States. The Chautaquans, whose summer mecca is on the shores of the lovely lake from which their name is derived, have good reason to look with far away eyes upon the Erie. the solid vestibuled trains and the excursion rates are a temptation that one can yield to with a good conscience."
"The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western railroad is one of the great roads of this country. we don't hear quite so much about it as we do of some other roads with poorer reputations. The people who patronize the road know and appreciate it and stockholders never complain. The company has had good management and has worked on the policy that the best equipment was none too good. From roadbed to the decorations of the cars the workmanship has been the best that could be had. The country through which this road goes is exceedingly interesting to the vacationist. It touches a great variety of summer resorts..."
they go into other railroads, even the B&M, very picturesque
Ferries left the foot of Fulton Street for Jersey City until WW I when the government put the LV into Pennsylvania Station
June 20, 1897 Brooklyn Daily Eagle:
in an article on fast trains:
"In December, 1892, a remarkable run was made by the Royal Blue line from Philadelphia to Jersey City. At various points on the journey spurts of speed were made that ran as high as 79¼ miles an hour. Between Wayne Junction and Wardley the eleven miles averaged 73 1/3 miles an hour, the average for the last three miles being 81 1/3 miles an hour. One mile was covered in 40 seconds. Six miles between Plainfield and Elizabeth were covered in 47, 46, 47, 50, 54 and 58 seconds, respectively, and the engineer who ran that train seemed confident of the engine's ability to make from 97 to 100 miles an hour. On this same line there is a record of a mile in 37 seconds, which was made between Westfield and Cranford, N.J.; this however is 5 seconds longer than the record of the famous engine 999 on the New York Central road in May, 1893. A special Royal Blue line train, March 2, 1897, ran from Jersey City to Washington in 4 hours and 8 minutes, the actual running time, deducting 19 minutes for stops and unavoidable delays, for the 230 miles was 229 minutes. This makes a new record between those points, the best previous performances having been done in 1891 on the Pennsylvania Railroad, 4 hours and 11 minutes.
One of the most notable performances in railroad speed that has been made was done by a newspaper train on the Pennsylvania railroad from Camden to Atlantic City in April, 1895. The distance of 58.3 miles was covered in 45¾ minutes actual running time, being an average of 76½ miles an hour. this is the fastest time ever made between the Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean and is actually the fastest time made by a railway train for that particular distance....
....In March, 1896, a remarkable trip was made by the Congressional express on the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore railway in the run from Baltimore to Gray's Ferry, a distance of 92½ miles, in 88 minutes--sixty-three miles an hour with one stop. The Black Diamond express, on the Lehigh Valley railroad, has accomplished the trip from Jersey City to Buffalo, 448 miles, in 9 hours and 8 minutes actual time. On stretches of level road as high as 70 miles an hour has been made, and the Allegheny mountains have been climbed at 60 miles an hour and the 56 miles between Laceyville and Sayre covered with ease in 49 minutes. A record breaking train on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western railroad October 5, 1895, made the trip from Buffalo to Binghamton, 199 miles, in 175 minutes, and from Corning to Big Flats, 6½ miles, in 4 minutes, or at t the rate of 99½ miles an hour...
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