However, the idea to build the Bloomsburg and Sullivan Railroad was first conceived by David Jewett Waller.

[5] Charles R. Buckalew was made president of the Bloomsburg and Sullivan Railroad starting in 1886.

In May 1887, the Columbian started a column entitled "Bloomsburg and Sullivan Railroad Notes".

By November 1888, lumber was being regularly shipped via the Bloomsburg and Sullivan Railroad from Jamison City to the east coast of the United States.

[5] The building of the Bloomsburg and Sullivan Railroad was primarily backed by bankers and attorneys from Philadelphia.

[4] Although the railroad never did make a very large amount of money, it was critical to the development of the Fishing Creek valley.

[5] When the Bloomsburg and Sullivan Railroad was first constructed, it had a monopoly on travel to the upper Fishing Creek valley.

One of the contributing factors to the decline of the Bloomsburg and Sullivan Railroad was the advent of trucks in the mid-20th century.

From there, the railroad paralleled Fishing Creek to the northern reaches of Bloomsburg, at which point it turned northeast to Lighstreet, then north to Orangeville.

[13][5] It then headed to the community of Zaners, where it ran alongside what is now protected land for 2,500 feet (760 m).

[14] From there, the railroad traveled roughly north through Stillwater and Benton, to its northern terminus at Jamison City, on the West Branch Fishing Creek.

[3] A 1947 map shows several other minor branch lines in the northern section of the railroad.

[8] Most of what trains on the Bloomsburg and Sullivan Railroad carried were wood and farm products.