Present Day Remnants
Some signs of the LVT's single track Allentown to Philadelphia line still exist. The columned station on Perkasie's Walnut Street is the most evident. It now houses the Perkasie Historical Society. North of the Perkasie Station is the LVT tunnel under the Reading Railroad. Further north are concrete bridge abutments where the line crossed 9th Street.
At Sellersville the small white station is now a dental office. It served as a police station in the late 1950s. The Quakertown station at the northwest corner of Main and Broad has a mural on a back wall depicting one of the LVT's 1000 Series Liberty Bell Limited former Cincinnati and Lake Erie high speed interurbans. The house-like two story Hatfield station is now a cafe. Inside this cafe there are photographs of LVT cars, LVT locations, and a 1938 schedule of operations. South of this building, part of the former LVT right-of-way, including an original 1916 culvert, is a paved walking and biking trail called "The Liberty Bell Trail". Some of the former LVT right of way is visible from satellite as a faint scar across the countryside north of Quakertown. The DeLorme Company's "Pennsylvania Atlas and Gazetter Topographic Maps" book shows "old railroad grades" as a faint dashed red line on their maps. There is a dashed line shown running from Quakertown to Center Valley at present day Route 309; LVT periodically ran adjacen to PA Route 309.
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