• "Jackson Coal RR"?

  • Discussion relating to the NYC and subsidiaries, up to 1968. Visit the NYCS Historical Society for more information.
Discussion relating to the NYC and subsidiaries, up to 1968. Visit the NYCS Historical Society for more information.

Moderator: Otto Vondrak

  by salminkarkku
 
Here's an obscure NYC subsidiary in PA, on the historical USGS in 1913, running south of Stoneboro to a connection with a PRR spur near Jackson Center:

http://historical.maptech.com/getImage. ... g&state=PA

Did it go any further? I've found evidence that some lines were pulled up in 1909, before the date of the map.

  by choess
 
Per Taber's "Railroads of Pennsylvania", the first mile south of Stoneboro was built by the Mercer Iron and Coal Co. (chartered 1863) in 1873. The Jackson Coal Co. was incorporated on Feb. 26, 1883 to built ten miles south from the end of Mercer's spur to Grove City. It was built "4 or 5 miles" in 1883 to Jackson Center to the Filer & Westermann coal mines and removed after 1911. Taber mentions no further construction on their part. Careful scrutiny of the 1913 map shows that the two spurs at Jackson Center are not, in fact, continuous; perhaps both PRR and NYC served the same tipple there. The Geology of Pennsylvania report of 1895 (Google Books) speaks of the Jackson Coal Co. as shipping 150 tons per day over the New Castle & Franklin (PRR) and Lake Shore & Michigan Southern, Franklin Branch (NYC).