This was an added bonus to an already scenic hike. This tunnel can be found along the trail in the Glen Onoko section of Lehigh Gorge State Park. It’s not very long, maybe a few hundred feet in length. The Central Railroad of New Jersey constructed it in...
Hidden in between Fort Indiantown Gap Military Reservation and Swatara State Park in northern Lebanon County are the ruins of the town of Rausch Gap, once a mining and railroad town. The basics are up on that sign right there, so I’m not going to reiterate all of...
In the summer of 1832, Philip Duffy, a railroad contractor, hired 57 Irish immigrants on the docks of Philadelphia. They were to fill in a ravine near present-day Malvern so rails for a new track could be laid. They began their task, but only 6 weeks later all...
Although railroads in Central & South Jersey are just about defunct nowadays, there are still several reminders of their presence and significance – Winslow Junction, the track that once ran next to the Freight Station, the trestle behind Hebrew Park are just a few examples. Here is another....
Gravity makes trains sad. On some mountainsides, a train simply couldn’t get the speed or power needed to make it up the side. In the Ashley area, three huge planes (as in inclined plane, not airplane) were built to get freight cars up the mountain. Small cars, or...
I heard about an old railroad tunnel not too far from my house – about 10-15 minutes away. I’m used to having to go 2+ hours to find such things, and now I’m surrounded by them, it seems. The “Cannonball” was a train that ran from Wilkes-Barre to...
This is somewhere I’ve been meaning to get to for quite some time now. While going for some job interviews in the area, I found out it was just a few miles down the road. I looked for the historical marker on the side of the road and...
This is somewhere I’d heard about for years but simply never got to. We considered adding it to our itinerary during our recent PA trip, but the weather made us change our mind. The Manunka Chunk tunnels are abandoned railroad tunnels that run through a hill in Warren...
