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Black Diamond express, Lehigh Valley Railroad

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Black Diamond express, Lehigh Valley Railroad

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Title from jacket.
Videodisc image laterally reversed.
Detroit Publishing Co. no. 042569.
Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

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01/01/1895
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