ELHS Test/Dev Site

The Erie Lackawanaa Historical Society maintains an extensive collections of railroad valuation maps created in the early part of the 20th centry. Several corporation and individuals have found these maps to be useful for conducting research for titles, property rights, scholarly works, and model railroading.  Click the read more like to learn about this collection and search the database.  The following finding aid and valuation map collection index have been created by Scott Randolph, ELHS Collection Curator.  Member Stephen Titchenal provided the scanned file name matching for it.

Welcome to the official web site of the Erie Lackawanna Historical Society, Inc., a historical society dedicated to preserving and disseminating information about the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, the Erie Railroad, the Erie Lackawanna Railway and related lines.

Our mission is for this web site to be a useful asset to our members as well as a valuable research and reference to those interested in the history of the DL&W, Erie and Erie Lackawanna.

If you have information, documents, photographs or other ephemera relating to the railroads we cover and would like to share it with others with a similar interest through this web site, we encourage you to do so. We do request that prior to submitting any information you contact the webmaster via email using the link at the bottom of the page.

Special Note About Former Railroad Employee Records: The Erie Lackawanna Historical Society does not have access to or maintain in its Archives employee records from the DL&W, Erie or Erie Lackawanna. Two web sites that might prove useful to those in search of employee records are the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board web site and for former Erie Railroad employees and a possible lead for former DL&W employees, Jim Sponholz's web site pages dedicated to helping find former railroad employee records.

The ELHS logo is an adaptation of an original design by Paul R. Tupaczewski. Adapted and used with permission.