Len
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by Beech Cricker
Schuylkill Valley wrote: The Beech Creek Railroad was formerly called the Susquehanna & South Western Railroad. The Beech Creek District consisted of the trackage from Jersey Shore Jct. southward and westward. The balance of the trackage, from Newberry Jct. (near Williamsport) to Jersey Shore Jct. and northward into New York State was the Fall Brook District. Coal from the Clearfield District, for which the Peale area was a part, moved to Newberry where it was interchanged with the Reading Railroad for forwarding to tidewater, or continued northward into New York for other coal users in the East. The output of the Clearfield Bituminous Coal Corporation mines was used for company supply coal by the NYC's Lines East (of Buffalo).I wrote this piece--I believe you may have gotten this from a guy selling a BCRR bond certificate?
Do you have anything more from the Railroad Museum of PA specific to the Gorton station?
Jeff
by Beech Cricker
Schuylkill Valley wrote:This is a bridge near kate do, I think that's the right spelling. Have you ever been through the tunnel near Orvenson?I think you mean Kato (once spelled Cato)?
Len.
This bridge does not look familiar at all. Certainly it wasn't a RR bridge. There are many roads back in there though.
Yes, I have been to Hogback Tunnel, located between Kato and Orviston. It has become quite a challenge to get to now that many of the RR bridges were scrapped out several years ago.
Jeff