![]() The S&L rail line –more accurately, what’s left of it - operated its first through train between its namesake cities, and towns in between such as McClure, Middleburg and Selinsgrove, 150 years ago today. They even changed how people kept time (via the imposition of Standard Time), and allowed agriculture and production to be widely separated from commerce centers. They would change not only the way Americans traveled, but how their mail and packages were carried, and how their goods were transported. In an era when most Americans tend to think of railroads only as a train that blocks them at a highway crossing or a stereotypically late-running passenger train (delayed because they take a back seat to freight), it can be hard to conceive of a day when railroads were as important to the American economy and culture as the automobile would become in the 20th century and the internet is now.īut that is what railroads were in the mid-19th century. Lewistown’s Chestnut Street Station in the 1930s The station still operates today, the oldest still in existence on the Amtrak system. Image courtesy MIFFLIN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETYĪbove, a postcard rendering of the train station at Lewistown, with an electric street car in the foreground. The train that made the inaugural run of the S&L getting ready to leave SunburyĪ share certificate from the S&L’s 1870 stock offering, one of three by the railroad in its brief history ![]() This map shows the Sunbury & Lewistown line between Lewistown and McClure (red, from right). Workers unload freight onto horse-drawn carriages at Lewistown’s Chestnut Street Station in the 1800s. The S&L’s Juniata River bridge at Lewistown, just before it was swept away by the flood of 1889. Behind the station is the North American Tannery, destroyed by fire in 1950. Photo courtesy MIFFLIN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETYīlock station on the Sunbury & Lewistown Line, located on East Chestnut Street near Shaw Avenue in Lewistown, in the late 1800s. The Juniata Valley Railroad hauls gondolas for Krentzman and Son across Jack’s Creek, near Green Avenue, in 1998.
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