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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…

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…

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

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

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KernsDamPIC.jpg
I don't think that this is Kern's Dam on Trout Creek, but that's a good enough guess for now until I figure it out.

CanalPIC.jpg
I think that this is looking south along the canal, below Walnutport.

CanalWoodenBridgePIC.jpg
Looking north. To the left of this bridge over the canal was the bridge over the Lehigh River that connected Slatington and Walnutport.

CanalWoodenBridge2PIC.jpg
This photo is taken a bit further south of the bridge.
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