MP 17.0
A speed restriction was in effect for the track entering Bethlehem city limits. The sign at
the right states: Reduce Speed to 30 Miles Per Hour. This scene is
slightly north of the first southward curve in northwest Bethlehem.
- westward view, circa 1960 - Charles Houser
Illick's Mill was northwest of downtown Bethlehem.
-southward view, circa 1960 - Charles Houser
MP 18.8
The freight house at Bethlehem sat under the Main Street access ramp to the overhead
Hill to Hill highway bridge, which connected Bethlehem to South
Bethlehem (on the opposite bank of the Lehigh River in Northampton County). One of the ramp's
supporting piers was inside the freight house and protruded through the roof!
- circa 1961 - photographer unknown
L&NE No. 401 rests alongside the Bethlehem
freight house, its days struggling up the grade to Summit over. Now forlorn
with fires forever dropped and headlight lens broken, it awaits
transportation to the scrapper's torch at Bethlehem Steel Company.
- February 1949 - photographer unknown
MP 19.1
The L&NE interchange yard with the CNJ
was a short distance west of the freight house at a location the CNJ
named JU Interlocking. - eastward view, circa 1961 -
photographer unknown