Lackawanna Cut Off at Delaware Water Gap, PA. – Historic Print
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Lackawanna Cut Off at Delaware Water Gap, PA. comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Lackawanna Cut Off at Delaware Water Gap, PA.
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The Lackawanna Railroad's line through the Delaware Water Gap is what sets this view apart from other scenes on the board: a rail cut hewn into the steep wooded slopes where the Delaware River breaks through Kittatinny Ridge. The Lackawanna built this route to carry coal and freight across northwestern New Jersey, and the gap was among the most dramatic stretches of track on the line. Engineers had to blast and cut through the rock to make room for the roadbed beside the river. Views like this one show how the railroad and the river shared a narrow corridor, a combination that drew both travelers and photographers to the Water Gap in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
| Original scan | 3,256 × 2,072 px · prints to 11 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | img030-B |
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