Chutes_Loading_the_Canal_Boats_on_the_Lehigh_Canal.jpg
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English:
Down Among the Coal Mines -- Chutes Loading the Canal-Boats on the
Lehigh Canal
, a wood engraving published in
Harper's Weekly
, February 1873.
Anthracite
Coal was loaded at the foot of Mount Pisgah from above historic
Mauch Chunk
(present-day
Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania
). At the top of the image the
visible railway 'Wye'
is the cross-over between the
gravity railroad
down track and the
cable railroad
and
inclined plane
up railway of the
Summit Hill and Mauch Chunk Railroad
(
aka: 'Mauch Chunk Switchback Railway'
; the second operating railway in the country. The railway is considered the first
roller coaster
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.
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| Date | 30 July 2008 (original upload date) | ||||||||||||
| Source | Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by Sreejithk2000 using CommonsHelper . | ||||||||||||
| Author | The original uploader was Hugh Manatee at English Wikipedia . |
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- 2008-07-30 16:13 Hugh Manatee 857×649× (147993 bytes) ''Down Among the Coal Mines -- Chutes Loading the Canal-Boats on the Lehigh Canal'', a wood engraving published in ''Harper's Weekly'', February 1873.