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The Lehigh Line is a railroad line in central New Jersey and northeastern Pennsylvania. It is owned and operated by the Norfolk Southern Railway. The line runs west from the vicinity of the Port of New York and New Jersey (via Conrail's Lehigh Line to the Susquehanna River valley at the south end of the Wyoming Valley Coal Region. Administratively it is part of Norfolk Southern's Harrisburg Division and is also part of the Crescent Corridor. As of 2016 the line is freight-only, although there are perennial proposals to restore passenger service over all or part of the line.
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- 1 2 "Brandywine Valley Railroad Acquires Additional Tracks". Archived from the original on July 28, 2004. Retrieved 2007-05-13.
- ↑ "Morristown & Erie Railway, Inc.--Modified Rail Certificate". Archived from the original on 2007-09-29. Retrieved 2007-05-13.
- ↑ Surface Transportation Board, East Penn Railways, Inc.—Acquisition and Operation Exemption—Reading Company, May 6, 2005: "East Penn states that, pursuant to an agreement with ISG, it is also acquiring all of ISG's rights to operate the subject line. East Penn notes that ISG and its predecessors previously leased and operated the subject line per agreement with Reading." (footnote 1)
- ↑ https://www.progressiverailroading.com/m_a/news/Cleveland-Cliffs-to-acquire-six-short-lines--62043
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