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It is the location of Pioneer Tunnel, a tourist attraction featuring a tour of a coal mine on mine cars and a separate 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) narrow gauge steam train ride. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] History
Oct. 29—ASHLAND — Hundreds flocked to Pioneer Tunnel Coal Mine and Steam Train's first-ever "Pioneer Bash" on Sunday and got a taste of what the attraction's new business manager has to offer ...
The mine will open for tours on Saturdays, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and admission is free. The nonprofit Underground Miners organization of anthracite coal mine ...
Pioneer Tunnel Coal Mine & Steam Train; Railroaders Memorial Museum; Reading Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad; Reading Railroad Heritage Museum; Rockhill Trolley Museum; SEPTA Route 15; Steamtown National Historic Site; Stewartstown Railroad; The Stourbridge Line; Strasburg Rail Road; Tioga Central Railroad (Closed in 2019) Wanamaker ...
Aug. 29—ASHLAND — The memory of the late Frank J. Staudenmeier was honored Tuesday by friends, family members and colleagues at an expansive ceremony at Pioneer Tunnel Coal Mine and Steam Train.
About 1806, Abijah Smith came to Plymouth from Derby, Connecticut, intending to mine, ship, and sell coal.Smith and Lewis Hepburn, his business partner, bought a 75-acre plot (Lots 45 and 46 on the Plymouth Township Warranty Map) on the east side of Coal Creek, and in the fall of 1807, Smith floated an ark down the Susquehanna River loaded with about fifty tons of anthracite coal, shipping it ...
Entrance to Brooks Mine in 2022. Built in 1902, the small 150 ft (46 m) long Brooks Mine, located in the park, was conceived and funded by Reese Brooks, owner of a coal mine in Moosic, Pennsylvania, as a training location for miners-in-training and a show mine to showcase the region's coal industry. Although not a commercial operation, the mine ...
In 1903, the Continental Coal Company opened the Lackawanna Coal Mine. [1] After operating for more than half a century, this mine was closed in 1966 and lay abandoned until 1978. That year, the mine was converted to a museum, supported by $2.5 million in U.S. federal government funding. Restoration included the removal of debris, the laying of ...