REFERENCES
Publications
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Bogen, Jules I. The Anthracite Railroads: A Study in American Railroad Enterprise. New York, NY: The Ronald Press Company, 1927.
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Bohlin, A. The History of the Ashley Planes, 1843-1948. Mountain Top, PA: Mountain Top Historical Society, (date unknown). [on line: see "Websites," below]
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Bryant, Keith L. (Ed.). Encyclopedia of American Business History and Biography; Railroads in the Age of Regulation, 1900-1980. Columbia, SC: Bruscoli Clark Layman, Inc., and Facts on File, 1988.
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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Bureau of Topographic and Geologic Survey. Coal in Pennsylvania. Educational Series 7. Second Edition, May 2002.
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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Environmental Protection. 1988 Annual Report on Mining Activities.
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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Departmentof Internal Affairs, Topographic and GeologicSurvey. Geologic Map of Pennsylvania. 1960, 1:250,000 scale.
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Connolly, Mary T. "The Gravity" - History of the Pennsylvania Coal Company Railroad, 1850-1885. Olyphant, PA: Barrett Publishing Company, 1972.
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Drury, George H. The Historical Guide to North American Railroads. Waukesha, WI: Kalmbach Publishing Co., 1991 [second edition].
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Dublin, Thomas and Walter Light. The Face of Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century. Ithaca, NY: The Cornell University Press, 2005.
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Fry, Robert L. (Ed.). Encyclopedia of American Business History and Biography: Railroads in the Nineteenth Century. Columbia, SC: Bruscoli Clark Layman, Inc., and Facts on File, 1988.
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Heydinger, E.J. Railroads of the First and Second Anthracite Coal Fields of Pennsylvania. Published in Bulletin of the Railway and Locomotive Historical Society, Volumes 105 through 110. [on line: see "Websites" below]
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Holton, James L. The Reading Railroad: History of a Coal Age Empire. Laury's Station, PA: Garrigues House, 1989-1992.
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Koehler, J.S. Beaver Meadows Railroad Blazed Trails for Coal. Hazleton, PA: Hazleton Standard Speaker, February 17, 1984.
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Link, Arthur S. Woodrow Wilson and the Progressive Era. New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1972.
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Miller, Donald L. and Richard E. Sharpless. The Kingdom of Coal: Work, Enterprise, and Ethnic Communities in the Mine Fields. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985.
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Pagoda, John. The geological recipe for making anthracite; excerpted from www.MineCountry.com/homeMine/dispart.cfm?id=65, 2003. [on line: see "Websites," below]
- Poliniak, Louis. When Coal was King: Mining Pennsylvania's Anthracite. Lebanon, PA: Applied Arts Publishers, 1987 (eighth printing).
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Powell, S.R. Delaware and Hudson Canal Company Gravity Railroad, Vol. 1-5. Carbondale, PA: Carbondale Historical Society and Museum, Inc., 2014.
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Shank, William H. The Amazing Pennsylvania Canals. York, PA: The Historical Society of York County, 1965.
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Swetnam, G. Pennsylvania Transportation. Gettysburg, PA; The Pennsylvania Historical Association, 1968 [second edition].
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Switch Back Gravity Railroad Foundation, Inc. Switch Back Gravity Railroad: Pennsylvania's First Railroad; America's FIrst Tourist Railroad. Jim Thorpe, PA.
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Treese, Lorett. Railroads of Pennsylvania: Fragments of the Past in the Keystone Landscape. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2003.
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Troutman, Steve E. The Treverton, Mahanoy and Susquehanna Railroad. Mechanicsburg, PA: Sunbury Press, 2010.
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United States Department of the Interior, Geological Survey. Pennsylvania State Map. 1975, 1:500,000 scale
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Walker, Mike. SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America; Northeast. Kent, England: Stuart Andrews, 2007.
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Wallace, Anthony F.C. St. Clair - A Nineteenth-century Coal Town's Experience with a Disaster-prone Industry. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1981.
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Wiatrowski, Claude. Railroads across North America: An Illustrated History. New York, NY: CRESTLINE (a division of BOOK SALES, INC.), 2012 (by arrangement with Voyageur Press, an imprint of MBI Publishing Company).
Websites (as of September 2016)
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Abandoned Rails: http://www.abandonedrails.com/Pennsylvania
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"Black Diamonds to Tidewater" (website 2005 "revisited"): https://kcjonesblog.com/2015/12/08/black-diamonds-to-tidewater-website-revisited/
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Bohlin, A.: http://www.mtn-top-hs.org/ashley_planes.htm [see "Publications," above]
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Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor: http://www.delawareandlehigh.org/map/
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Frank's Photography Site: http://viewoftheblue.com/photography/maps/
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Google Earth/My Places: Scranton Wilkes-Barre Railroads.kmz [not a direct link]
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Heydinger, E.J.: http://himedo.net/TheHopkinThomasProject/CoalFireIronSteel/Appendices/HeydingerSegments/HeydingerIntro.htm
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Infiltration - "Some NE PA Tunnels: http://www.uer.ca/forum_showthread.asp?fid=3&threadid=86426
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Luzerne County PA GENWEB: http://www.pagenweb.org/~luzerne/lvrr100.htm
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LVRR Lehigh Valley Railroad Pottsville Branch (photo gallery) http://onetechy.wix.com/lvrr#!gallery-2
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North East Rails: http://www.northeast.railfan.net
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PA Department of Conservation and Natural Resources: http://www.explorepatrails.com
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Pagoda, John: http://himedo.net/TheHopkinsThomasProject/TimeLine/IndustrialRevAmerica/Coal/PennaCoalFields.htm. [see "Publications," above]
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Pennsylvania Railroad Stations, Past and Present: http://www.west2k.com/pastations/pastations.htm
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Railpictures.net:http://www.railpictures.net
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Rails-to-Trails Conservancy: http://www.traillink.com
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Reading, Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad: www.rbmnrr.com
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Republican Herald, Pottsville. http://republicanherald.com/news/lofty-tunnel-a-leftover-ghost-of-anthracite-heyday-1.1628174
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SteamPhotos.com: http://www.steamphotos.com/Railroad-Photos/Abandoned-Railroad-Tunnels/Lofty-Tunnel/
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TamaquaArea.com Community Website: https://tamaquaarea.com/2014/02/10/mahanoy-tunnel-still-in-use-150-years-later-runs-under-route-54-and-interstate-81/
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Times-News, Lehighton: http://www.tnonline.com/2012/jul/13/3800-ft-lansford-hauto-tunnel-engineering-marvel
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Trains (magazine): http://trn.trains.com/railroads/railroad-maps/2010/01/scrantons-tangled-steel-web
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TreasureNet: http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/old-photos-pennsylvania/235522-bear-valley-ghost-town-dauphin-county.html
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USGS Store, Map Locator and Downloader: https://store.usgs.gov/ [note: browser needs to be set to accept "cookies"]
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What's New (Railroads in Northeast PA): http://www.nepaview.com/whats-new.html
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Wikipedia: numerous pages