The Lehigh Tunnel is a pair of road tunnels that carries the Pennsylvania Turnpike Northeast Extension (Interstate 476) under Blue Mountain north from...
7 KB (597 words) - 00:48, 18 July 2024
Railroad Tunnel, 135 feet (41 m), Carbon County (abandoned) Carr's Tunnel Pennsylvania Railroad Greensburg, Pennsylvania Catasauqua Tunnel, Lehigh and New...
27 KB (1,798 words) - 12:40, 15 April 2024
Emmaus and Allentown, Pennsylvania Lehigh Tunnel, a tunnel on the Northeast Extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike Lehigh Valley (disambiguation), a major...
2 KB (278 words) - 21:09, 19 March 2024
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...
73 KB (7,001 words) - 12:46, 22 August 2024
additional section was added in the 1960s carrying two additional lanes. Lehigh Tunnel, on the Pennsylvania Turnpike Northeast Extension, also cuts through...
3 KB (174 words) - 22:51, 30 July 2024
PTC considered bypassing the Lehigh Tunnel on the Northeast Extension before ultimately deciding on twinning the tunnel. Cost for the bypass and unnecessary...
16 KB (1,726 words) - 02:30, 20 August 2024
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...
5 KB (469 words) - 08:37, 13 March 2021
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...
107 KB (9,365 words) - 21:36, 22 August 2024
The Lehigh Valley Railroad (reporting mark LV) was a railroad in the Northeastern United States built predominantly to haul anthracite coal from the Coal...
71 KB (8,974 words) - 01:03, 30 August 2024
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...
10 KB (920 words) - 02:22, 12 November 2023
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...
20 KB (1,640 words) - 06:01, 19 June 2024
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...
2 KB (335 words) - 14:58, 2 August 2024
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...
15 KB (1,774 words) - 05:46, 11 January 2024
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...
36 KB (3,807 words) - 05:42, 28 May 2024
northwest-southeast alignment through Washington Township, entering the Lehigh Tunnel near the north edge of the township. However, the nearest interchange...
11 KB (864 words) - 14:28, 12 May 2024
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...
22 KB (2,004 words) - 11:10, 8 September 2024
anthracite shipped by the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company from its Lansford and Coaldale breakers in the Panther Creek Valley. The tunnel allowed retirement...
41 KB (3,457 words) - 01:34, 16 April 2024
Allentown, Pennsylvania (redirect from Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania)
Dutch: Allenschteddel, Allenschtadt, or Ellsdaun) is the county seat of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is the third-most populous city...
145 KB (13,671 words) - 20:41, 3 September 2024
northwest-southeast alignment through East Penn Township, entering the Lehigh Tunnel near the south edge of the township. However, the nearest interchange...
13 KB (991 words) - 19:18, 11 May 2024
Easton and Amboy Railroad (redirect from Perth Amboy Branch (Lehigh Valley Railroad))
financial difficulties delayed the crucial tunnel through the Musconetcong Mountains at Pattenburg. The Lehigh Valley Railroad then stepped in, purchasing...
4 KB (428 words) - 22:10, 1 June 2024
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...
10 KB (1,191 words) - 20:21, 30 November 2023
Lehigh and Mahanoy Railroad, originally the Quakake Railroad (pronounced quake-ache), was a rail line connecting Black Creek Junction in the Lehigh Valley...
7 KB (839 words) - 21:48, 17 October 2023
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...
115 KB (11,126 words) - 18:38, 26 August 2024
Canal in Leesport Lehigh Canal, Allentown to Hopeville section, Lehigh River near Bethlehem Lehigh Canal, Carbon County section along Lehigh River, Weissport...
23 KB (2,529 words) - 15:45, 27 June 2024
Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company was a mining and transportation company headquartered in Mauch Chunk, now known as Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania. The company...
55 KB (7,660 words) - 21:14, 28 August 2024
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...
30 KB (3,577 words) - 16:21, 21 July 2024
The Lehigh Line is a railroad line in Central New Jersey, Northeastern Pennsylvania, and the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania. It is owned...
88 KB (11,524 words) - 15:28, 18 July 2024
National Docks Secondary (redirect from Waldo Tunnel (Jersey City))
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...
21 KB (1,925 words) - 07:35, 1 July 2024
Union Canal (Pennsylvania) (redirect from Union Canal Tunnel)
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...
33 KB (3,623 words) - 04:54, 2 October 2023
Gateway Program (Northeast Corridor) (redirect from Gateway Tunnel)
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...
184 KB (16,131 words) - 09:47, 26 August 2024