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This is a view of the houses that lined the west side of Willow Avenue in 2011. Compare to the earlier postcard image of the same scene from 1910.

Passenger station and freight depot for the Lehigh Valley Railroad. The railroad reached Slatington in 1856, and that was when the first depot was constructed.

A Lehigh Valley freight heads south on the Jersey Central tracks in the fall of 1968. In the background, you can see the old Lehigh and New England bridge being dismantled.

Jersey Central tracks through the snow on the right side of the photo (east bank of the river)

Dismantling of the old Lehigh and New England Railroad bridge has not yet begun in the background. You can also see that the Lehigh Valley Railroad has been reduced to a single track at this point in time. Great shot of the Gap.

Snow birds lead a consist south through Lehigh Gap on the former rails of the Central of New Jersey.