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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.
Western Pennsylvania Railroad: North Western Coal and Iron Company: DL&W: 1856 1856 Buffalo Coal and Iron Company: 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 ...
The entrance of the Pennsylvania Railroad's extension from Tyrone, northwest to Philipsburg and Clearfield opened much of the field to coal mining. Later the New York Central (NYC) built the Beech Creek Railroad from Jersey Shore up Beech Creek and entered Clearfield from the northeast.
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 ]
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 ...
The Mill Creek & Mine Hill Navigation and Railroad Co. was the second railroad built in Pennsylvania and the third in the United States, beginning operations in mid–1829. It was a short four mile line (eventually with about five miles of lateral connections) extending from Port Carbon, Pennsylvania along the Mill Creek towards active ...
The rise of the railway system expanded the anthracite coal industry. The D&H Company was one of the first to attempt the use of steam locomotives in the United States. They purchased a locomotive from England so they could transport coal from the mines to their canal, and tested it on a railroad track in 1829.