Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Lehigh and Hudson River Railway (L&HR) was the smallest of the six railroads that were merged into Conrail in 1976. It was a bridge line running northeast-southwest across northwestern New Jersey, connecting the line to the Poughkeepsie Bridge at Maybrook, New York with Easton, Pennsylvania, where it interchanged with various other companies. It status was diminished as the Interstate Highway system was developed, and as its connecting railroads entered bankruptcy. The final straw came with the burning of the Poughkeepsie Bridge on May 8, 1974. The line was conveyed to Conrail and subsequently acquired by the Norfolk Southern and the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway who lease their portions of the line to the Middletown and New Jersey Railroad.