This photograph from the Smithsonian Institution captures Mahanoy Plane, Pennsylvania around the turn of the 20th century – taken near the headhouse of the inclined plane railroad that hauled loaded coal cars up Broad Mountain toward Frackville. A coal breaker rises in the distance, while the large buildings along the tracks served as engine houses and workshops for the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad. By this point, about 2,000 people in the to…
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