"The Jackson Coal Mining Company" Tom Curry opened up the Jackson Coal Mine in approximately 1914. Mr. Curry, who was the Superintendent, had already opened up...
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...
As the title says, how many cars are still out there? I know in terms of the PCC, you have the two coaches on display, one at Nay Aug and the other in Hawley....
Gentleman , In helping answer the question of the telegraph lines on the PCC Gravity the answer is there was no telegraph communication between the PCC office...
I'm interested in finding out some info on the telegraph line(s) used on the PCC, especially in the Dunmore area over to the other side of the mountain. I've...
Can anyone tell me where the edgerton mines are i know where the town was i have been through a few times but i cant find the mines or the air shafts thanks...
Does any one know where the Edgerton mine was or the air shafts i have been through the old town many times but could not find the air shafts i am sure the...
I've not seem much (if any) discussion of the Dunderberg Spiral Railway here. It was to have been a gravity railroad purpose-built for a pleasure ride. It's...
I'm a newbie to this group and have much enjoyed going through the message posts. In the Files section, I see many files with a .KMZ extension (taken from...
Placed a few pdf maps from a 1894 Atlas in the files, creating a new folder. Document can be found here: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3822wm.gla00091 ...
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the GravityRailroads group. File : /D&H...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
To Marty Going over your web site and I must say you are giving out a lot of wrong information as an example the Transfer Station at # 6 ,do you know where...
Gentlemen Just a comment or two to try adding some information to your discussion regarding the light track: West of Elmhurst where it crosses from the north...
Matt, Yes that's the map (one of only two) showing the "Old Railroad Grade" Tony is talking about. I agree with your hard to manipulate comment on the PSU ...
Regarding our conversations on the OLD RAILROAD GRADE that came from Winton into Dunmore and maybe it mayhave been a different route than the DL&W Winton...
Dick , Let me start off by saying that some of the DL&W / NS / Steamtown track bed we see today is not the same track bed from 1855 , the original bed in...
Going thru the groups postings I came across a question from pjkettlejr asking about the supposedely second tunnel on the PCC Gravity Railroad somewhere in...
I don't remember if I passed this on before, but ACME Mapper is a good viewer that allows you to toggle between Google aerials, USGS topos, Google street maps...
To our Gravity Railroad group members: As you know, steam engines were vital to the operation of most gravity railroads. We are going to have a Pennsylvania...
I have a chance to go next Tuesday to the Sate Archives in Harrisburg and look through PCC records from 1838 to 1871. There are 42 cu. Ft. of records for this...
Well I went and visited Planes 8 through 10 on the PCC gravity 9/20/08. I have only uploaded the photos from plane 10 for now, I will upload the rest tonight....
My Name is John and I live in Scranton, Pa. I came over from an invitation from Duplexdrive who I contacted via Google Earth. I was asking about some maps of...
