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With nearly a thousand visitors in Sayre, including about 100 members of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Surgical Corps here for ...
A program on railroad history will be presented at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Sayre Historical Society. The program, titled “Along the Line of the Lehigh Valley Railroad from New York to Niagara ...
Since 1858, the Sayre Mansion has towered over Southside Bethlehem to the west from its perch atop a hill just off Route 378. In those 150-plus years, the former home of Lehigh Valley Railroad ...
The history of the Lehigh Valley Railroad will take center stage from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the Sayre Historical Society’s annual Caboose Day.
Allentown, PA (18103) Today. Mostly sunny and a bit warmer, but with still comfortable ... built by chief engineer of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Robert Sayre in 1858.
It’s fairly well known that a golden spike was driven to unite the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads at Promontory Point, Utah Territory, on May 10, 1869. The occasion marked the co… ...
On the last day of the year 1865, Robert H. Sayre, self-taught engineer, creator of Bethlehem Iron Company (later Bethlehem Steel), and man of all work to Lehigh Valley Railroad ...
On the south side of Bethlehem, Pa., the train whistle blows in the middle of the night. I turn over and go back to sleep. An hour or so later, another train whistle blows. The ghostly sound is not… ...