Kyper, Frank (Author)
To the casual observer, a railroad town is a community shaped by, and dependent upon, the rail lines within its limits. The south-central Pennsylvania borough of Mount Union certainly met these criteria, as the successes of Mount Unions bustling industrial concerns were facilitated by a comprehensive web of both standard and narrow gauge rail lines. While the Pennsylvania Railroads standard gauge mainline bisected the town, it was truly Mount Union's four separate narrow gauge operations that turned the small Pennsylvania borough into the narrow gauge capital of the East. Within the towns borders, the famous East Broad Top Railroad, a three-foot gauge coal-hauling line, shared a sprawling dual gauge rail yard with the PRR. Additional three-foot gauge equipment was employed to mine and deliver ganister rock to the Harbison-Walker Refractories Companys twin silica brick plants, and the PRR itself even operated a diminutive two-foot gauge railroad to service the railroads crosstie treatment plant. A short 27.5 gauge tramway operated during the 19th century along the east bank of the Juniata River. (Publisher)
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