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    The Lehigh Tunnel is a pair of road tunnels that carries the Pennsylvania Turnpike Northeast Extension (Interstate 476) under Blue Mountain north from...
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  • Railroad Tunnel, 135 feet (41 m), Carbon County (abandoned) Carr's Tunnel Pennsylvania Railroad Greensburg, Pennsylvania Catasauqua Tunnel, Lehigh and New...
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  • Emmaus and Allentown, Pennsylvania Lehigh Tunnel, a tunnel on the Northeast Extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike Lehigh Valley (disambiguation), a major...
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    Interstate 476 (category Transportation in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania)
    the Lehigh Tunnel and enters Carbon County in the Pocono Mountains region. Here, I-476 crosses over the Lehigh River and Norfolk Southern's Lehigh Line...
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    additional section was added in the 1960s carrying two additional lanes. Lehigh Tunnel, on the Pennsylvania Turnpike Northeast Extension, also cuts through...
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  • PTC considered bypassing the Lehigh Tunnel on the Northeast Extension before ultimately deciding on twinning the tunnel. Cost for the bypass and unnecessary...
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    Tunnel is an abandoned railroad tunnel near Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania. Built by the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company, it carried part of the Lehigh and...
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    500°W / 40.700; -75.500 The Lehigh Valley (/ˈliːhaɪ/) is a geographic and metropolitan region formed by the Lehigh River in Lehigh and Northampton counties...
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  • The Lehigh Valley Railroad (reporting mark LV) was a railroad in the Northeastern United States built predominantly to haul anthracite coal from the Coal...
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    Blue Mountain (Pennsylvania) (category Mountains of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania)
    same mountain just to the west, with the two tunnel portals only 0.2 miles (0.32 km) apart. The Lehigh Tunnel carries the turnpike's north–south Northeast...
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    due to the restrictions in place on the Lehigh Tunnel. PA 33 provides a freeway connection between the Lehigh Valley and Pocono Mountains regions of Pennsylvania...
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  • Nesquehoning, Pennsylvania. The tunnel was significant for cutting nearly 15 difficult mountainous miles (24 km) off the trip to the Lehigh Canal terminal or, by...
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  • The Lehigh and New England Railroad (reporting mark LNE) was a Class I railroad located in Northeastern United States that acted as a bridge line. It was...
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    for Interstate 476 since many placarded trucks are not allowed in the Lehigh Tunnel and as a route of choice for access to the region's operating coal mines...
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    northwest-southeast alignment through Washington Township, entering the Lehigh Tunnel near the north edge of the township. However, the nearest interchange...
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    terminating at the Holland Tunnel entrance to Lower Manhattan in New York City. Major metropolitan areas along I-78 include the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania...
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    anthracite shipped by the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company from its Lansford and Coaldale breakers in the Panther Creek Valley. The tunnel allowed retirement...
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    Dutch: Allenschteddel, Allenschtadt, or Ellsdaun) is the county seat of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is the third-most populous city...
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    northwest-southeast alignment through East Penn Township, entering the Lehigh Tunnel near the south edge of the township. However, the nearest interchange...
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    financial difficulties delayed the crucial tunnel through the Musconetcong Mountains at Pattenburg. The Lehigh Valley Railroad then stepped in, purchasing...
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  • Scarlift report. The tunnel is a major contributor of acid mine drainage to the watershed of the Lehigh River. The Quakake Tunnel is located in Packer...
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    Lehigh and Mahanoy Railroad, originally the Quakake Railroad (pronounced quake-ache), was a rail line connecting Black Creek Junction in the Lehigh Valley...
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    The Starrett–Lehigh Building is a 19-story building at 601 West 26th Street, occupying the full block between Eleventh Avenue, 26th Street, Twelfth Avenue...
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    Canal in Leesport Lehigh Canal, Allentown to Hopeville section, Lehigh River near Bethlehem Lehigh Canal, Carbon County section along Lehigh River, Weissport...
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    Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company was a mining and transportation company headquartered in Mauch Chunk, now known as Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania. The company...
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    The Lehigh Canal is a navigable canal that begins at the mouth of Nesquehoning Creek on the Lehigh River in the Lehigh Valley and Northeastern regions...
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    The Lehigh Line is a railroad line in Central New Jersey, Northeastern Pennsylvania, and the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania. It is owned...
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    and through a short tunnel crossing beneath the PATH rapid transit system. At its southern end trains cross Newark Bay over the Lehigh Valley Railroad Bridge...
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    the Union Canal Tunnel, a hand-built engineering marvel that is the oldest existing transportation tunnel in the United States. The tunnel is a National...
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    Meadowlands, a new set of tunnels under Bergen Hill (Hudson Palisades) and the Hudson River, rehabilitate the existing 1910 tunnel, and construct a new terminal...
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