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  2. List of Pennsylvania railroads - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Cumberland Mine Railroad - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  4. Category:Mining railways in the United States - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Mill Creek and Mine Hill Navigation and Railroad Company

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    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 ...

  6. R.J. Corman Railroad/Pennsylvania Lines - Wikipedia

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    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]

  7. Coal Region - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Catasauqua and Fogelsville Railroad - Wikipedia

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    The Catasauqua and Fogelsville Railroad was built in the 1850s to transport iron ore from local mines in Lehigh and later Berks County to furnaces along the Lehigh River in eastern Pennsylvania. Originally owned by two iron companies, the railroad later became part of the Reading Company , and parts of it remain in operation today.

  9. Clearfield Coalfield - Wikipedia

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    The entrance of the Pennsylvania Railroad's extension from Tyrone, northwest to Philipsburg and Clearfield opened much of the field to coal mining. Later the New York Central (NYC) built the Beech Creek Railroad from Jersey Shore up Beech Creek and entered Clearfield from the northeast.