Jasper N. Haines was a career railroader, logging nearly fifty years with the Lehigh Valley railroad, in the decades when "The Road of Anthracite" was one of the East's most powerful carriers. Near the end of his career, he availed himself of the company's archives to compile an illustrated history of LV locomotive development. This web site has been created from the material found in the scrapbook.

Jasper N. Haines was born in Pleasant Dale, WV in 1876; he became a railroader in 1892 as a yard clerk for the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad in Turner, PA. In August 1898 he hired on with the Lehigh Valley Railroad as a stenographer to the Superintendent of the Mahanoy and Hazleton Division in Hazleton, PA. In 1904 he transferred to a clerical position in the General Manager's office in Bethlehem, PA, and by 1917 was a division superintendent himself. From 1931 to 1941 he was general manager of the railroad, responsible for day-to-day operations of the sprawling LV system. He retired with some fanfare in March 1946, and was 80 years old when he died on March 16, 1956.