2005-10-29 & 30: Jim Thorpe, Pa.:
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- PGK Art: Jim Thorpe, Pa. — formerly known as Mauch Chunk (an Indian name meaning “bear mountain”), is a stunning town that still retains many of its historical buildings and is deep in the valley of the Lehigh River. In the 1900s it was the second favorite tourist center in the USA after Niagara Falls and was known as the Switzerland of America.
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- PGK Art: Jersey Central Lines – mesh louvers diesel locomotive, model F3A, manufactured in 1947 by the Electro-Motive Division (EMD) of General Motors
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- Krysia riding the train
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- Jim Thorpe Railroad Station The cab of the #2003 (SD38) is open for cab tours
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- Pawel & Pawel
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- PGK Art: The Lehigh River
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- PGK Art: Reading and Northern Railroad diesel locomotive # 5033, model SD-50M, manufactured in 1984 by the Electro-Motive Division (EMD) of General Motors
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- Formed March 13, 1843 from Northampton and Monroe counties. Carbon is the bais element of this area’s rich deposits of anthracite coal. The county seat, incorporated in 1850 as Mauch Chunk, was renamed in 1954 for Jim Thorpe, an Indian athlete.
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- County Of Carbon Court House, Jim Thorpe, Pa. June 21, 1877 — The Day of the Rope
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- PGK Art: Asa PackerMansion, Jim Thorpe, Pa.
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- PGK Art: Harry PackerMansion, Jim Thorpe, Pa. Harry was the son of Asa Packer; the mansion sits next to the Asa Packer Mansion, on a hill overlooking downtown Jim Thorpe.
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- PGK Art: Sunrise Diner & the rooming-house-style Hotel Switzerland, one of the oldest buildings in Jim Thorpe, Pa.
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- PGK Art: What lurks on your rooftop?
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- This is Krysia
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- Krysia and a friend
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- PGK Art: The Bridge That Was Central Railroad of New Jersey abandoned Turn Hole Tunnel in Glen Onoko, Pennsylvania — the original alignment of the Lehigh & Susquehanna Railroad at Glen Onoko passed through the mountain in a short tunnel whose west bore opened onto the river; in 1912, the CNJ mainline was realigned around the west slope of the mountain; the old mainline at the west end of Turn Hole Tunnel opened onto CNJ bridge No. 120/28 at the Lehigh River; after 1912 the old mainline was used as a passing siding until its abandonment in July 1956.
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- PGK Art: Autumn Leaves
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- PGK Art: Pocono Mountains, Pa.
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- PGK Art: Road Trip
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- PGK Art: Boulder Field Natural Area in Hickory Run State Park. The Boulder Field is an unusual formation of glacial origin, striking due to its flatness and relatively large size. The field is approximately 400 by 1,800 feet and is at least 12 feet deep, making it the largest formation of its kind in the Appalachian Mountains. This feature was formed not from the debris of a retreating glacier, but as a result of glacier-related climatic extremes on rock outcrops. Over time, repeated freezing and thawing caused the splitting apart of these outcrops and the gradual movement of the resulting boulders downslope to their present location. The formation, as it appears today, has remained essentially unchanged for the past 20,000 years.
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