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Arippa
Distance: 51.8 Mi2015 Chestnut St
17011-5467 Camp Hill -
Rosebud Mining Company
Distance: 93.8 Mi301 Market St
16201 Kittanning -
Targe Energy, Inc.
Distance: 104.9 Mi111 Freeport Rd
15215-2943 Pittsburgh -
West Chester Railroad Co
Distance: 123.4 Mi500 S Adams St
19382-3810 West Chester -
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Distance: 147.0 Mi229 Willow Ave
18447-1443 Olyphant
Description
The East Broad Top Railroad & Coal Company (EBT) was originally chartered on April 16, 1856 to mine and transport coal from the rich fields of Broad Top Mountain. Due to lack of funding, however, the railroad did not become a reality until fifteen years later when the Rockhill Iron & Coal Company (RIC) was incorporated. The founders, a group of Philadelphia businessmen, bought a controlling interest in EBT stock, and made plans to construct a narrow gauge railway. The line was opened from Mt. Union to Rockhill Furnace on August 30, 1873, and was completed in 1874 to the company town of Robertsdale which was developing around Rockhill No. 1 Mine. In 1891, the tracks were extended to a new mine at Woodvale. Trains made several daily runs to Mt. Union where coal was transferred to the standard gauge cars of the Pennsylvania Railroad.