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1-2. Track gauge. 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1⁄2 in) standard gauge. Operating speed. 50 miles per hour (80.5 km/h) [1] The Lehigh Line is a railroad line in Central New Jersey, Northeastern Pennsylvania, and the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania. It is owned and operated by the Norfolk Southern Railway.
The line consists of four railroad segments: Greenville District − Greenville to Inman Yard, Greenville District − C&G Junction to Piedmont, Greenville District − Anderson to Walhalla, and Greenville District − Lula to Center. The line is part of the ex-Southern Main Line. Columbia District. Charlotte, North Carolina.
UTC−4 (EDT) Congressional district. 7th. Website. www.lehighcounty.org. Lehigh County (Pennsylvania Dutch: Lechaa Kaundi) is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the county's population was 374,557. [1] Its county seat is Allentown, the state's third-largest city after Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.
The Lehigh Valley (/ ˈ l iː h aɪ /) is a geographic and metropolitan region formed by the Lehigh River in Lehigh and Northampton counties in eastern Pennsylvania.It is a component valley of the Great Appalachian Valley bounded to its north by Blue Mountain, to its south by South Mountain, to its west by Lebanon Valley, and to its east by the Delaware River and Warren County, New Jersey. [1]
Coopersburg, Pennsylvania. Coopersburg is a borough in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population of Coopersburg was 2,447 as of the 2020 census. It is a suburb of Allentown and is located 7 miles (11 km) miles southeast of Allentown, 40 miles (64 km) north of Philadelphia, and 76 miles (122 km) west of New York City.
4 ft 8 + 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge. The Lackawanna & Wyoming Valley Railroad, more commonly known as the Laurel Line, was a Pennsylvania third rail electric interurban streetcar line which operated commuter train service from 1903 to 1952, and freight service until 1976. Its main line ran from Scranton to Wilkes-Barre.
Bethlehem Pike is a historic 42.21 mi (67.93 km) long road in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania that connects Philadelphia and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.It began as a Native American path called the Minsi Trail which developed into a colonial highway called the King's Road in the 1760s.
The Upper Lehigh Canal, designed by Canvass White, was built from 1837 to 1843 as authorized by the 1837 revision of the Main Line of Public Works. The upper Lehigh was a turbulent river with steep sides; a large portion was in a ravine, the Lehigh Gorge. The upper canal rose over 600 feet (183 m) in elevation to the Mauch Chunk slack-water pool.