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Keeping them occupied, however, shouldn’t cost an arm and a leg. From summer concerts to movies in the park, here is a list ...
Will they hold the horn? Some Lehigh Valley residents seek less disruption, more 'quiet zones' at railroad crossings ...
In honor of National Trail Day, we asked Metrotrails founder Mike Helbing to tell us some of his favorite day hikes in and around the Lehigh Valley.
The National Museum of Industrial History is partnering with the Reading & Northern Railroad to host a daylong rare mileage ...
The Starrett-Lehigh Building, shown here around 1932, was built atop an active freight yard of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, which was served by car floats docking at Pier 66 across 12th Avenue.
If the founder of the Lehigh Valley Railroad had traveled the country over in search of a route that combined every characteristic of the picturesque he could not possibly have made a more ...
The year was 1883 and Robert Sayre needed a job. The longtime Lehigh Valley Railroad executive had been unceremoniously dismissed from his post by the sons of company founder Asa ...
A program on railroad history will be presented at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Sayre Historical Society. The program, titled “Along the Line of the Lehigh Valley Railroad from New York to Niagara ...
#611, the last surviving diesel-electric locomotive from the Lehigh and New England Railroad, will be chugging along again someday, thanks to the work of local preservationists.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad was among several passenger rail services that operated in the region into the 1950s.
As the Lehigh Valley slowly downsized, the time came when they could not afford agents, stationmasters, section crews or any of the other personnel generally associated with a working railroad.
Funded by the PA Department of Environmental Resources and PennDOT, the project includes the construction of a multi-purpose trail on the alignment of the former Lehigh Valley Railroad.