Book ID: CBB108361297

Tracks around Mount Union: the narrow gauge capital of the east (2017)

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Kyper, Frank (Author)


Garbely Publishing Company


Publication Date: 2017
Physical Details: 133
Language: English

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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Authors & Contributors
Welsh, Joe
Rhine, Stan
Rauch, Gary
Dziobko, John
Tigges, John
Sundman, Jim
Concepts
Railroads
Land transportation
Pictorial works
Railroads, Narrow Gauge
Photography of railroads
Railroad yards
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
Places
United States
Pennsylvania (U.S.)
Hawaii (U.S.)
Iowa (U.S.)
New Jersey (U.S.)
Chicago (Illinois, U.S.)
Institutions
Pennsylvania Railroad
East Broad Top Railroad and Coal Company
Oahu Railway and Land Company
Strasburg Railroad
Long Island Rail Road Company
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railway Company
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