. Popular resorts, and how to reach them : combining a brief description of the principal summer retreats in the United States, and the routes of travel leading to them . Enir-aretl exinesuli/ fur Bachelders Popular Resorts, and How to Reach Them, NAYAUG FALLS, SCRANTON Scranton, Penn. POPULAR KESORl ANO HOW TO KEACa THEM. But Scrantons great attraction is the Switchback, over MoosicMountain and the Highlands beyond, via the Pennsylvania Coal Com-panys road, from Scranton to Hawley on the Delaware, thirty-five milesdistant. This is the longest gravity road in the world. As a pleasur
. Popular resorts, and how to reach them : combining a brief description of the principal summer retreats in the United States, and the routes of travel leading to them . Enir-aretl exinesuli/ fur Bachelders Popular Resorts, and How to Reach Them, NAYAUG FALLS, SCRANTON Scranton, Penn. POPULAR KESORl ANO HOW TO KEACa THEM. But Scrantons great attraction is the Switchback, over MoosicMountain and the Highlands beyond, via the Pennsylvania Coal Com-panys road, from Scranton to Hawley on the Delaware, thirty-five milesdistant. This is the longest gravity road in the world. As a pleasureroute it is comparatively new, and is so entirely unlike ordinary pleasureroutes that it is sure to become one of the attractions of this its description, the reader should have a brief history of thisremarkable road, which although in character not of unusual construc-tion HI the minnig legion^ is (Is* ^\helc of \eiv uncommon occurrence. Although it has lormany yeais loimedan impoitant linkin the s;ystem ofcoal tianspoitatioiiin Pennsjhaiiia, itsliistou ibroad is \eiv limitedStraimds \isiting Scrantonmanifrstfd such inteiest in itthat the m inagement detei-mined to shoiten the route andplace excursion cars on thetracks to accommodate them. / t rprc^hj tO) B ichel Ic I n) ilar J liov to J id Up SWITCHBACK RAILROAD, MOOSIC HIGHLANDS,Scranton, Penn. To increase the facilities for coal-transportation to market, it becamenecessary to construct a railroad from Scranton thirty miles across amountainous country to the village of Hawley. To grade such a road forlocomotive use was found simjily impracticable; but the difficulty wasovercome by erecting stationary engines on the summits of the moun- [OPULAU KESOKTS, AND HOW TO KKAUH THKM. tains; from these a broad iron band extends down, and attaches to thecar; by this you are drawn to the mountain top, from which the roadagain descends on the opposite slope, not direct, but foll
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