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The Cumberland Mine Railroad is a private carrier mine railroad serving the Cumberland Coal Resources mine near Waynesburg, Pennsylvania. Operations on the mine and associated railroad began in November 1976. The line was originally developed by United States Steel as a source of steam coal for export to Canada. Subsequently, the mine and ...
The mine branches remained in place, derelict, until the 1940s, when the three spurs and the main line south of Lock Ridge were abandoned. [3] The Catasauqua and Fogelsville was formally merged [ 5 ] [ 6 ] into the Reading on August 10, 1944, probably to simplify the corporate structure of that railroad and to save on taxes, as with a series of ...
Northwestern Pennsylvania Railway: PRR: 1895 1895 Western New York and Pennsylvania Railway: Northumberland County Railway Company: Nypano Railroad: ERIE: 1896 1941 Erie Railroad: Octoraro Railroad: OCTR 2003 2004 East Penn Railways: Octoraro Railway: OCTR 1977 1994 Delaware Valley Railway: Ohio and Baltimore Short Line Railway: B&O: 1873 1912
A Welsh miner in a coal mine in Pennsylvania's Coal Region in 1910. By the 18th century, the Susquehannock Native American tribe that had inhabited the region was reduced 90 percent [2] in three years of a plague of diseases and possibly war, [2] opening up the Susquehanna Valley and all of Pennsylvania to European settlers.
R.J. Corman Railroad/Pennsylvania Lines (reporting mark RJCP) is a railroad in the R.J. Corman Railroad Group, operating a number of lines in central Pennsylvania.It primarily carries coal between mines and Norfolk Southern Railway connections at Cresson and Keating. [1]
The MH&SH was incorporated by the Pennsylvania legislature on March 24, 1828. [5] The New York and Schuylkill Coal Co., with extensive land holdings on the West Branch Schuylkill River, began to plan for its construction prior to legislative approval - running surveys for the railroad along the West Branch and, on November 3, 1827, announcing plans to award contracts for railroad construction ...
The Mill Creek & Mine Hill Navigation and Railroad Co. was the second railroad built in Pennsylvania and the third in the United States, beginning operations in mid–1829. It was a short four mile line (eventually with about five miles of lateral connections) extending from Port Carbon, Pennsylvania along the Mill Creek towards active ...
The Cambria and Indiana Railroad (C&I) (reporting mark CI) is a railway company that is located in the southeastern part of Indiana County, Pennsylvania in the United States. Incorporated in 1904 and built in 1910 with the intention of carrying lumber , coal was discovered in the area soon after its construction, and C&I's fortunes subsequently ...