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U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt arriving at Allentown station in August 1905. The Lehigh Valley Railroad opened its original line between Allentown and Easton, Pennsylvania in 1855; the first passenger train ran between the two cities on June 11. [1] In 1890, the Lehigh Valley Railroad relocated its station to downtown Allentown, just off its ...
Allentown station is a defunct train station in Allentown, Pennsylvania. It was constructed by the Central Railroad of New Jersey (CNJ) and Reading Railroad in 1888 and 1889. For most of the late 19th and early 20th century, it provided passenger train service between Allentown and various U.S. Coast locations.
In 2010, a commissioned report studied the extension of passenger train service from Phillipsburg, New Jersey into Pennsylvania with stations in Easton, Bethlehem, and Allentown. The Lehigh Valley area has experienced considerable growth over the past several decades, and a large number of commuters use intercity bus service to commute to New ...
Lehigh-Pennsylvania Express 1916 — 1932 Phillipsburg, NJ — Easton, PA — Mount Carmel, PA — Sunbury, PA — Lock Haven, PA — Tyrone, PA — Altoona, PA via LV renamed Pittsburgh-Wilkes-Barre Express
An 1860 illustration of the Lehigh Valley Railroad's unusual double-decker bridge, which crosses the Delaware River in Easton An 1884 map of the Pennsylvania, Reading and Lehigh Valley Railroads Lehigh Valley Railroad's Barge 79, now a museum in South Brooklyn Map of Lehigh Valley Railroad's terminal at Jersey City Map of Lehigh Valley Railroad's Roselle and South Plainfield Railway A share of ...
Allentown and Auburn Railroad's 206 train, an EMC Winton-engined switcher used to pull tourist trains and the occasional freight train. The Allentown and Auburn Railroad dates back to 1853 when a charter was issued to the Dauphin and Susquehanna Coal Company and the Central Railroad of New Jersey for the Allentown Railroad, a railroad that was to run from Allentown west to the Philadelphia and ...
LVT's Allentown to Philadelphia division operating to 1951 is considered the last of the eastern U.S. single track, town street to side of road rural countryside hill and dale interurban trolleys in the United States along with the Hagerstown and Frederick and the West Penn Railways of Western Pennsylvania, although the Springfield-to-Media end ...
Amtrak (AMTK) (national passenger rail) CamTran (Johnstown mass transit agency operates Johnstown Inclined Plane) Colebrookdale Railroad (heritage railroad) Delaware Lackawanna RailRoad; East Broad Top Railroad and Coal Company; Fayette Central Railroad (tourist trains operating over Southwest Pennsylvania Railroad trackage)