walterconklin wrote:Hello,
Was the LV mainline through the Lehigh Gorge always single track?
Sincerely,
Walter
The entire LV mainline from Jersey City to Buffalo was at one time double tracked, including 3 and 4 tracks in some areas. So that would include Lehigh Gap.
Here's a link to Scot Lawrence's map of remaining LV lines in use, which uses a map originally produced by the railroad. This is the map on the inset of Archer's book about about the LV. While Scot didn't include the legend, you can see that the mainline is shown to be double tracked.
http://www.frontiernet.net/~scottychaos/LVRR_bigmap.jpg