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Gravity History of the Pennsylvania Coal Company Railroad 1850-1885 Connolly SC
Gravity, The History of the Pennsylvania Coal Company Railroad 1850-1885 by Mary Theresa T.C. Connolly
The Gravity
History of the Pennsylvania Coal Company Railroad
1850-1885
Mary Theresa T.C. Connolly
Soft Cover Stapled
54 Pages
Copyright 1981
Contents
Introduction 5
Chapter 1
The Initial Development of the Pennsylvania
Coal Company Railroad 7
Chapter 2
Trackage 16
Chapter 3
Cars 23
Chapter 4
Crews 27
Chapter 5
Passenger and Freight 35
Chapter 6
The End of an Era 37
Appendix 1
Report of the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Coal Company to
the Stockholders, March 19, 1851 40
Appendix 2
Entire Route of Pennsylvania Coal Company and the Delaware & Hudson
Railroads from Locally to Their Out of State Markets 47
Appendix 3
Blueprint of the Pennsylvania Coal Company Railroad Planes 49
Acknowledgements 52
References 53
Author 54
By the late 1840's the real value of coal, "The Black Diamond", had been firmly established. As a result of this discovery the problems of cheaper transportation and shorter hauling routes had to be solved. Both the Pennsylvania and Washington Coal Companies, therefore, decided to build a gravity railroad basing their decision on the success of the already functioning Delaware & Hudson Gravity Railroad. Their new railroad was to run from the Wyoming Coal Fields in Pittston to the Delaware & Hudson Canal basin in Hawley, Pennsylvania. In less than two years engineers had small gravity cars scaling hills, racing across flatlands, and careening mountainsides to their destination. Under the name of the Pennsylvania Coal Company Railroad the proposed gravity became a reality further developing the transportation history of "Old King Coal" in northeastern Pennsylvania. The new railroad ran by simple gravitation, inclined planes and stationary three-cylinder engines.
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