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Mount Carbon Railroad
The Mt. Carbon Railroad (MC) was one of what was known as lateral railroads (another term for branch railroads) built in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania in the 1820s and 1830s, and which were first constructed to accommodate the Schuylkill Canal with coal produced from the coal district south of the Mine Hill and east of the West Branch Schuylkill River, covering an area of between sixty and seventy square miles.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0
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The Mt. Carbon Railroad (MC) was one of what was known as lateral railroads (another term for branch railroads) built in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania in the 1820s and 1830s, and which were first constructed to accommodate the Schuylkill Canal with coal produced from the coal district south of the Mine Hill and east of the West Branch Schuylkill River, covering an area of between sixty and seventy square miles.2
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