1942
Lehigh Valley Railroad West End Branch Map
Source: Map from Proceedings of the Lehigh County Historical Society, vol. 40, Lehigh County Historical Society, 1992, p. 269.
The West End Branch was a Lehigh Valley Railroad industrial line through the west side of Allentown, and this sheet maps it customer by customer — the sidings curling off toward Trexler Lumber’s numbered team tracks, the coal and oil dealers strung along Sumner Avenue, and names like Loose-Wiles Biscuit, Hummel Furniture and United Compressed Steel. The legend separates active track from abandoned. Hand-lettered by David Latshaw and dated 1942 in its title block, it was printed as figure 15 alongside a history of the line in the Lehigh County Historical Society’s Proceedings, vol. 40 (1992).