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In 2008, former Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell announced that the Kiski Junction would be awarded a state grant of $4 million to extend the line 9 miles north of Schenley to the mouth of Crooked Creek. The line was extended to serve the Logansport Mine (operated by Rosebud Mining Co.) in Logansport.
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The Middle Kittanning is at about surface level in the valleys of Monday Creek and Sunday Creek in southeastern Ohio, but become much deeper going east. Many towns and villages in southeast Ohio grew up around the mining of the Middle Kittanning coal vein. Many of these are known as the "Little Cities of Black Diamonds."
Kittanning Township is located in central Armstrong County several miles east of the Allegheny River and does not border the borough of Kittanning, the county seat.. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 30.8 square miles (79.8 km 2), of which 30.7 square miles (79.5 km 2) is land and 0.077 square miles (0.2 km 2), or 0.27%,
South Mountain Railway and Mining Company: South Mountain Railway and Mining Company: RDG: 1877 1891 Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railway: South Shore Railroad: 1892 Southern Pennsylvania Iron and Railroad Company: PRR: 1869 1872 Southern Pennsylvania Railway and Mining Company: Southern Pennsylvania Railway and Mining Company: PRR: 1873 1954 ...
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 ...
Most of these mines were dip-up mines mining the Lower Kittanning coal. Strip mining was done in the watershed from the 1930s to 1977. The D. G. Wertz Coal Company and the Kettle Creek Corporation were two companies that strip-mined coal in the area during this period. [8] The Lower Kittanning Coal was mined down to a depth of 60 feet (18 m). [12]
The district consists of a mine site and patch community associated with the Berwind-White Coal Mining Company's Eureka Mine No. 40, and developed between 1905 and the 1941.