The Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway in Jim Thorpe celebrated its 20th anniversary on Memorial Day weekend. The LGSR story began ...

Train crossings have always been dangerous. Each year, someone commits suicide by train, or tries to race across the tracks before the train gets there — sometimes it is a train versus car, or a ...

Meanwhile, only 17 miles to the south, a historic former Lehigh Valley Railroad engine house has ... Other known engine houses in Hazleton, Delano, Lehighton, Easton and Wilkes-Barre have been ...

In the words of Lehigh Valley Railroad historian Robert F ... The John Wilkes, since 1958 reduced to running from New York to Lehighton, was scheduled for its last run on February 3rd. It arrived ...

It was a muggy morning in May and The Black Diamond Express, the Lehigh Valley ... Township railroad memorabilia collector, estimated it could make it from Allentown to Lehighton in 18 minutes.

The Lehigh Valley Railroad operated a number of passenger trains in the post-World War II era including The Star, the Major, the Maple Leaf, The Black Diamond, The Lehighton Express, The Asa ...

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