File:Chutes Loading the Canal Boats on the Lehigh Canal.jpg
Summary
Down Among the Coal Mines -- Chutes Loading the Canal-Boats on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehigh_Canal" class="extiw" title="w:Lehigh Canal">Lehigh Canal</a>, a wood engraving published in Harper's Weekly, February 1873. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthracite" class="extiw" title="w:Anthracite">Anthracite</a> Coal was loaded at the foot of Mount Pisgah from above historic <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauch_Chunk" class="extiw" title="w:Mauch Chunk">Mauch Chunk</a> (present-day <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Thorpe,_Pennsylvania" class="extiw" title="w:Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania">Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania</a>). At the top of the image the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wye_(Rail)" class="extiw" title="w:wye (Rail)">visible railway 'Wye'</a> is the cross-over between the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/gravity_railroad" class="extiw" title="w:gravity railroad">gravity railroad</a> down track and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cable_railroad" class="extiw" title="w:cable railroad">cable railroad</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/inclined_plane" class="extiw" title="w:inclined plane">inclined plane</a> up railway of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summit_Hill_and_Mauch_Chunk_Railroad" class="extiw" title="w:Summit Hill and Mauch Chunk Railroad">Summit Hill and Mauch Chunk Railroad</a> (aka: 'Mauch Chunk Switchback Railway'; the second operating railway in the country. The railway is considered the first <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/roller_coaster" class="extiw" title="w:roller coaster">roller coaster</a> in the world and did a tourist trade as early as 1827; and ended it's life serving such tourists between the 1870s and 1931.
- See also: <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Mauch_Chunk_Switchback_Railway" title="Category:Mauch Chunk Switchback Railway">category: Mauch Chunk Switchback Railway</a>
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| current | 04:51, 5 January 2017 | | 857 × 649 (145 KB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | <i>Down Among the Coal Mines -- Chutes Loading the Canal-Boats on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehigh_Canal" class="extiw" title="w:Lehigh Canal">Lehigh Canal</a></i>, a wood engraving published in <i>Harper's Weekly</i>, February 1873. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthracite" class="extiw" title="w:Anthracite">Anthracite</a> Coal was loaded at the foot of Mount Pisgah from above historic <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauch_Chunk" class="extiw" title="w:Mauch Chunk">Mauch Chunk</a> (present-day <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Thorpe,_Pennsylvania" class="extiw" title="w:Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania">Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania</a>). At the top of the image the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wye_(Rail)" class="extiw" title="w:wye (Rail)">visible railway 'Wye'</a> is the cross-over between the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/gravity_railroad" class="extiw" title="w:gravity railroad">gravity railroad</a> down track and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cable_railroad" class="extiw" title="w:cable railroad">cable railroad</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/inclined_plane" class="extiw" title="w:inclined plane">inclined plane</a> up railway of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summit_Hill_and_Mauch_Chunk_Railroad" class="extiw" title="w:Summit Hill and Mauch Chunk Railroad">Summit Hill and Mauch Chunk Railroad</a> (<i>aka: 'Mauch Chunk Switchback Railway'</i>; the second operating railway in the country. The railway is considered the first <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/roller_coaster" class="extiw" title="w:roller coaster">roller coaster</a> in the world and did a tourist trade as early as 1827; and ended it's life serving such tourists between the 1870s and 1931. <ul><li> See also: <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Mauch_Chunk_Switchback_Railway" title="Category:Mauch Chunk Switchback Railway">category: Mauch Chunk Switchback Railway</a> </li></ul> |
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