abandoned railways around Ashley PA.

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Walking down the inclined plane that was once used to drag railcars up the steep grade of Solomon's gap. There is a lot of this coral like rock piled up. It's odd to see this at over 2,000 feet above sea level, the freight cars must have passed inches away from them. Now trees cover almost all of the old ROW, as it was closed just after the second world war.    
   

There are pits like this in several places along the way where a special truck used to pull the cars up the grade could pass under the waiting cuts of cars.    

Here is a spot where the planes passed under RT309. The original bridge has been removed and replaced with a new one, but you can still see some of the old stone work off to either side of it. A public road now uses the former ROW.    

Some more of the concrete works that once housed the machinery that drove the planes.