The Engine was built by Edward Bury of Liverpool England. It was purchased by the Little Schuylkill Navigation Railroad and Coal Company for $5,000 in 1833

Catawissa Railroad

The Catawissa railroad was only 63 miles in length, for a distance of 30 miles it traveled one of the wildest mountain wildernesses in the country. It had three tunnels plus eight bridges and trestles.

It was the bridges which brought the greatest fame and were long talked about by those who saw them or made the trip across them in the days of early passenger service.

 

If You Like Old Railroad Bridges, You'll Like The Photo's Below!

This one was 9 spans, Burr truss, each 155 feet-total length 1395 feet

1864

Same Bridge as above, but when the Pennsy crossed the Reading Line

PRR Crossed this line at this point in November 1868

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The Mainville bridge, which replaced the original wooden structure below 1896.

By 1929 the track had been relocated nearby by making a fill of 405,253 cubic yards.

The Bridge near Mainville - Length 900 feet, height 106 feet, built 1854

Also there was three tunnels, one of them a 1400 foot tunnel at Lofty