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Mountain Top, Pennsylvania, is a railroad town once named Penobscot, [1] built beside the yard to house its employees and those of the nearby mines. The town is located at (41.1353022, -75.9044749) in the shadow of Mount Penobscot (or Penobscot Knob) and is located in the saddle-shaped mountain pass atop the ridgeline between the Susquehanna River basin to the north and west and the Lehigh ...
Ashley Planes was a historic freight cable railroad situated along three separately powered inclined plane sections located between Ashley, Pennsylvania at the foot, and via the Solomon cutting the yard in Mountain Top over 1,000 feet (300 m) above and initially built between 1837 and 1838 by Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company's subsidiary Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad (L&S).
Mountain Top is located in the Crestwood School District, [8] which covers over 110 square miles (280 km 2) and includes Dennison Township, Dorrance Township, Fairview Township, Nuangola Borough, Rice Township, Slocum Township, White Haven Borough, Wright Township, and Penn Lake Borough.
The Blue Mountain and Reading Railroad was founded in 1983 to provide freight service on the former Pennsylvania Railroad Schuylkill Division between Hamburg and Temple. Starting in 1985, the BM&R began operating passenger excursions over the line using two steam locomotives: ex- Gulf, Mobile and Northern Railroad 4-6-2 № 425 and ex- Reading ...
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The yard is a way point along the historic rail corridor that extends along the left bank Susquehanna River through the RBMN Duryea Yard and Mountain Top Yards down along the route of the historic Lehigh Canal and across the Delaware at Easton, Pennsylvania.
Physically, the yard is located on the main branch of the Susquehanna River and in the peninsula formed by the confluence of the Lackawanna. South entrance of Duryea yard and environs. At -B- both northbound mainlines are of equal height; running further northeast, the more northerly track to Mountain Top flies over the more southerly one to ...
Yard Mountain is a mountain in the High Peaks Region of the Adirondack Park in New York. Yard Mountains elevation is 4,000 feet (1,200 m) but it is not one of the High Peaks as it is too close to Big Slide Mountain .