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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 ...
New York and Pennsylvania Railroad: 1896 1902 New York and Pennsylvania Railway: New York and Pennsylvania Railway: 1904 1935 N/A New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad: ERIE: 1880 1896 Nypano Railroad: New York and Pittsburgh Air Line Railroad: 1906 1907 Philipsburg Railroad: New York and Pittsburg Central Railroad: 1903 1906 N/A
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 ...
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 United States has a high concentration of railway towns, communities that developed and/or were built around a railway system. Railway towns are particularly abundant in the midwest and western states, and the railroad has been credited as a major force in the economic and geographic development of the country. [1]
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 ...
Rail Link (operates 26 short line railroads) RLIX Housatonic Railroad (HRRC) (CT, MA, NY) HRRC Idaho Northern & Pacific Railroad (ID and OR) INPR Kankakee, Beaverville and Southern Railroad (IL and IN) KBSR New York New Jersey Rail (NJ and NY) NYNJ Pend Oreille Valley Railroad (ID and WA) POVA St Lawrence & Atlantic Railroad (ME, NH, and VT) SLA
West Penn Railways consisted of 339 miles (546 km) of electric trolley trackage at its peak. It operated in a well populated mining region of rugged mountainous western Pennsylvania and connected numerous towns and villages with hourly or better transport from its north end towns at McKeesport, Latrobe and Trafford through the larger towns of Greensburg, Mt Pleasant, Connellsville, Scottdale ...