page_title: South Mountain Railroad (Cumberland)
hierarchical_section_title: South Mountain Railroad (Cumberland)
caption_attribution_description: English: 1872 F. W. Beers &amp; Co. layout sketch (top) of Pine Grove Iron Works and 1889 topographic map (bottom) of the greater area by Ambrose E. Lehman, railroad Chief Engineer. The top map labels the distributary from "Mountain Creek" for the furnace's water race north of the "South Mountain R.R.", while Lehman's label for the natural creek in the topographic swale (south of the railroad) was "Mountain" Creek (to right off of this image). The images depict a similar road curve (now Bendersville Rd) over a stream (left side), but depict the RR bridge over the creek in different directions from the ore bed/banks.
context_page_description: The South Mountain Railroad was a southcentral Pennsylvania railway line for "connecting the Pine Grove works to the Cumberland Valley R. R." and which provided mining and passenger services via a southwest section from Hunter's Run, Pennsylvania, and a northern section from Hunter's Run to the CVRR junction northeast of Carlisle. The northern section merged with the Gettysburg & Harrisburg Railroad line south from Hunter's Run to the Gettysburg Battlefield in 1891 to create the Gettysburg & Harrisburg Railway line, while the branch southwest from Hunter's Run became the Hunter's Run and Slate Belt Railroad line.
  Modernized sections of the South Mountain Railroad remain north of Hunter's Run; while parts of the railbed are available for hiking and biking such as near Carlisle and the Pine Grove Furnace State Park
context_section_description: The South Mountain Railroad was a southcentral Pennsylvania railway line for "connecting the Pine Grove works to the Cumberland Valley R. R." and which provided mining and passenger services via a southwest section from Hunter's Run, Pennsylvania, and a northern section from Hunter's Run to the CVRR junction northeast of Carlisle. The northern section merged with the Gettysburg & Harrisburg Railroad line south from Hunter's Run to the Gettysburg Battlefield in 1891 to create the Gettysburg & Harrisburg Railway line, while the branch southwest from Hunter's Run became the Hunter's Run and Slate Belt Railroad line.
  Modernized sections of the South Mountain Railroad remain north of Hunter's Run; while parts of the railbed are available for hiking and biking such as near Carlisle (Letort Spring Run Nature Trail) and the Pine Grove Furnace State Park (Cumberland County Biker/Hiker Trail with section of the Appalachian Trail.)
caption: 1872 (top)[6] & 1889 maps[7]:16a of the terminus at the Pine Grove Iron Works.
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