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Lehigh Gorge State Park

This is the important northern entrance into the river cut gully or gap between highlands, and was an important barge loading transshipment point on the newly extended upper Lehigh Canal fed initially by a shortline railroad from the Mountain Top yard dating from the 1837 enabling legislation set up to join the Lehigh and Susquehanna Valleys via Mountain Top and the Ashley Planes incline railway.

Sharon Feingold

She can be heard daily on HGTV and on STYLE Network and is the station announcer for the ATL Skytrain and The Plane Train (since March 2012) at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, as well as the Incline Railway at Chattanooga, Tennessee's Lookout Mountain.


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Hetton colliery railway

From 1831, the Marquis of Londonderry had developed the Rainton and Seaham Railway, a similar rope-worked incline railway which ran from West Rainton to his newly developed docks at Seaham.