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Port Clinton is a borough in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. It is located at the confluence of the Schuylkill and Little Schuylkill rivers , it was a port on the Schuylkill Canal and named after DeWitt Clinton .
By 1904 the anthracite traffic had almost completely ceased, and after 1913 only an occasional cargo passed between Port Clinton and Philadelphia. Excursion vessels and pleasure boating remained active on the Schuylkill Navigation until most of the canals were filled by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania during 1947–1979 in efforts to remove ...
The Port Clinton station entrance in Port Clinton in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania Reading and Northern (RBMN) hopper cars loaded with anthracite in the trainyard of Blaschak Coal Company in Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania. RBMN's two main lines all operate entirely within Pennsylvania: Reading Division: Reading to Packerton, along the Lehigh River:
Lorraine Zimmerman, pictured, and her husband, Jack, donated the land she inherited from her parents, Raymond and Delores Hopfinger, to build an 80-acre free park just south of Port Clinton called ...
No. 425 would later operated on numerous trips out of Port Clinton, and also double headed with recently restored Central Railroad of New Jersey 0-6-0 #113 on several trips. 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 ...
The U.S. Office of Management and Budget [38] has designated Schuylkill County as the Pottsville, PA micropolitan statistical area (μSA). [39] As of the 2010 U.S. Census [ 40 ] the micropolitan area ranked the number 1 most populous in the State of Pennsylvania and the 5th most populous in the United States with a population of 148,289.
Port Clinton is the name of several places in the United States: Port Clinton, Ohio; Port Clinton, Pennsylvania; Outside the continental US: Port Clinton, Queensland, in Australia; Clinton, South Australia, often referred to as Port Clinton in Australia
Outcrop of the Bloomsburg Formation at Port Clinton. Roundtop Hill, Maryland, along railroad grade; Port Clinton, Pennsylvania, where bedding is nearly vertical and cleavage is visible; U.S. Route 22, 2.3 km northeast of Canoe Creek [9]