Ashley Planes Map

Ashley Planes was a historic freight cable railroad situated along three separately powered inclined plane sections located between Ashley, Pennsylvania at the foot, and via the Solomon cutting the yard in Mountain Top over 1,000 feet above and initially built between 1837 and 1838 by Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company's subsidiary Lehigh and Susque…
Ashley Planes was a historic freight cable railroad situated along three separately powered inclined plane sections located between Ashley, Pennsylvania at the foot, and via the Solomon cutting the yard in Mountain Top over 1,000 feet above and initially built between 1837 and 1838 by Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company's subsidiary Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad.
  • Location: Off Pennsylvania Route 309 in Fairview Township and Hanover Township, Pennsylvania
  • Area: 160.3 acres (64.9 ha)
  • Built: 1837, 1860s, 1909
  • Built by: Douglas, Edwin A.; LC&N.
  • NRHP reference No.: 80003562
  • Added to NRHP: January 25, 1980
Data from: en.wikipedia.org