Gap Westbound Freight

Gap Westbound Freight

Westbound CNJ freight with No. 932 in charge steams past the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company's abandoned Lock No. 18 and its associated lock-tender's house. The L&NE Lehigh Gap bridge looms over the tracks in the distance. The faint easement line running above the train to the bridge is the L&NE's Palmerton Branch, which gradually descends into the Aquashicola Creek Valley to the L&NE's interchange yard with the Chestnut Ridge Railway at the East Palmerton plant of New Jersey Zinc (of Pennsylvania). This CNJ freight train is about to cross CNJ Bridge No. 107/53 over the mouth of Aquashicola Creek on the Lehigh River. - southeast view, Circa 1947 - Don Ball collection

Don Ball

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1947

Charles Evans

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