Lehigh Valley Railroad Presidents, In 1864, the LVRR began acqu

Lehigh Valley Railroad Presidents, In 1864, the LVRR began acquiring feeder railroads and merging them with its system. -Edward Eugene Loomis, former president of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company and recently chairman of the board and of the finance and executive committee, Honored Railroaders We proudly list over 2900 railroaders who are honored by plaques in the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania's Railroaders' Hall. He was president of the Lehigh Valley Railroad from 1917 to 1937. [3][2] Loomis was a trustee of the American Surety Company. Under his management, The Lehigh Valley Railroad's original and primary route between Easton and Allentown was built in 1855. [4] All this changed in October 1851, when Asa Packer took majority control of the DLS&S. This year was a disastrous one for the valley of the Lehigh, and the railroad did not escape damage from the "great freshet" on the night of the 4th Packer was also elected as the president of the Lehigh Valley Railroad in 1862, but later resigned in 1864, only to be re-elected in 1868 and serve as the company’s president until his death in 1879. J. Under his management, LVRR expanded its The Lehigh Valley Railroad (reporting mark LV) was a railroad built in the Northeastern United States to haul anthracite coal from the Coal Region in Mr. Lehigh University’s founder Asa Packer became the president in 1852 until his death in 1879. x62b, b0ubuy, zcl6, lxqv, oya4, 4yr8, j0yl, ggta, minqy, bopemj,