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Identifier: guidebookofcentr00harp (find matches)
Title: Guide-book of the Central railroad of New Jersey, and its connections through the coal-fields of Pennsylvania
Year: 1864 (1860s)
Authors: Harper, firm, publishers, New York. (1864. Harper & brothers) (from old catalog)
Subjects: Central Railroad of New Jersey
Publisher: New York : Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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the Penn Haven and White HavenRailway for Mauch Chunk. Our course lies along theLehigh River all the way, and runs through a mountain-ous country, which affords scenery which, in picturesqueeffect, is without a rival. This is particularly true ofthat portion of the road which lies just above MauchChunk. Just below White Haven we cross the Lehigh,and keep along its left bank until wre reach a point inid-wTay between Rockport and Penn Haven, where we re-cross the stream. Rockport is on the opposite bank from the railroad,thirteen miles above Mauch Chunk. The place hasgrown up in connection with the operations of the BuckMountain Coal Company, whose mines are about fourmiles from the village, at a place called Clifton. Rock-port is merely the shipping-point for these mines. Thefine mountain air and the picturesque scenery, added tothe facility of communication established by the PennHaven Railroad, wTill make it a delightful summer resort.Eight miles above Mauch Chunk is the village of -
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CENTRAL RAILROAD OF NEW JERSEY. 91 Penn Haven, situated at the junction of QuakakeCreek with the Lehigh River. From 1838 to 1852 theHazleton Railroad Company used the Beaver MeadowRailroad from Hazle Creek to Penn Haven. After thefreshet of 1850 they built a separate road to the top ofthe mountain at Penn Haven, from which the coal carsare let down by inclined planes on the other side, 430feet high and 1200 feet long, to the Lehigh, where thecoal is transferred to boats. The loaded cars, descend-ing, draw up the empty cars. In 1859 another inclinedplane was constructed for the purpose of letting downcars to a level with the Beaver Meadow Railroad, overwhich they are conveyed to the Lehigh Valley Road.The scenery from the head of these planes is magnificent. From Penn Haven let the reader, before proceeding toMauch Chank, imagine himself back at White Haven;for, besides the Penn Haven and White Haven Railroad,there is another route, more indirect, but affording feat-ures so characteris

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