High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! 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 400 miles (640 km). Incorporated in 1853, the DL&W at its peak would have 900 route-miles (1,450 km) of track including branchlines to Ithaca, Syracuse, and Oswego in New York; Bloomsburg and Bangor in Pennsylvania; Chester, Gladstone, and Montclair in New Jersey; and elsewhere. The DL&W was a very profitable company, especially during the first two decades of the twentieth century, but its margins were eventually by declining traffic in coal, its chief freight commodity; competition from trucks; and high New Jersey taxes. In 1960, the DL&W merged with the Erie Railroad, its bitter rival, to form the Erie Lackawanna Railroad. The EL spent most of its 16 years in the red and was conveyed to Conrail in 1976. About half of DL&W's former lines remain in operation....

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