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The railroad of the Quakertown and Bethlehem Railroad Company, hereinafter called the carrier, is a single-track, standard-gage, steam railroad, located in southeastern Pennsylvania. The main line extends northeasterly from Quakertown to a point near Riegelsville, a distance of 14.659 miles.
East Penn Railroad's ALCO RS-1 57 and GE B23-7 3153 in Quakertown. ESPN operates 114 miles of track in eastern Pennsylvania and northern Delaware and 16 commercial locomotives. [6] The railroad operates multiple disconnected segments with locomotives assigned to each segment. Two or three lines have service daily. [2] They include the following ...
The Quakertown Passenger and Freight Station is a historic train station and freight depot located at Quakertown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.The two buildings were designed by Wilson Bros. & Company in 1889 and built by Cramp and Co. for the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad in 1902.
Quakertown is a borough in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States.As of 2020, it had a population of 9,359. [3] The borough is 15 miles (24 km) south of Allentown and Bethlehem and 40 miles (64 km) north of Philadelphia, making Quakertown a border town of both the Delaware Valley and Lehigh Valley metropolitan areas.
The Quakertown Historic District is a historic district which includes most of Quakertown, Pennsylvania. It encompasses, 386 acres and 2,197 contributing buildings. It encompasses, 386 acres and 2,197 contributing buildings.
The region includes Allentown, the third-most populous city in Pennsylvania, the neighboring eastern Pennsylvania cities of Bethlehem and Easton, and its more rural suburbs. The region was once a hub for American heavy manufacturing.
Map of the United States with Pennsylvania highlighted. There are 56 municipalities classified as cities in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. [1] Each city is further classified based on population, with Philadelphia being of the first class, Pittsburgh of the second class, Scranton of the second class A, and the remaining 53 cities being of the third class.
This is a list of towns and boroughs in Pennsylvania. There are currently 956 municipalities classified as boroughs and one classified as a town in Pennsylvania . Unlike other forms of municipalities in Pennsylvania, boroughs and towns are not classified according to population.