Perhaps it was fitting that darkness had settled over downtown Allentown 50 years ago today when motorman Fred Enters fired up Trolley No. 1006 for the last run on the Liberty Bell Route, the ...

In the early 1940s, we lived in a small three-room apartment across the street from the Allentown Fairgrounds. Dad worked second shift at Mack Trucks. Once in a while in the evening, Mom would say,… ...

That date marked the last run of the Liberty Bell line, the trolley link between Allentown and Philadelphia that had been the pride of the LVT since 1912.