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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 ...
Northwestern Pennsylvania Railway: PRR: 1895 1895 Western New York and Pennsylvania Railway: Northumberland County Railway Company: Nypano Railroad: ERIE: 1896 1941 Erie Railroad: Octoraro Railroad: OCTR 2003 2004 East Penn Railways: Octoraro Railway: OCTR 1977 1994 Delaware Valley Railway: Ohio and Baltimore Short Line Railway: B&O: 1873 1912
The mine branches remained in place, derelict, until the 1940s, when the three spurs and the main line south of Lock Ridge were abandoned. [3] The Catasauqua and Fogelsville was formally merged [ 5 ] [ 6 ] into the Reading on August 10, 1944, probably to simplify the corporate structure of that railroad and to save on taxes, as with a series of ...
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]
There is usually no direct connection from a mine railway to the mine's industrial siding or the public railway network, because of the narrow-gauge track that is normally employed. 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.
United States portal; Trains portal; Pages in category "Mining railways in the United States" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total.
The repository is constantly seeking donations of mine maps to add to the microfilm/digital collection. [12] When maps are received from a donor, they are scanned and stored in both microfilm and digital archives. The maps, along with a scanned images (upon request), are returned to the donor. The repository does not retain hard copies of maps.
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.