File:Lehigh and Susquehanna R.R. cut, Solomon's Gap, by M. A. Kleckner.png
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- The southern end of the cutting lets out into a switching yard in Mountain Top, Pennsylvania (formerly Penobscot, PA after the Penobscot Mountain peak towering above). The inclined railroad and cutting were made by the Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad (LH&S), a subsidiary of the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company built in 1837-1843 to connect the Pennsylvania Canal system (i.e. the Susquehanna River to the extended Lehigh Canal at White Haven, Pennsylvania.
- The mainline right of way is part of a direct route from New York City and Philadelphia to the Great Lakes at Buffalo, NY via Sayre, PA.
- Subsequently, in the 1870s the LH&S leased all of it's rail lines to the Central Railroad of New Jersey but retained ownership as a holding company and landlord. The line is now operated by the Reading Blue Mountain and Northern (RBMN) with the Norfolk Southern Railway and the Canadian Pacific (CPR, Delaware and Hudson Division) having trackage rights.
- Image title is likely a misnomer, the gap is created by Solomon Creek, with no apostrophe per the USGS 1892 survey published as the Wilkes-Barre Quadrangle.
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Lehigh and Susquehanna R.R. cut, Solomon's Gap.
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Kleckner, M. A. -- Photographer |
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Lehigh and Susquehanna R.R. cut, Solomon's Gap. |
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Coverage: 1868?-1885?. Source Imprint: 1868?-1885?. Digital item published 6-14-2006; updated 2-13-2009. |
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albumen print medium QS:P186,Q580807 |
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institution QS:P195,Q219555 |
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Stephen A. Schwarzman Building / Photography Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs |
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Original source: Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views. / United States. / States / Pennsylvania. / Views on the line of the Lehigh Valley R.R. / M. A. Kleckner. (Approx. 72,000 stereoscopic views : 10 x 18 cm. or smaller.) digital record
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