Bloomsburg and Sullivan Railroad: Difference between revisions - Wikipedia

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==Route==

The Bloomsburg and Sullivan Railroad's southern [[terminal train station|terminus]] was in [[Catawissa, Pennsylvania|Catawissa]] at the junction of the [[Pennsylvania Railroad]] and the [[Reading Railroad]]. From there, the railroad ran up the west bank of the [[Susquehanna River]] to the mouth of [[Fishing Creek (North Branch Susquehanna River)|Fishing Creek]], and up along Fishing Creek to the community of [[Rupert, Pennsylvania|Rupert]]. Here, the railroad crosses Fishing Creek and goes through the location of the Bloomsburg Fairgrounds to Railroad Street, which it parallels north to the east bank of Fishing Creek. From there, the railroad paralleled Fishing Creek to the northern reaches of Bloomsburg, at which point it turned northeast to Lighstreet, then north to Orangeville. North of Orangeville, the railroad ran on a bridge over Fishing Creek, near the point that [[Pennsylvania Route 487]] also crosses Fishing Creek.<ref name = "Sullivan"/><ref name = "The Reading Railroad"/> It then headed to the community of [[Zaners, Pennsylvania|Zaners]], where it ran alongside what is now protected land for {{convert|2500|ft|m}}.<ref>http://npcweb.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/fall2007.pdf</ref> From there, the railroad traveled roughly north through Stillwater and Benton, to its northern terminus at Jamison City, on the West Branch Fishing Creek.<ref name = "Sullivan County">{{Citation|author = C.J. Hatch|url = http://books.google.com/books?id=9oc6gqXN7z4C&pg=PA42&dq=%22Bloomsburg+and+Sullivan+Railroad%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=5hokUd6fHM-QyQGlpIDABg&ved=0CF4Q6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=%22Bloomsburg%20and%20Sullivan%20Railroad%22&f=false|title = Sullivan County|date = 2009|accessdate = February 2013}}</ref><ref name = "The Reading Railroad"/><ref>{{Citation|url = https://maps.google.com/|title = Google maps|date = 2012|accessdate= February 2013}}</ref> At the community of [[Central, Pennsylvania|Central]], a short [[branch line]] went in a northwesterly direction away from the main line.<ref name = "Discovering"/> A 1947 map shows several other minor branch lines in the northern section of the railroad.<ref name = "The Reading Railroad"/>

==Stations and intersections==