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The Central Railroad of New Jersey Station, also known as the Jersey Central Station and Jim Thorpe Station, is a historic railroad station located at Jim Thorpe, Carbon County, Pennsylvania. It was designed by Wilson Brothers & Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and built in 1888 by the Central Railroad of New Jersey.
The Bike Train is a 25-mile (40 km), 1-hour one-way trip from Jim Thorpe to White Haven that allows passengers to take their bicycles onboard for the trip up grade, and then bike the 25-mile (40 km) journey along the Lehigh Gorge Trail from White Haven down to Jim Thorpe. LGSR trains are usually diesel-powered and consist of an open-air car ...
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 All-Florida Special 1924 — 1925 New York, NY — Florida via SAL renamed Orange Blossom Special; The All-Florida Special 1925 — 1927 New York, NY — Florida via SAL; The Allegheny 1948 — 1959 St. Louis, MO — Pittsburgh, PA; Altoona Express 1919 — 1921 Philadelphia, PA — Altoona, PA; The American 1925 — 1956
On August 13, 2022, No. 425 double headed with No. 2102 for the first time since 1988 to pull the Iron Horse Rambles train from Reading to Jim Thorpe. [16] After running its last excursion trains such as the Autumn Leaf and the Santa Claus Special in November and December 2022, respectively, No. 425 was taken out of service for its mandatory ...
Reading Blue Mountain and Northern 2102 (historically known as Reading 2102) is a preserved T-1 class 4-8-4 "Northern" type steam locomotive.Originally built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in March 1925 as an "I-10sa" 2-8-0 "Consolidation" type locomotive for the Reading Company (RDG), No. 2102 was rebuilt by RDG's own locomotive shops as a 4-8-4 "Northern" in September 1945, and it was used ...
Central Railroad of New Jersey Station in Jim Thorpe, now a visitors center. Jim Thorpe was founded in 1818 as Mauch Chunk (/ ˌ m ɔː k ˈ tʃ ʌ ŋ k /), a name derived from the term Mawsch Unk, meaning Bear Place in Unami, the language of the native Lenape, possibly a reference to Bear Mountain, an extension of Mauch Chunk Ridge that resembled a sleeping bear, or perhaps the original ...
A map of Switchback Railroad Trail in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania. The Lehigh Switchback Rail-Trail is a rail trail in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania. [1] The trail surface is natural, consisting of dirt, roots, rocks, and occasional coal chunks. The trail runs downhill on the former right-of-way of the Mauch Chunk Switchback Railway from Summit Hill to ...