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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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ]
Mountain Top, Pennsylvania, is a railroad town once named Penobscot, [1] built beside the yard to house its employees and those of the nearby mines. The town is located at (41.1353022, -75.9044749) in the shadow of Mount Penobscot (or Penobscot Knob) and is located in the saddle-shaped mountain pass atop the ridgeline between the Susquehanna River basin to the north and west and the Lehigh ...
Wadesville Tunnel, Wadesville, Danville and Pottsville Railroad (destroyed by strip mining), second U.S. railroad tunnel White Cottage Tunnel , Pennsylvania Railroad, near Holbrook , Greene County White Haven Tunnel , White Haven , Central Railroad of New Jersey [ 44 ]
Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad: OHPA 1995 1996 Central Columbiana and Pennsylvania Railway: Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad: PRR: 1848 1856 Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad: Ohio River Junction Railroad: 1908 1908 North Shore Railroad: Ohio River and Lake Erie Railroad: B&LE: 1881 1886 Erie, Shenango and Pittsburgh Railway: Oil City ...