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  • Collection: Lehigh Gap

LNE2.jpg
A Lehigh and New England train with a long load of coal hopper cars crosses the bridge at Lehigh Gap in 1961.

LNE 400 Lehigh Gap web.jpg
The Lehigh Gap bridge soared over 100 feet above the Lehigh River, crossing Pennsylvania Route No. 248 (Lehigh Drive), the CNJ mainline, the Lehigh River and canal, and the LV mainline. In this view taken from the vicinity of CNJ milepost No. 107…

Gap Bridge from West Abutment web.jpg
MP 32.3 The L&NE's riveted, skew, deck, truss bridge across the Lehigh River at Lehigh Gap was completed in July 1912. It was part of a project called the Tamaqua Extension whereby the mainline at Danielsville was extended 31.85 miles westward across…

Chainbridgesite.jpg
Looking from the "new" highway bridge south towards the site of the former chain bridge. Tracks are those of the New Jersey Central.

StylizedGapBridge.jpg
A stylized view of the highway bridge, opened 1933, below Lehigh Gap, looking west.

Watercolor.jpg
Watercolor of the chain bridge at Lehigh Gap. There is considerable artistic license at work with this painting from the nineteenth century.

GapBoat.jpg
An old Lehigh canal boat on the canal in Lehigh Gap.

GapCanal.jpg
Scene of the Lehigh Canal in Lehigh Gap with Marshal Hill in the background.
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