The Lehigh and New England Railroad was a homegrown product of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Co. with its roots in the coal-rich Panther Valley and its branches stretching to New York City and ...

The Auburn branch of the Lehigh valley struggled along until 1958, when the roadbed was abandoned. The bridge over East Brutus Street, where the library is now, was taken down in March of 1958.

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 ...