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Lehigh Gap Westbound Passenger Train

Westbound ex Blue Comet locomotive, CNJ No. 831, with five passenger cars in tow has rounded the first curve west of Lehigh Gap, PA, and is on a tangent into Palmerton. - southeast view, Circa 1950 - photographer unknown

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…

CNJ Train Reaching Lehigh Gap

MP 106.82 This odd assortment of motive power on this westbound CNJ freight has passed under the Pennsylvania Route No. 813 river bridge (CNJ physical characteristics literature of the 1930s calls this area of right-of-way Toll Bridge) and is…

Lehigh Gap Passenger Train

Eastbound CNJ No. 813 with five cars making up Train No. 316 has just ducked under the L&NE bridge and is now passing CNJ milepost 107, which informs the engineer that they are 107 miles west of Jersey City. All CNJ mainline mile markers displayed…

Lehigh Gap Circa 1929

MP 107.08 In this photograph taken from the L&NE Lehigh Gap Bridge of an eastbound CNJ Mikado powered (CNJ No. 865) coal train, the farthest cars are over Aquashicola Creek bridge while the mid section of the train is alongside LC&N Lock No. 18. A…

LNE Gap Bridge 1945

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…

LNE Gap Bridge from West

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…

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