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English: Down Among the Coal Mines -- Chutes Loading the Canal-Boats on the Lehigh Canal, a wood engraving published in Harper's Weekly, February 1873. Anthracite Coal was loaded at the foot of Mount Pisgah from above historic Mauch Chunk (present-day Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania). At the top of the image the visible railway 'Wye' is the cross-over between the gravity railroad down track and the cable railroad and inclined plane up railway of the Summit Hill and Mauch Chunk Railroad (aka: 'Mauch Chunk Switchback Railway'; the second operating railway in the country. The railway is considered the first roller coaster in the world and did a tourist trade as early as 1827; and ended it's life serving such tourists between the 1870s and 1931.

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Date 30 July 2008 (original upload date)
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  • 2008-07-30 16:13 Hugh Manatee 857×649× (147993 bytes) ''Down Among the Coal Mines -- Chutes Loading the Canal-Boats on the Lehigh Canal'', a wood engraving published in ''Harper's Weekly'', February 1873.

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