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March 1976, led by LV 403 (RS 11) and her brothers, a freight heads towards Lehigh Gap (west) on former CNJ tracks

This was part of a small booklet of photos, Souvenir of Slatington Penna. and Vicinity, sold by Jones Bros & Miller. These photos also appeared as regular, individual postcards.

Looking south through the gap about 1905, before the Lehigh and New England Railroad bridge was built.

Note the width of the canal at this point.

View looking south before the construction of the LNE R.R. bridge.

The Lehigh Gap dam, a wooden crib dam, on the Lehigh River south of the Blue Mountain also served at the entry point for the Walnutport stretch of the Lehigh Canal. The dam allowed for slack water navigation of canal boats from the Palmerton side of…

View of Lehigh Gap from the north side of the gap looking south, through the gap. The canal's aqueduct over Aquashicola Creek in visible.

The Lehigh canal is to the right, the dam on the river is to the left and in the distance you can see the chain bridge across the river.

This view looks south towards Lehigh Gap from Palmerton. This is a three-panel postcard.