The Allentown Railroad was a railway company in the United States. It was incorporated in 1853 with the original intention to connect the Central Railroad...
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The Allentown and Auburn Railroad (reporting mark ALLN) is a short-line railroad located in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania that operates as both a freight...
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Allentown (Pennsylvania Dutch: Allenschteddel, Allenschtadt, or Ellsdaun) is the county seat of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is the...
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Allentown station could refer to two stations in Allentown, Pennsylvania: Allentown station (Central Railroad of New Jersey) Allentown station (Lehigh...
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Allentown was a train station in Allentown, Pennsylvania. It was opened by the Lehigh Valley Railroad in 1890 and closed in 1961. The building was demolished...
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Reading Line at Topton to Kutztown. The line was built in 1870 by the Allentown Railroad and was part of the Reading Company system until 1976. The Kutztown...
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Allentown station is a defunct train station in Allentown, Pennsylvania. It was constructed by the Central Railroad of New Jersey (CNJ) and Reading Railroad...
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(AVR) Allentown and Auburn Railroad (ALLN) BD Highspire Holdings (BDHH) Belvidere and Delaware River Railway (BDRV) Brandywine Valley Railroad (BVRY)...
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Lehigh Valley (redirect from Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton metropolitan area)
Valley Railroad's Lehigh Line and Reading Railroad's Reading Line. Norfolk Southern Railway has major classification rail yards in both Allentown and Bethlehem...
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Lehigh Valley Railroad's original and primary route between Easton and Allentown was built in 1855. The line later expanded past Allentown to Lehigh Valley...
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Lehigh Line (Norfolk Southern) (redirect from Main line (Lehigh Valley Railroad))
once the main line of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. The first segment, which runs between Easton and Allentown, opened in September 1855. Later extensions...
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1855 the Allentown Railroad was graded through Breinigsville, but the tracks were never laid. In the 1860s, the Catasauqua and Fogelsville Railroad used the...
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Northern Railroad 4-6-2 № 425 and ex-Reading Company T-1 4-8-4 № 2102. The BM&R also began operating three more state-owned lines: the Allentown branch...
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made up the name "Allentown" in 1873 in order to appease the railroad shipping clerk who required each cattle stop to be named. Allentown was a station of...
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Valley Railroad (AVR) Allentown and Auburn Railroad (ALLN) Alton and Southern Railway (ALS) AN Railway (AN) Angelina and Neches River Railroad (ANR) Ann...
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Central Railroad of New Jersey, also known as the Jersey Central, Jersey Central Lines or New Jersey Central (reporting mark CNJ), was a Class I railroad with...
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joint ventures including the St Anthony Falls Water Power Company, Allentown Railroad Company and the Dauphin and Susquehanna Coal Company. In 1853 Sanford...
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Randolph L., ed. (1972). History of Lehigh and New England Railroad Company. Allentown, Pennsylvania: Lehigh Valley Chapter, National Railway Historical...
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Allentown, Pennsylvania, established in 1762, the third-largest city in Pennsylvania and largest city in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania...
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The Hotel Sterling is an historic hotel, which is located in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Built between 1889 and 1890, it is a three-story rectangular brick...
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by its anthracite coal, iron ore, steel, railroad, and other manufacturing and mining industries. Allentown's influential role in support of the American...
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Pennsylvania Railroad is a defunct railroad which operated in the state of Pennsylvania. It opened a line between Reading, Pennsylvania, and Allentown, Pennsylvania...
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Bethlehem Line (redirect from Allentown Line)
Terminal in Philadelphia. Between 1978 and 1979, SEPTA extended service to Allentown. Service ended altogether in 1981 as SEPTA eliminated its former Reading...
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subsidiaries: R. J. Corman Railroad/Allentown Lines (Pennsylvania) R. J. Corman Railroad/Bardstown Line (Kentucky) R. J. Corman Railroad/Central Kentucky Lines...
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formerly the main line of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, runs through Easton on its way to Bethlehem and Allentown heading west across the Delaware River to...
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any metropolitan or micropolitan area. Allentown was named in 1891 when the Macon, Dublin & Savannah Railroad was extended to that point. John Allen,...
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The Central Railroad of New Jersey Freight Station in Scranton, Pennsylvania was the western terminus of the Central Railroad of New Jersey line, 192...
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at Trexlertown, and ran as far as Breinigsville on the unfinished Allentown Railroad right-of-way. There it diverged, and continued to Farmington, the...
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it had a population of 9,359. The borough is 15 miles (24 km) south of Allentown and Bethlehem and 40 miles (64 km) north of Philadelphia, making Quakertown...
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Herman Haupt (category American railroad pioneers)
the Norristown and Allentown Railroad and of the Norristown & Valley Railroad, 15 years later merged into the Chester Valley Railroad. At 19, he was appointed...
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