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INDEX
Acela Express (train), 21
Alexandria, 265
Aliquippa & Ohio River Railroad, 231
Allegany Branch (Pennsy), 301
Allegheny, 273–274, 280, 281, 307
Allegheny Division (Conrail), 255
Allegheny Portage Railroad, 13, 23, 42, 126, 228, 229, 232–233, 241, 245–247, 265, 292, 295
Allegheny River Trail, 327
Allegheny Valley Railroad (AVR), 230, 272–273, 276, 301, 305–306, 324
Allentown, 8, 18, 130, 190, 205
Altoona, 24, 85, 234–236, 241–242, 246, 252–257, 262–264, 283, 297
Ambler, 59
Amtrak, 8, 21–22, 31–32, 58, 66, 81, 82, 92, 95, 96, 107, 221, 261–265, 293, 294, 319, 323
Ansonia, 179
Antrim, 171
Arboretum Trail, 306
Ardmore, 4, 34
Armstrong Trail, 180, 305
Arnold, 273
Ashland, 136–137, 139
Atglen, 107
Athensville, 34
Atlantic & Great Western Railway, 163–164, 315, 316
Atlantic City Railroad, 142
Atlantic Coast Line, 271
Atterbury, William Wallace, 25–26
Auburn, 149
Austin, 160
Back Mountain Trail, 224
Bagdad, 301
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (B&O), 2, 51, 66, 76, 78, 81, 101, 151, 168, 225–227, 229, 230, 238, 243–245, 266, 270–272, 274–277, 279, 288, 299, 302, 303, 312
Baltimore & Susquehanna Rail Road, 70–72, 91, 106, 155–156
Bear Creek Railroad, 307
Bear Lake (town), 163
Beaver Meadow Railroad, 8
Beaver Meadow Trail, 180
Beech Creek Railroad, 151, 237–238
Bellefonte, 120
Bellefonte Central Trail, 180
Bells Gap Rail Trail, 265
Belvidere Delaware Railroad, 8
Berks Area Reading Transportation Authority, 130
Berks County Railroad, 135
Berwick, 118
Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad (B&LE), 282, 307–308, 310, 311, 314, 319, 322
BethIntermodal, 53
Bethlehem, 8–11, 27, 52–53, 57, 59, 63
Bethlehem Branch (Reading system), 11, 56
Birdsboro, 148
Black Diamond Express (train), 10
Blaisdell-Emery Trail, 180
Bloomsburg, 120
Bloomsburg Branch (Conrail), 118
Blossburg, 151, 152, 166
Blossburg & Corning Railroad, 152
Blue Mountain & Reading Railroad, 115–116, 118, 132
Boston & Maine Railroad, 202
Bracken, 265
Bradford, 162, 166
Bridge(s), 72, 79, 91, 114, 116, 124, 134–135, 148, 185, 189, 197, 223, 238, 243, 256, 257, 263, 266, 268, 270, 273–274, 278, 301
Columbia, 73, 74
Conema
ugh Viaduct, 240
Delaware Aqueduct (Roebling Bridge), 218–219
Fahy (New Street), 54
Falls, 40, 112
Fort Wayne, 294
George Westinghouse Memorial, 296
Hot Metal, 289–290
Johnstown Stone, 233, 240–241, 265
Kinzua Viaduct, 166, 173–176
Lincoln Avenue, 296
Market Street, 4
National Gateway project, 271
Panhandle Division, 280, 285
Pencoyd Viaduct (Schuylkill River Railroad Bridge), 41–42
Rockford, 262
Rockville, 96–97, 296
skew, 130–131, 247
Smithfield Street, 267, 288
Soap and Whiskey, 131
Starrucca Viaduct, 214–215, 217
Swinging, 131
Tunkhannock Viaduct, 204, 210, 212, 216–217
Youghiogheny River, 302, 304
Bristol, 222, 232
Bristol Industrial Terminal Railway, 11
Bristol Spurline Park (rail-trail), 63
Broadway Limited (train), 5–6, 182
Brogue, 103
Bryn Mawr, 17, 34–37, 39
Bucksgahuda and Western Railroad, 164–165
Budd cars, 171, 302
Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway, 230
Buffalo & Pittsburgh Railroad (B&P), 230–231, 272
Buffalo & Rochester, 150
Buffalo Line (Norfolk Southern), 119, 190–191
Burlington Northern Santa Fe, 310
Butler-Freeport Community Trail, 306
Cambria & Indiana Railroad, 265
Cambria County Conservation & Recreation Authority, 265
Camden & Amboy Railroad and Transportation Company, 9
Camp Chase Railroad, 272
Canadian National (CN), 171, 231, 272, 308, 310–311, 322
Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), 53, 78, 117, 145, 161, 189–191, 217, 231
Canals, 1–2, 8, 12–14, 26, 51, 69–70, 94, 99, 109–110, 112, 120, 121, 125, 126, 129, 133, 139, 144, 150, 152, 166, 169, 181, 184, 187–189, 195–196, 217, 218, 223, 225, 231–233, 238–239, 246, 265, 273–274, 285, 312
C&O Canal Towpath, 304
Capital Area Greenbelt, 105
Carbon City, 191
Carbondale, 184, 187–192, 208
Carload Express, 272–273
Carnegie, Andrew, 281–283
Cassatt, Alexander J., 24–25
Cassatt Line South, 24–25
Catasauqua, 136
Catawissa, 144–145
Cecil County Line (Philadelphia & Baltimore Central Railroad), 81
Centralia, 137–138
Central New York Railroad, 191
Central Rail Road, 120
Central Railroad of New Jersey (CNJ), 8, 20, 116, 138, 186–187, 197, 202–205, 207, 223, 226
Centre County Cluster (Conrail), 118
Centreville, 316
Chambersburg, 72, 73, 271
Chambersburg Rail-Trail, 108
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway (C&O), 227, 270–271
Chessie System, 227, 270–271, 285, 302
Chester Valley Branch (Reading system), 11
Chester Valley Trail, 62
Chestnut Hill, 38–39, 79
Chestnut Hill East Line (SEPTA), 38
Chestnut Hill Railroad, 38
Chestnut Hill West Line (SEPTA), 38
Cheyney, 46, 58, 60
Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad, 185, 204
Chicago & Erie Railroad, 182
Christiana, 80–81, 93
Civil war, railroads during, 6, 24, 64–65, 73–76, 99, 101–102, 107, 203, 243, 244
Clarion Highlands Trail, 180, 327
Clearfield, 151, 237
CN/BLE, 311
Coal, 109–112, 114, 116, 117, 119–121, 125–127, 134, 136–139, 141–143, 146–149, 151, 152, 166, 169, 171, 173, 183–184, 186–190, 203, 204, 206–207, 210–211, 219, 231, 258–259, 261, 263, 265–267, 270, 272, 307, 311, 314, 319, 324
Mauch Chunk, 8, 186, 193–198, 205–206, 222
Molly Maguires, 122–124, 140, 206
Coal & Coke Trail, 306
Coatesville, 4
Colebrook Branch (Reading system), 11
Columbia, 1, 2, 4, 12–14, 23, 69, 70, 73, 74, 91, 94, 231
Columbus Station (town), 163, 164
Conemaugh Division (Pennsy), 301
Conemaugh Line (Norfolk Southern), 270
Conewago Recreation Trail, 108
Connellsville, 65, 267, 269, 278–279, 302, 304
Conoy Canal Trail, 108
Conrail (Consolidated Rail Corporation), 10–11, 20, 40, 59, 62, 66, 68, 77, 98, 115–119, 148, 154, 179, 185, 187, 190, 191, 230, 253, 255, 267, 271, 272, 301, 306, 312, 324
Conservancy Narrow Gauge Rail Trail, 224
Conway, 281
Conway Yard, 98, 270
Coopersburg, 56
Coraopolis, 305
Corning, Cowanesque & Antrim Railway, 151, 152, 154
Corning, Erastus, 166–167
Corry, 312, 315, 316, 323–324, 327
Corry Junction Greenway Trail, 327
Cowanshannock Trail, 306
Crescent Corridor (Norfolk Southern), 53, 68
Cresco, 200
Cresson, 239, 246, 249, 251, 263, 264, 283
CSX, 11, 20, 46, 66, 77, 78, 102, 161, 227, 230, 231, 267, 270–272, 279, 285, 288, 291, 302, 304, 322–323
Cumberland County Biker/Hiker Trail, 108
Cumberland Valley Railroad (CV), 4–5, 64, 72–73, 81, 84, 85, 96, 238
Cumberland Valley Rail-Trail, 108
Cynwyd Heritage Trail, 42
D&H Trail, 224
D&L Trail (Lehigh Canal South), 63
Danville, 120–121
Danville & Pottsville Rail Road, 120–122, 126, 139, 155, 292
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad (DL&W), 100, 132, 184–186, 191, 198, 200, 201, 204, 208, 209, 211, 213, 216–217
Delaware, Lehigh, Schuylkill & Susquehanna Railroad, 8, 27
Delaware & Cobb’s Gap Railroad Company, 184
Delaware & Hudson Railroad (D&H), 85, 187–191, 195, 217, 224
Delaware Division (New York & Erie Railroad), 184
Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad, 190, 191
Delta, 78
Dilltown, 265
Downingtown, 4, 61–62
Doylestown, 59
Driftwood, 312
Duanesburgh, 150
Duffy’s Cut, 14, 262
Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range Railway, 310
Dunbar, 272, 302, 304
Duncansville, 23
East Branch Trail, 327
East Broad Top Railroad (EBT), 258–259, 261, 300
East Conemaugh, 239–240, 265
East Mauch Chunk, 197
Easton, 8, 57, 197, 232
East Penn Railroad (EPR), 10–12
East Pennsylvania Branch (Reading system), 131
East Petersburg, 84
East Stroudsburg, 198
Ebensburg, 265
Ebensburg & Blacklick Railroad, 265
Eddystone, 20
Edgewood, 297
Eidenau, 230
Elizabethtown, 79, 80, 262
Elizabethtown & Somerville Railroad, 186, 202
Elverson, 132
Elwyn, 58–60
Empire Link, 154
Emporium, 162, 312
Endeavor, 160
Endless Mountain Riding Trail, 224
Enola Low-Grade Trail, 107
Enola Yard, 68, 97–98
Ephrata, 74
Erie, 4, 119, 154–156, 308, 310, 312–315, 317–322
Erie & North East Railroad, 312–313
Erie & Pittsburgh Railroad, 313
Erie Lackawanna Railroad, 20, 175, 185–186, 190, 191, 211–213, 299, 307, 315
Erie Limited (train), 182
Erie Railroad, 163,
315
Ernst Bike Trail, 327
Everett Railroad, 213, 242
Exton, 62, 154
Fairchance, 272, 302
Fairless Hills, 117
Fall Brook Railway, 151, 154, 171, 179
Farrandville, 232
Fayette Central Railroad (new, excursion), 302–304
Fayette Central Railroad (original), 272, 302
Five Star Trail, 306
Flat Rock, 43
Forks Township Recreation Trail, 63
Fort Allen, 193
Fort Wayne Line (Norfolk Southern), 270
Fountain Hill, 52–54
Franklin, 151
Franklin Railroad, 73
Frazer, 62
Galeton, 160, 172
Gallitzin, 229, 230, 248–249, 251, 263
Garland, 163
Garrett, John Work, 244
Garrett, Robert, 244–245
Genesee & Wyoming, 11, 78, 230–231
Germantown, 15, 34, 38
Gettysburg, 64–65, 71, 74–77, 81, 101–102
Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railroad, 77
Gettysburg & Northern Railroad Company, 77
Gettysburg Branch (Reading system), 77
Gettysburg Railroad, 65, 76, 101–102
Gettysburg Railway, 77
Ghost Town Trail, 265
Gibraltar, 148
Girardville, 121–123, 139
Glen Mills, 46–47, 58
Glen Onoko, 118, 207, 222–224
Glen Rock, 106
Gould, George Jay, 284
Gould, Jay, 283
Gowen City, 128, 141
Gowen, Franklin B., 127–128
Grafton, 265
Gravity (railroad), 187–189, 195, 206, 217, 218
Great Allegheny Passage System, 304–305
Greater Hazleton Rails to Trails (trail), 224
Great Shamokin Path, 306
Greencastle, 68
Greene River Trail, 306
Greensburg, 272, 297
Greenville, 323
Grove City, 320
Hamburg, 115, 132, 144, 148–149
Hanover, 78
Hanover Branch Railroad, 65, 76, 107
Hanover Junction, 75–76, 102–103, 107
Harborcreek, 313
Harrisburg, 1, 2, 4–5, 47–48, 57, 68, 72, 73, 75, 79, 82, 91, 94–96, 99, 105, 112, 114, 119, 130, 191, 228, 237, 238, 242, 252, 262, 264, 270, 283, 298–299
Harrisburg & Lancaster Railroad, 73
Harrisburg Division (Conrail), 115
Harrisburg Line (Norfolk Southern), 130
Harrisburg, Portsmouth, Mountjoy & Lancaster Railroad, 4, 73, 94
Harris Switch Tower, 80, 95–96, 262
Haupt, Herman, 243
Hauto, 207
Haverford, 17, 22, 35, 36
Hawley, 189, 217–218
Heritage Rail Trail, 106–107
Hollidaysburg, 2, 13, 23, 228, 231, 245–246