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40-750: (Redirected from Delaware Valley Railroad ) Railway in Pennsylvania, the United States Delaware Valley Railway Overview Reporting mark DV Locale Eastern Pennsylvania and Delaware Dates of operation 1994–1999 Predecessor Octoraro Railroad Successor Brandywine Valley Railroad Technical Track gauge 4 ft  8 + 1 ⁄ 2  in ( 1,435 mm ) standard gauge The Delaware Valley Railway ( reporting mark DV )

80-695: A 2-digit code indicating the vehicle's register country . The registered keeper of a vehicle is now indicated by a separate Vehicle Keeper Marking (VKM), usually the name of the owning company or an abbreviation thereof, which must be registered with the Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Rail (OTIF) and the European Union Agency for Railways (ERA) and which is unique throughout Europe and parts of Asia and Northern Africa. The VKM must be between two and five letters in length and can use any of

120-748: A distance of 139 miles (224 km). The original rail ancestor of the B&;LE, the Shenango and Allegheny Railroad, began operation in October 1869. Rail operations were maintained continuously by various corporate descendants on the growing system that ultimately became the BLE in 1900. In 2004 BLE came under the ownership of the Canadian National Railway (CN) as part of CN's larger purchase of holding company Great Lakes Transportation . BLE

160-464: A hyphen. Some examples: When a vehicle is sold it will not normally be transferred to another register. The Czech railways bought large numbers of coaches from ÖBB. The number remained the same but the VKM changed from A-ÖBB to A-ČD. The UIC introduced a uniform numbering system for their members based on a 12-digit number, largely known as UIC number . The third and fourth digit of the number indicated

200-571: A line from Queen Junction (near Butler, Pennsylvania) to Brady's Bend, Pennsylvania . It was known as the Western Allegheny Division, and was notable for being the last line that the B&LE's F-Units ran on. F-unit service on the line ended in 1992, and the last train, which was pulled by an EMD SD9 ran in November 1994. The line sat out of service until 2000, when it was abandoned. The tracks were removed in 2002, and today,

240-700: A predecessor of the CNW, from which the UP inherited it. Similarly, during the breakup of Conrail , the long-retired marks of the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) and New York Central Railroad (NYC) were temporarily brought back and applied to much of Conrail's fleet to signify which cars and locomotives were to go to CSX (all cars labeled NYC) and which to Norfolk Southern (all cars labeled PRR). Some of these cars still retain their temporary NYC marks. Because of its size, this list has been split into subpages based on

280-674: A series of small predecessor companies including the Pittsburgh, Shenango and Lake Erie Railroad , and the Butler and Pittsburgh Railroad Company. The company was renamed the Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad in 1900. Carnegie Steel had an exclusive 99-year lease to the PS&;LE. This lease was acquired by US Steel when that company acquired Carnegie Steel in 1901. At the end of 1925 B&LE operated 228 miles of road on 631 miles of track; at

320-526: Is operated by CN as their Bessemer Subdivision . As a subsidiary of CN, BLE has been largely unchanged (though repainting of BLE locomotives into CN paint with "BLE" sub-lettering began in April 2015 ) and still does business as BLE. BLE locomotives, especially the former Southern Pacific SD40T-3 "Tunnel Motors", have been scattered across the CN system; many are being used in the line that feeds most of BLE's traffic,

360-1001: The Brandywine Valley Railroad in Modena. The Delaware Valley Railway took over operations of these lines from the Octoraro Railroad on July 1, 1994. In 1999, the Delaware Valley Railway ceased operations, with the Brandywine Valley Railroad taking over operations of these lines. These lines are currently operated by the East Penn Railroad . References [ edit ] [REDACTED] Railways portal ^ STB (1999-06-10). "Certificate of Designated Operator, Brandywine Valley Railroad Company." Decision no. STB D-OP No. 100. See footnote 1 in

400-774: The Buffalo and Pittsburgh Railroad connects at Calvin Yard in Butler, Pennsylvania . The B&LE formerly interchanged at Osgood, Pennsylvania with the New York Central System , later Penn Central Railroad and then Conrail , until the latter abandoned the line in 1988. The main rail yard and locomotive and car shops are in Greenville, Pennsylvania . Although the B&LE acquired some early diesel-electric switching locomotives painted black with yellow trim, in 1950

440-495: The Pennsylvania Turnpike . In the steam era, B&LE had a fleet of 2-8-0 "Consolidation" types, classes C1 through C4; 2-10-2 "Santa Fe" types, classes D1 and D2; and 2-10-4 "Texas" type locomotives, class H1. The H1 locomotives were one of the most powerful non-articulated locomotives ever constructed. The B&LE also had a number of switchers, including 0-6-0s and 0-8-0s . Two steam locomotives from

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480-546: The 1950s-vintage SD9s. As a subsidiary of CN, the B&LE has been largely unchanged (though repainting of B&LE locomotives into CN paint with "BLE" sub-lettering began in April 2015 ). Bessemer and Lake Erie's locomotives, especially the SD40T-3 "Tunnel Motors," have been scattered across the CN system in the mid-late 2000s with the majority leaving the B&LE Property in March 2015. Many of these SD40T-3s are being used on

520-513: The 26 letters of the Latin alphabet . Diacritical marks may also be used, but they are ignored in data processing (for example, Ö is treated as though it is O ). The VKM is preceded by the code for the country (according to the alphabetical coding system described in Appendix 4 to the 1949 convention and Article 45(4) of the 1968 convention on road traffic), where the vehicle is registered and

560-535: The B&LE have been preserved, which are 2-10-4 No. 643 and 2-8-0 No. 154 . The road was dieselized in 1953. In the diesel era, B&LE's motive power has always been mostly Electro-Motive Division. It dieselized with many EMD F-units, which were supplemented by SD9s, SD18s, and ALCo RSD15s. Later, it bought a number of EMD SD38ACs and SD38-2s to replace the F-units. In the late 1990s, it bought many EMD SD40T-3 "Tunnel Motors" from Southern Pacific Railroad to replace

600-481: The B&LE shops are located), and then climbs back up to Kremis, en route to Fredonia and North Bessemer. The B&LE constructed the shortcut K-O Line in 1901–02 to bypass the steep, winding route through Greenville. From 'KO Junction', it runs south over a long (1,724 feet (525 m)) viaduct above the Little Shenango River, the original B&LE Old Line, the former NYC RR's JF&C Branch and

640-726: The Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad. Iron ore and coal are still the route's major freight commodities. The B&LE connects with the Norfolk Southern Railway at Wallace Junction, near Girard, Pennsylvania , and at the Shenango Yard in Greenville, Pennsylvania . The Union Railroad connects at the B&LE's southern terminus at Penn Hills' North Bessemer Yard. CSX (formerly the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad ) connects at Shenango Yard (the Pennsylvania Railroad may have connected here, too), and

680-599: The Metrolink system—even though it is operated by Amtrak. This is why the reporting mark for CSX Transportation , which is an operating railroad, is CSXT instead of CSX. Private (non-common carrier) freight car owners in Mexico were issued, up until around 1990, reporting marks ending in two X's, possibly to signify that their cars followed different regulations (such as bans on friction bearing trucks) than their American counterparts and so their viability for interchange service

720-593: The Mon Valley Works. The Pittsburgh, Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad Company was founded in 1897 by Andrew Carnegie to haul iron ore and other products from the port at Conneaut, Ohio , on the Great Lakes to Carnegie Steel Company plants in Pittsburgh and the surrounding region. On the return trip, Pennsylvania coal was hauled north to Conneaut Harbor. The company was created largely out of

760-492: The Mon Valley Works. As of October 2022, the locomotives on the Bessemer include a set of 3 or 4 CN EMD SD70M-2s (CN 8800, 8804, 8827, 8876, and 8907 are currently on the property) for ore trains. B&LE Tunnel Motor 905, B&LE SD38AC 868, and B&LE SD38 862 (painted in the Duluth, Missabe, and Iron Range Railroad scheme) are kept on the line for use on locals, and rare appearances on the ore trains. 868 previously operated at

800-5062: The STB certificate. ^ Beideman, Don (July 31, 1994). "New Operator Keeps Shipments On Track The Delaware Valley Railway Takes Over The Octoraro's Lines" . The Philadelphia Inquirer . Archived from the original on September 19, 2015 . Retrieved April 15, 2013 . ^ East Penn Railroad Map (PDF) (Map). DeskMap Systems. 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 1, 2012 . Retrieved December 12, 2011 . v t e Railroads of Pennsylvania Common carriers Aliquippa and Ohio River Railroad Allegheny Valley Railroad Belvidere and Delaware River Railway Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad Buffalo and Pittsburgh Railroad Brandywine Valley Railroad Canadian Pacific Kansas City Chestnut Ridge Railroad Central New York Railroad Columbia and Reading Railway CSX Transportation Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad Eastern Berks Gateway Railroad East Erie Commercial Railroad East Penn Railroad Everett Railroad Gettysburg and Northern Railroad Juniata Valley Railroad Kasgro Rail Lines Kiski Junction Railroad Lehigh Railway Luzerne and Susquehanna Railway Landisville Railroad Lehigh Valley Rail Management: Bethlehem Division Lycoming Valley Railroad Middletown and Hummelstown Railroad McKeesport Connecting Railroad Maryland Midland Railway Mittal Steel Railways Nittany and Bald Eagle Railroad New Castle Industrial Railroad NDC Railroad New Hope Railroad New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway Norfolk Southern Railway North Shore Railroad Oil Creek and Titusville Railroad Pittsburgh, Allegheny and McKees Rocks Railroad Pennsylvania Northeastern Railroad Pittsburgh and Ohio Central Railroad Pennsylvania and Southern Railway Pennsylvania Southwestern Railroad Reading Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad R.J. Corman Railroad/Allentown Lines R.J. Corman Railroad/Pennsylvania Lines Stourbridge Railroad Steelton and Highspire Railroad SMS Rail Lines Strasburg Rail Road Shamokin Valley Railroad Southwest Pennsylvania Railroad Towanda–Monroeton Shippers Lifeline Tyburn Railroad Union County Industrial Railroad Upper Merion and Plymouth Railroad Union Railroad Wellsboro and Corning Railroad Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad York Railway Youngstown and Southeastern Railroad Passenger carriers Amtrak NJ Transit Rail Operations SEPTA Regional Rail Private carriers Cumberland Mine Railroad EASX Railroad Philadelphia Belt Line Railroad Heritage railroads Allentown and Auburn Railroad Colebrookdale Railroad Duquesne Incline East Broad Top Railroad and Coal Company Electric City Trolley Museum Fayette Central Railroad Johnstown Inclined Plane Kiski Junction Railroad Reading Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad Middletown and Hummelstown Railroad Monongahela Incline New Hope Railroad Oil Creek and Titusville Railroad Pioneer Lines Scenic Railway Pennsylvania Trolley Museum Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania Rockhill Trolley Museum Strasburg Rail Road Tioga Central Railroad West Chester Railroad Wanamaker, Kempton and Southern Railroad See also: Former carriers in Pennsylvania List of United States railroads by political division v t e Railroads of Delaware Common carriers Conrail Shared Assets Operations CSX Transportation Delmarva Central Railroad East Penn Railroad Maryland and Delaware Railroad Norfolk Southern Railway Wilmington and Western Railroad Passenger carriers Amtrak SEPTA Regional Rail Heritage railroads Wilmington and Western Railroad See also: Former carriers in Delaware List of United States railroads by political division Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Delaware_Valley_Railway&oldid=1254588888 " Categories : Defunct Delaware railroads Defunct Pennsylvania railroads Railway companies disestablished in 1999 Railway companies established in 1994 RailAmerica Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description matches Wikidata Reporting mark In North America ,

840-682: The VKM BLS. Example for an "Einheitswagen" delivered in 1957: In the United Kingdom, prior to nationalisation, wagons owned by the major railways were marked with codes of two to four letters, these codes normally being the initials of the railway concerned; for example, wagons of the Great Western Railway were marked "G W"; those of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway were marked "L M S", etc. The codes were agreed between

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880-541: The acquiring company discontinues the name or mark of the acquired company, the discontinued mark is referred to as a "fallen flag" railway. Occasionally, long-disused marks are suddenly revived by the companies which now own them. For example, in recent years, the Union Pacific Railroad has begun to use the mark CMO on newly built covered hoppers, gondolas and five-bay coal hoppers. CMO originally belonged to Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway ,

920-430: The company adopted a locomotive color scheme of bright orange and black which is still in use. Because the B&LE's primary traffic is iron ore, it adopted rust-colored hoppers so the ore wouldn't produce noticeable stains on its cars. The B&LE also saw passenger traffic, and maintained a spur line from its main line east to Conneaut Lake Park amusement park for dropping off and picking up excursionists visiting

960-529: The end of 1970 mileages were 220 and 489. In 1988 the Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad became part of Transtar, Inc. , a privately held transportation holding company with principal operations in railroad freight transportation, dock operations, Great Lakes shipping, and inland river barging that were formerly subsidiaries of USX, the holding company that owns U.S. Steel. In 2001 the Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad became part of Great Lakes Transportation, LLC . On May 10, 2004 Canadian National Railway acquired

1000-448: The first letter of the reporting mark: A railway vehicle must be registered in the relevant state's National Vehicle Register (NVR), as part of which process it will be assigned a 12-digit European Vehicle Number (EVN). The EVN schema is essentially the same as that used by the earlier UIC numbering systems for tractive vehicles and wagons , except that it replaces the 2-digit vehicle owner's code (see § Europe 1964 to 2005 ) with

1040-518: The former Duluth, Missabe, and Iron Range lines in Minnesota. The iron ore that originates on these lines is transloaded to ships at Two Harbors, Minnesota , then sent by ship to Conneaut, Ohio , where it is again transloaded to BLE trains. It is then taken down to steel mills in the Pittsburgh region, mainly to the blast furnaces at US Steel's Edgar Thomson Plant in Braddock, Pennsylvania , part of

1080-568: The former Erie RR's Chicago—New York main line at Osgood. It then passes east of downtown Greenville at a relatively high elevation, and rejoins the original line at KY, near Kremis. The K-O Line cut-off shortened KO to KY run by 3.1 miles vs. the Old Line. Except for the Osgood Viaduct, this cut-off was double-tracked for many years but, since the arrival of CTC signaling in the 1950s, is now entirely single track. The B&LE operated

1120-529: The home country may also be included. The Association of American Railroads (AAR) assigns marks to all carriers, under authority granted by the U.S. Surface Transportation Board , Transport Canada , and Mexican Government. Railinc , a subsidiary of the AAR, maintains the active reporting marks for the North American rail industry. Under current practice, the first letter must match the initial letter of

1160-510: The line that feeds most of B&LE's traffic, the former Duluth, Missabe, and Iron Range Railroad in Minnesota. The iron ore that originates on these lines is transloaded to ships at Two Harbors, Minnesota; then sent by ship to Conneaut, Ohio, where it is again transloaded to B&LE trains. It is then taken down to steel mills in the Pittsburgh area, mainly to the blast furnaces at US Steel's Edgar Thomson Plant in Braddock, Pennsylvania, part of

1200-415: The mark, which consists of an alphabetic code of two to four letters, is stenciled on each piece of equipment, along with a one- to six-digit number. This information is used to uniquely identify every such rail car or locomotive, thus allowing it to be tracked by the railroad it is traveling over, which shares the information with other railroads and customers. In multinational registries, a code indicating

1240-572: The owner of a reporting mark is taken over by another company, the old mark becomes the property of the new company. For example, when the Union Pacific Railroad (mark UP) acquired the Chicago and North Western Railway (mark CNW) in 1995, it retained the CNW mark rather than immediately repaint all acquired equipment. Some companies own several marks that are used to identify different classes of cars, such as boxcars or gondolas. If

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1280-405: The owner, or more precisely the keeper of the vehicle. Thus each UIC member got a two-digit owner code . With the introduction of national vehicle registers this code became a country code. Some vehicles had to be renumbered as a consequence. The Swiss company BLS Lötschbergbahn had the owner code 63. When their vehicles were registered, they got numbers with the country code 85 for Switzerland and

1320-465: The park. The B&LE main line divides around Greenville, between a waypoint north of the village of Osgood called 'KO' and another waypoint near the village of Kremis that used the telegraph call name 'KY', for the "Osgood-Kremis" cut-off ("K-O") that joined the original "Old Line" there. The latter still winds down along the Little Shenango and Shenango Rivers into downtown Greenville (where

1360-529: The railroad name. As it also acts as a Standard Carrier Alpha Code , the reporting mark cannot conflict with codes in use by other nonrail carriers. Marks ending with the letter "X" are assigned to companies or individuals who own railcars, but are not operating railroads; for example, the TTX Company (formerly Trailer Train Company) is named for its original reporting mark of TTX. In another example,

1400-537: The railways and registered with the Ministry of Railways , Government of India . Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad The Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad ( reporting mark BLE ) was a class II railroad that operates in northwestern Pennsylvania and northeastern Ohio . The railroad's main route runs from the Lake Erie port of Conneaut, Ohio , to the Pittsburgh suburb of Penn Hills, Pennsylvania ,

1440-762: The railways and registered with the Railway Clearing House . In India, wagons owned by the Indian Railways are marked with codes of two to four letters, these codes normally being the initials of the railway divisions concerned along with the Hindi abbreviation; for example, trains of the Western Railway zone are marked "WR" and "प रे"; those of the Central Railway zone are marked "CR" and "मध्य", etc. The codes are agreed between

1480-656: The reporting mark for state-funded Amtrak services in California is CDTX (whereas the usual Amtrak mark is AMTK) because the state transportation agency ( Caltrans ) owns the equipment used in these services. This may also apply to commuter rail, for example Metrolink in Southern California uses the reporting mark SCAX because the equipment is owned by the Southern California Regional Rail Authority —which owns

1520-481: The right of way is barely visible. There was originally one tunnel on the B&LE mainline at Culmerville, but it was dug out or "daylighted" in 1922, converting it to an open cut through a hill. As it approaches North Bessemer, the B&LE is also noticeable where it crosses the Allegheny River on the 2,327 feet (709 m) Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad Bridge immediately east of and parallel to

1560-517: Was a short-line railroad in southeastern Pennsylvania and northern Delaware in the United States . The railroad was owned by RailAmerica . The Delaware Valley Railway operated two lines: one running from Elsmere, Delaware north to Modena, Pennsylvania and one running from Sylmar, Pennsylvania to Wawa, Pennsylvania . The railroad interchanged with CSX Transportation in Elsmere and

1600-580: Was impaired. This often resulted in five-letter reporting marks, an option not otherwise allowed by the AAR. Companies owning trailers used in trailer-on-flatcar service are assigned marks ending with the letter "Z", and the National Motor Freight Traffic Association , which maintains the list of Standard Carrier Alpha Codes, assigns marks ending in "U" to owners of intermodal containers . The standard ISO 6346 covers identifiers for intermodal containers. When

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