page_title: Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad
hierarchical_section_title: Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad
caption_attribution_description: English: Historic canals of Pennsylvania, including divisions of the 19th-century Pennsylvania Canal system plus navigable rivers, other canals, and four railroads that made the system more useful. Not all of the canals shown on the map existed at the same time.
context_page_description: The Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad is a defunct railroad which operated in the state of Pennsylvania during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The company was a subsidiary of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company, but for much of its lifetime leased by the Central Railroad of New Jersey. It was founded in 1837 to carry coal from the North Branch Division of the Pennsylvania Canal to the Lehigh Canal, but would later be extended to the Delaware River at Easton, Pennsylvania. It was conveyed to Conrail in 1976.
context_section_description: The Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad is a defunct railroad which operated in the state of Pennsylvania during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The company was a subsidiary of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company (LC&N), but for much of its lifetime leased by the Central Railroad of New Jersey. It was founded in 1837 to carry coal from the North Branch Division of the Pennsylvania Canal to the Lehigh Canal, but would later be extended to the Delaware River at Easton, Pennsylvania. It was conveyed to Conrail in 1976.
caption: The Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad connected to Pennsylvania's 1837 Main Line of Public Works, allowing manufactured and bulk goods, especially coal, to be shipped between the Delaware and Susquehanna River valleys
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