The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, better known as the
Lackawanna Railroad, was organized in 1851 and thrived on the anthracite
coal traffic originating from the area surrounding Scranton,
Pennsylvania.
The company came to operate a network of track between Hoboken, New
Jersey, and Buffalo, New York, before becoming part of the Erie
Lackawanna Railway in 1960. During the first decade of the 1900s, the
railroad underwent a substantial modernization and improvement project,
which was documented extensively by company-hired photographers. A
century later, these images provide a fascinating insight into the
everyday workings of a railroad and its interaction with the communities
along its route. Nearly all of the railroad territory covered by this
book remains in operation today.