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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 ...
Southern Pennsylvania Railway and Mining Company: Southern Pennsylvania Railway and Mining Company: PRR: 1873 1954 Penndel Company: Southwark Railroad: PRR: 1831 1877 Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad: South West Connecting Railway: PRR: 1897 1908 Pennsylvania Railroad: South-West Pennsylvania Railway: PRR: 1871 1906 Pennsylvania ...
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]
Mining railways in the United States. United States portal; Trains portal; Pages in category "Mining railways in the United States" The following 26 pages are in this ...
In the United States, the standard gauge for mine haulage is 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm), although gauges from 18 in (457 mm) to 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) are used. [13] [14] Original mine railways used wax-impregnated wooden rails attached to wooden sleepers, on which drams were dragged by men, children or animals. This was later replaced by L-shaped iron ...
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 Mt. Carbon Railroad (MC) was one of what was known as lateral railroads built in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania in the 1820s and 1830s, and which were first constructed to accommodate the Schuylkill Canal with coal produced from the coal district south of the Mine Hill and east of the West Branch Schuylkill River, covering an area of between sixty and seventy square miles. [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 ...