In 1840, brothers Selden T. and George W. Scranton founded what would become the Lackawanna Steel Company.

In 1922, it purchased the Lackawanna Steel Company, which included the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad as well as extensive coal holdings.

From 1949 to 1952, Bethlehem Steel had a contract with the federal government of the United States to roll uranium fuel rods for nuclear reactors in Bethlehem Steel's Lackawanna, New York plant.

* Lackawanna Steel Company

Once past Wanakah, the road once again closely borders the lake shore and goes through steadily more heavily developed areas, particularly the Ford Stamping Plant and the Bethlehem Steel plant in the city of Lackawanna where the road is called the Hamburg Turnpike and eight wind powered turbines, which pump power into the national grid are visible.

* Lackawanna Steel Company, a former steel company that started in Scranton then moved to western New York

He was a director of some large corporations, like the Lackawanna Steel Company, Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, Mergenthaler Linotype Company and Shredded Wheat Company.

Before it opened, the Delaware and Cobb's Gap and Lackawanna and Western were consolidated by the Lackawanna Steel Company into one company, the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, on March 11, 1853.

Plan of the Lackawanna Steel Plant ca.

* Cottage Hose Company / Mobile 9, based in Carbondale, Lackawanna County, provides advanced life support to a small southern end of the county including Waymart, South Canaan Township and Clinton Township.

The NYC had to compete with its two biggest rivals: the Pennsylvania Railroad ( PRR ), and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad ( B & O ), in addition to more moderate-size railroads such as the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad ( DLW ), the Erie Railroad, the Reading Company, the Central Railroad of New Jersey, and the Lehigh Valley Railroad.

This sent a trickle effect throughout the already fragile railroad industry forcing many of the other Northeastern railroads into insolvency, among them the Erie Lackawanna, Boston and Maine, the Central Railroad of New Jersey, the Reading Company, and the Lehigh Valley.

Born in Detroit, Michigan, Mosed moved to Lackawanna as a child when his father's automotive job with Ford Motor Company was relocated to the Buffalo plant.

Other bankrupt railroads included the Ann Arbor Railroad ( 1973 ), Erie Lackawanna Railway ( 1972 ), Lehigh Valley Railroad ( 1970 ), Reading Company ( 1971 ), Central Railroad of New Jersey ( 1967 ) and Lehigh and Hudson River Railway ( 1972 ).

* Lake Lackawanna, Byram Twp., Sussex County, NJ, a man made lake ( circa 1911 ) and golf course owned by the Lake Lackawanna Investment Company

The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company ( DL & W or Lackawanna Railroad ) was a U. S. Class 1 railroad that connected Buffalo, New York, and Hoboken, New Jersey, a distance of.

The federal government created it to take over the potentially profitable lines of multiple bankrupt carriers, including the Penn Central Transportation Company and Erie Lackawanna Railway.

The 1975 Final System Plan left major parts of the Erie Lackawanna Railway and Reading Company out of Conrail.

The plan was unveiled July 26, 1975, consisting of lines from Penn Central and six other companies — the Ann Arbor Railroad ( bankrupt 1973 ), Erie Lackawanna Railway ( 1972 ), Lehigh Valley Railroad ( 1970 ), Reading Company ( 1971 ), Central Railroad of New Jersey ( 1967 ) and Lehigh and Hudson River Railway ( 1972 ).

When Kamal Derwish moved back to Lackawanna in 2000, he lived with his uncle until Goba volunteered to split an apartment with him.

The team finally moved to the Lackawanna County in 1989 and were renamed Scranton / Wilkes-Barre Red Barons.

The Erie Jersey City terminal was abandoned circa 1959 after all Erie service had moved to the Lackawanna Hoboken Terminal.

In 1956, the Erie Railroad consolidated its operations with the Lackawanna Railroad and moved to a terminal in Hoboken.

Derwish returned home to Lackawanna in 2000, and moved in with his uncle until Yahya Goba offered to share an apartment with him.

* 1911 – Lackawanna Cut-Off railway line opens in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

Just months before his death in 1931, the Lackawanna Railroad implemented electric trains in suburban service from Hoboken to Gladstone, Montclair and Dover in New Jersey.

A special plaque commemorating the joint achievement of both the railway and Edison can be seen today in the waiting room of Lackawanna Terminal in Hoboken, presently operated by New Jersey Transit.

The Paulins Kill Viaduct, Hainesburg, New Jersey, is 115 feet ( 35 m ) tall and 1, 100 feet ( 335 m ) long, and was heralded as the largest reinforced concrete structure in the world when it was completed in 1910 as part of the Lackawanna Cut-Off rail line project.

The city was at one time served by the Lehigh Valley Railroad, Central Railroad of New Jersey, the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad ( later Erie Lackawanna Railway ), Delaware and Hudson Railway, the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Wilkes-Barre and Eastern Railroad, and the Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley Railroad ( known as the Laurel Line ).

Filmed in November 1903 at Edison's New York studio, at Essex County Park in New Jersey, and along the Lackawanna railroad.

Most of the county is drained by the Delaware River ( which separates it from New York ,) except for small western areas drained by the Starrucca Creek and the Lackawanna River into the Susquehanna River.

Millburn Township is served by two New Jersey Transit railroad stations along the Morristown Line: the Millburn station, located at the intersection of Essex Avenue and Lackawanna Place near the Millburn Free Public Library, and the Short Hills station, located near The Crescent Street between Hobart Avenue and Chatham Road.

The " M & E " later became a part of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad ( DL & W ), which exists today as New Jersey Transit's Morristown Line.

The Orange and Highland Avenue stations provide New Jersey Transit train service along the Morris & Essex Lines ( formerly Erie Lackawanna Railway ).

By the late 19th century, shipping lines were using Hoboken as a terminal port, and the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad ( later the Erie Lackawanna Railroad ) developed a railroad terminal at the waterfront, with the present New Jersey Transit terminal designed by architetct Kenneth Murchison constructed in 1907.

Hampton was once known as " Junction " because the Central Railroad of New Jersey and the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad crossed through here.

The Morris Canal, although going into a rapid decline, still employed a number of men ; the Lackawanna Railroad, which had completed its Boonton-Paterson branch in 1875, gave employment to a number of Boonton people and provided commuter service to a number of Boonton residents who worked in New York City.

Railroad service in the south was from the New Jersey Midland starting around the 1850s and in the north around the 1870s from the Montclair Railroad, out of Montclair, New Jersey and later the Erie Railroad ( before their merger with the Lackawanna Railroad ).

The Village of Blasdell lies in the northern part of the Town of Hamburg and is due south of Buffalo, New York and the City of Lackawanna.

This portion of track was built opened in 1882 as the New York ( Hoboken ) to Buffalo line of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad.

Many of these services were maintained by Amtrak until 1991, when the former Erie Lackawanna and Pennsylvania Railroad mainlines between New York and Chicago were downgraded.

In 1873, the line came under the control of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, which was backed by powerful New York financiers, and which operated several collieries along its length, including the Avondale Colliery in Plymouth.