. Philadelphia and its environs, and the railroad scenery of Pennsylvania . LNDER THE BREAKER. point to point of this picturesque country. At Mahanoy City, the flourishing metropolis of thatvalley, and again at Shenandoah, the Lehigh and Mahanoy road connects with the Reading, THE RAILROAD SCENERY OF PENNSYLVANIA. 31 and will carry him through a series of romantic gorges to Penn Haven Junction and the Lehigh. LORBERRY JUNCTION. Valley ; the Central Railroad of New Jersey sends for him a branch to Tamaqua, and at MountCarmel and Shamokin he finds a branch of the Northern Central. The Reading, t
. Philadelphia and its environs, and the railroad scenery of Pennsylvania . LNDER THE BREAKER. point to point of this picturesque country. At Mahanoy City, the flourishing metropolis of thatvalley, and again at Shenandoah, the Lehigh and Mahanoy road connects with the Reading, THE RAILROAD SCENERY OF PENNSYLVANIA. 31 and will carry him through a series of romantic gorges to Penn Haven Junction and the Lehigh. LORBERRY JUNCTION. Valley ; the Central Railroad of New Jersey sends for him a branch to Tamaqua, and at MountCarmel and Shamokin he finds a branch of the Northern Central. The Reading, too, will carry him past Mount Carmel, where we left it last, down to the Sus-quehanna at Herndon, where it connects with the Northern Central; the whole route lying through a succession ofmountain and valley scen-ery, all alike in plan, allvarying in detail, like theselections we present atLorberry Junction and Ra-vmo Gap. Picturesque scenery in-volves bold engineering,and this, in turn, involvesthe facing of more thanordinary risks to train andtrack ; while these, in theirturn, excite to so muchmore than ordinary careand watchfulness that thereal danger is made lessthan on more common-place roads. All thesepoints are well displayedin the Catawissa Railroad,the longest and latest ac-quired branch of the Reading. Built, for the greaterpart of its course, through a country certainly never de-signed by n
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