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  • Collection: Vintage Photographs

Berksie.jpg
This was a Reading gas electric car (#4067) that ran from the Slatington depot on the Lehgh Valley's branch line out to Emerald, and then continued on the Reading Line out past Best station. The train at one time brought students in to school in the…

CitizensBank.jpg
Pictured here with the time and temperature sign on the corner of Second and Main Streets (the lower bank).

Slatingtonaerial.jpg
Aerial view of upper Main Street at the time of the crane accident in July 1986. Main Street makes the sharp bend where the crane proceeded to go straight into Trout Creek manor (site of where the Presbyterian Church used to stand). 2nd street is…

832 LV 497 1932 web.jpg
Class N-5 engine leading a westbound freight through Slatington

LVloco.jpg
On the mainline, heading north (west) to Mauch Chunk.

TroutCreekGlass100.jpg
The newspaper building is on the left; visible is the small miniature house and pond/garden that used to be there; most likely washed away in 1972.

BridgeLehighPIC.jpg
If you look closely, you can see the men peering out through the damaged opening.

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GapDamPIC.jpg
The timber crib dam south of Lehigh Gap that supported navigation on the Lehigh canal
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