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MakingConnections:
History of the Ironton Railroad
byRichard Metro Bach
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*385 photos & illustrations including 100 COLOR photos
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LAST NEW BOOK.Onceupon a time, the IrontonRailroadhauled iron ore from the most important ore bed in the Lehigh Valley,which was also one of the most abundant U.S. ore regions in pre-CivilWar America. The railroad influenced the educational and religiousdevelopment of a company town and controlled several mines ofits own, including one which opened in 1826.
The railroadremained in the iron mining business until 1882, when it waspurchased by its main customer: a nearby iron works. As therailroads mines were transferred to the ownership of that ironworks, the railroad became a nearly-forgotten wholly-ownedsubsidiary.
By the early 1900s, the Irontons original ironmine was played out, and many of the other on-line mines werelikewise nearing depletion. A potential lack of business, newstifling federal railroad regulations, combined with the railroadsownership by the financially strapped iron manufacturer, should havemeant the end of the tiny Ironton Railroad.
Remarkably,relatives of those very men that had built the Ironton and its minesdiscovered that adjacent to the mines were geological formationswhich produced raw material for a new product: Portland Cement.
Therising cement industry gave the Ironton Railroad revivedopportunities. Not many businesses are afforded reprieves like thisand the secondboom was bigger than the first.
TheIronton Railroad flourished. After 1900, the railroad providedservice to no less than a half dozen remaining iron mines andlimestone quarries, 12 Portland Cement works, a brickyard, a grainmagnesite facility, a slaughterhouse, an iron works with 6-furnacesand a slag dump with crusher, along with small coal and lumber yards.
The railroad offered both through and local freightservice and two daily round trip passenger trains. It used 11locomotives along a mere 10 miles of main line track, but in that10-miles carried a net lading of over a million tons of cargoannually. In 1905 alone, the railroad hauled 35-thousand cars to itssole interchange, and within 10 years it had interchanges with threeadditional railroads.
One hopes this history will fill along-held desire to know about this little rail line. This textcontains elements of the traditional railroad history withmention of national events and technological changes interwoven withgenealogical information about persons involved with the company. Ina history about larger railroad systems such details are difficult toinclude, but that is not the case here where one can reflect onminutia and juxtapose it against events on the national stage.
TheIronton Railroads history offers no stunning passages aboutcolossal transcontinental rail routes, but neither is it a story of aquaint bucolic short line.
What is uniquely Ironton is thatit is a tad bit of both. This is the best possible effort to combinethe available corporate-legal, genealogical, technical andeconomic-financial-regulatory information to tell the story of thisimportant, but almost forgotten American industrialrailroad.
Laminated Hardbound, 8.5×11, 248 pages, 385 photos &illustrations including 100 COLOR photos, large (11×24) foldout map of the system.
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