Summit Branch Rail Road Co. - Pennsylvania Railway Stock Certificate
Inv# RS5289 Stock
Stock printed by American Bank Note Co., Phila. Portraits of George Washington, Ben Franklin, etc. Operated from 1846 to 1897.
From abandonedonline.net:
The Williamstown Colliery Tunnel is an abandoned circa 1874 railroad tunnel under Big Lick Mountain in Pennsylvania. The tunnel connected the Summit Branch Railroad to 19 underground coal veins and the vast Bear Valley coal fields.
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