I think I know where that is. If you follow the ex-Erie line to the edge of the scrapyard, this large rock cut can be seen. We stumbled across it this year...
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bucyrus6150
Nov 15, 2009 9:41 pm
Hi everyone, I've been a member here for a while but this is my first post here. I came across this old car in PA right off of Rt. 106 in Greenfield Township...
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bucyrus6150
Nov 15, 2009 9:42 pm
Sorry, I completely forgot to attach the picture with my post, its now in the photo album "Gravity Cars"....
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Camp S
campshohola
Nov 15, 2009 10:00 pm
Yes, It is D&H combination car #2 and is one of the earlier cars, being built about 1867. It was used as a Bunkhouse for workers on the farm starting in 1899...
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gto455cubes
Nov 16, 2009 1:39 am
Mike , it's me Tony Ranella Jr. That rock cut you saw is the PCC Gravity Light Track , the cut is the Donnelly Cut and about 20 years ago you could have...
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gto455cubes
Nov 16, 2009 1:46 am
Mike , the Gravity crossed much further up the Brook than the E&WV RR , if you are going towards the Pocono's from Dunmore on 380 , just as the 380 bridge...
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iso81shark
Nov 16, 2009 3:11 am
"If anyone of you fellows would like to see this in person , just let me know and I'll be glad to make arrangements on a Saturday so we can meet and look at...
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gto455cubes
Nov 17, 2009 2:03 am
Guy's , I just want to let all that are interested in the PCC Gravity know that today ( Monday ) myself and my Uncle and a close friend were hiking on Incline...
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Chris Mencen
mencen76
Nov 17, 2009 2:39 am
My father and I would be interested. Chris ... From: iso81shark <iso81shark@...> Subject: [GravityRailroads] Re: PCC Tunnell #2 To:...
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proformancec...
Nov 17, 2009 3:27 am
Tone: Nice! Would be great to see that history! It's neat to think that even back then the PCC was a "green" company as they used coal fired steam stationary...
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proformancec...
Nov 17, 2009 5:17 am
Tone: Nice! Would be great to see that history! It's neat to think that even back then the PCC was a "green" company as they used coal fired steam stationary ...
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gto455cubes
Nov 22, 2009 6:25 am
As I said it starts next to St. Johns Cemetery and would parallel the left side of the Underwood road and pass thru what is now the Mid-Valley School , then...
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Mike
mikeexplorer03
Nov 23, 2009 10:27 pm
Tony, Do you have a map that shows this branch line? We suspected there was a railroad bed near where the warehouse now sits between that and the main Cinram...
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gto455cubes
Nov 24, 2009 2:26 am
Mike those abutments supported the small bridge that crossed over Sterry Creek , is this what your talking about . If you go on Pennpilot 1937 down where...
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Mike
mikeexplorer03
Nov 25, 2009 11:04 am
I have seen the abutments and they aren't the line you are talking about, but interesting that they are still their. Ill have to check out the pennpilot image....
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gto455cubes
Nov 26, 2009 1:44 am
Mike where are the abutments located that your talking about ?, let me know . I now work for the State , couldn't take that 12 hour shift any more . Keep in...
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Mike
mikeexplorer03
Nov 26, 2009 2:07 pm
Best way to describe it would be this way. Coming from Jessup, get off at the E Lackawanna exit of the Casey and go down the ramp about half way and stop. Look...
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gto455cubes
Dec 10, 2009 3:20 am
Just saw the posting of # 8 Incline on the PCC Gravity RR , and to clear a few things up , the # 8 incline was not water powered , never was. The only Loaded...
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Mike
mikeexplorer03
Jan 2, 2010 3:25 pm
From reading the description of the group, A group of us explored the remains of the Lackawanna Iron & Steel company's railroad that provided iron ore to the...
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John B
iso81shark
Jan 2, 2010 4:50 pm
Great stuff Mike, thanks very much! ... From: Mike <mikeexplorer03@...> Subject: [GravityRailroads] Lackawanna Iron & Steel Company railroad ? To:...
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golden6727@...
gto455cubes
Jan 6, 2010 2:35 am
Gentlemen , Something I found out that has to do with the Old Railroad Grade on the 1888 map , it seems to me that the Grade was not Jessups Railroad that...
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Frank
fpadams80920
Jan 6, 2010 9:03 pm
Tony, If Jessup's Lackawanna Railroad ended in 1857, and J.R. David breaker was built in 1863, why does that disqualify the N Apple St old railroad grading ...
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golden6727@...
gto455cubes
Jan 7, 2010 2:39 am
The breaker wasn't built till 1863 so how did the coal get to Greenville when the incline wasn't built till 1863 ?. Jessups railroad had to take a ...
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Frank
fpadams80920
Jan 7, 2010 3:59 pm
... Tony, So there's evidence that the incline didn't use the (old) existing grade? Again it would have been 6 years after Jessup's operation was dismantled. ...
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Mike
mikeexplorer03
Jan 7, 2010 9:51 pm
Isn't Jessup's Folly the same railroad grade as the ex-DL&W Winton branch? It follows next to the Old Drinker Turnpike? I would like to see this 1888 map to be...
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gto455cubes
Jan 8, 2010 2:51 am
But how did all this tie into getting up to Greenville ? , and why isn't Jessups railroad on any map earlier than say 1885 ? , if his railroad did come into...
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mikeexplorer03
Jan 21, 2010 10:43 pm
Someone asked on my site about a 2 story railroad tower from 1905-1906 that ran through Hoadleys. It has a sign "KR" on the side. Given the dates I wonder if...
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Walter
whniehoff
Mar 18, 2010 10:36 pm
I was just recently referred to your discussion group. Reading your group Description, it seems to suggest that the Mauch Chunk and Summit Hill was not a...
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Rock
rock38
Mar 18, 2010 11:03 pm
Walter, Thank you for joining our group. I agree with you that the Mauch Chunk Switchback is a true gravity railroad. It's amazing the amount of "stuff" there...
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Mar 22, 2010 4:17 pm
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