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Josiah White and Erskine Hazard-founding partners of the Summit Hill & Mauch Chunk Railroad Pisgah Mountain and the topography of the Summit Hill and Mauch Chunk Railroad. The Mauch Chunk Switchback Railway, also known as the Mauch Chunk and Summit Railroad and occasionally shortened to Mauch Chunk Railway, was a coal-hauling railroad in the mountains of Pennsylvania that was built in 1827 and ...
The Bike Train is a 25-mile (40 km), 1-hour one-way trip from Jim Thorpe to White Haven that allows passengers to take their bicycles onboard for the trip up grade, and then bike the 25-mile (40 km) journey along the Lehigh Gorge Trail from White Haven down to Jim Thorpe. LGSR trains are usually diesel-powered and consist of an open-air car ...
The Central Railroad of New Jersey Station, also known as the Jersey Central Station and Jim Thorpe Station, is a historic railroad station located at Jim Thorpe, Carbon County, Pennsylvania. It was designed by Wilson Brothers & Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and built in 1888 by the Central Railroad of New Jersey.
The train will depart Reading Outer Station at 9 a.m. sharp, make a station stop at Port Clinton, and continue to Jim Thorpe, where passengers will have over four hours to explore the town, take ...
A map of Switchback Railroad Trail in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania. The Lehigh Switchback Rail-Trail is a rail trail in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania. [1] The trail surface is natural, consisting of dirt, roots, rocks, and occasional coal chunks. The trail runs downhill on the former right-of-way of the Mauch Chunk Switchback Railway from Summit Hill to ...
If you go, you must take a ride on the Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway, ... Route 209, Jim Thorpe Railroad Station, Jim Thorpe, Pa., 18229; 570-844-2001; poconomountains.com.
Central Railroad of New Jersey Station in Jim Thorpe, now a visitors center. Jim Thorpe was founded in 1818 as Mauch Chunk (/ ˌ m ɔː k ˈ tʃ ʌ ŋ k /), a name derived from the term Mawsch Unk, meaning Bear Place in Unami, the language of the native Lenape, possibly a reference to Bear Mountain, an extension of Mauch Chunk Ridge that resembled a sleeping bear, or perhaps the original ...
In August 2015, No. 425 was pulling regular passenger trains when it visited Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, meeting Nickel Plate Road 765 on a Norfolk Southern 21st Century Steam excursion. [13] At the same time, No. 425 was repainted in a dark midnight blue paint scheme with black wheels and whitewalls.