Central Railroad of New Jersey, CNJ, Lehigh & New England, L&NE, Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company, LC&N, Lehigh Navigation, Old Company's Lehigh, Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Coal Company
Black Diamonds to Tidewater
The Old Company's Lehigh™ and Central Railroad of New Jersey in the Anthracite Region

 

A Brief Historical Perspective
Central Railroad of New Jersey
Lehigh & New England Railroad
Lehigh & Hudson River Railway
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Black Diamonds to Tidewater ©2004
William T. Greenberg, Jr. and Robert F. Fischer
Background Music: "City of New Orleans" - Steve Goodman 1972
A westbound manifest of empty hopper cars returning to the mines thunders by a seemingly endless string of black diamonds on their eastward journey to tidewater. - Ox Bow Curve in the Lehigh Gorge - circa 1930