In reference to the letter to editor (“Lehigh Valley needs light rail system”), the Lehigh Valley area had a light rail system. It was the trolley system known as the Lehigh Valley Transit Co. Over ...

Hazle Street railroad crossing in Wilkes-Barre. Sanborn Fire Insurance Map 1910, Penn State University Library A Lehigh Valley train consisting of 15 empty coal gondolas being moved in the train yard ...

A streetcar named expire: the last ride of the Liberty Bell line used to be the transportation of choice before cars were common all over town. but when the end came for one popular trolley line in ...

PERKASIE — The Perkasie Historical Society Museum has been named to the National Register of Historic Places. Located at 513 W. Walnut S., the former Lehigh Valley Transit Trolley station was one of ...

According to one source this was a headline found in newspapers and magazines across the country in the 1950s when one by one cities and towns were abandoning streetcars, aka trolleys, for freeways, ...