A program on railroad history will be presented at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Sayre Historical Society. The program, titled “Along the Line of the Lehigh Valley Railroad from New York to Niagara ...

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The history of the Lehigh Valley Railroad will take center stage from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the Sayre Historical Society’s annual Caboose Day.

A few decades ago, the handsome mid-19th-century Sayre Mansion was nearly razed. Today, the historic Bethlehem, Pennsylvania ...

Special displays, tours of the 1941 Sayre-built Lehigh Valley Railroad caboose, and a new Lehigh Valley Railroad print by artist James Mann will be part of the day’s offerings.

Reflections of History is a monthly feature that highlights a historical structure in the Lehigh Valley or northwest New Jersey. This week the focus is on The Sayre Mansion in Bethlehem. In the ...

On the last day of the year 1865, Robert H. Sayre, self-taught engineer, creator of Bethlehem Iron Company (later Bethlehem Steel), and man of all work to Lehigh Valley Railroad ...

On the south side of Bethlehem, Pa., the train whistle blows in the middle of the night. I turn over and go back to sleep. An hour or so later, another train whistle blows. The ghostly sound is not… ...

Since 1858, the Sayre Mansion has towered over Southside Bethlehem to the west from its perch atop a hill just off Route 378. In those 150-plus years, the former home of Lehigh Valley Railroad ...

Lackawanna’s owners set up a railroad of their own, the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western, to compete with the Lehigh Valley Railroad as a coal carrier. Sayre and Packer were not only subsidizing ...