Mount Carbon Railroad

It extended in a Y-shaped configuration, about two miles up each branch of Norwegian Creek towards Mine Hill – to the Mt.

[11] The 3-mile (4.8 km) average haul delivered, in 1832, 57,234 short tons (51,922 t) of anthracite to the Schuylkill Navigation Canal at Mt.

Carbon a termination point of its main railroad line from Philadelphia in direct competition with the Schuylkill Canal.

[15] In about 1848, iron T-rail replaced the wood and strap rail, but mule power, other than on the section used by the P&RR, prevailed until 1862.

Carbon on May 16, 1862, and merged the line into the parent organization on June 13, 1872, in which year trackage was the same as in the 1830s (except for material), seven miles, with four double/racked.

Many branches to collieries were built, but MC never extended the main lines beyond their original chartered limits.

[18] Coal traffic through stripping operation caused the east branch to be rebuilt after World War II.

The Mount Carbon Railroad shown in an 1877 map with its distinctive Y configuration between Mt. Carbon and Mine Hill through Pottsville. At this time the MC was already merged into the Philadelphia and Reading Company.