NORTHUMBERLAND  COUNTY

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EXISTING STATIONS
Station
Name
Original
Railroad
Current
Location
Type Current
Use
Date
Built
Track
Status
Building
Material
More
Info
Dornsife Off PA225 next to 405 Creek Road P Garage ???? Gone Wood  
Hunter Off PA225, moved about 200 yards from original location, in backyard of 302 SR 3004 P Storage 1905 Gone Wood  
Milton Filbert St. P Civic ???? In Use Brick
Milton Filbert St. F Civic 1890 In Use Brick  
Northumberland 2 Front St. P Restaurant 1910 In Use Brick
Northumberland 356 Priestley Ave. F Railroad ???? In Use Brick
Riverside D&H Ave. C Business ???? In Use Wood
Shamokin Liberty & Commerce P Storage ???? Gone Brick
Sunbury Third St. P Business 1872 In Use Brick
Sunbury Second St. P Business 1870s Gone Wood
Turbotville Former site of the Magee Transportation Museum, Bloomsburg, Columbia County C Museum ???? None Wood
STATIONS OF THE PAST
Station
Name
Original
Railroad
Notes
Dalmatia  
Locust Gap This station, built in 1875, was at 2nd and Railroad Streets.
Montandon  
Mt. Carmel Was located at Railroad and Turnpike Sts. under overpass of PA 61. Was torn down to make way for new highway overpass.
Mt. Carmel This station was at 5th and Market Streets. The railroad built this station in 1889 to replace the original which was a dilapdated house with a small freight shed.
Mt. Carmel Junction This station was located near the Alaska Colliery.
Mt. Carmel Junction This station replaced the older one listed above in 1909.
Northumberland
AND
Prior to the 1910 brick PRR station being built at 2 Front Street, there was previously a wooden frame station here.
Shamokin Was located on Independence Street.
Shamokin Freight station.
Sunbury This station was technically in Sunbury. It stood where Kase tower later stood on the east side of the north branch of the Susquehanna river where the junction of the Susquehanna or Wilkes Barre branch connected with the P&E branch in north Sunbury.
Trevorton This station was located at 5th and Railroad Streets.
Watsontown  
1895 NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY RAILROAD MAP
Notes About Existing Stations...

Milton (P&E) - Now houses the Milton Police Department. Here is an old view showing the freight station. The station at Milton which was part of the PRR was formerly of the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad not the Northern Central Railroad. The Northern Central stopped at Sunbury though it was a part owner the in the Northumberland yard before it was absorbed into the PRR. The Northern Central also owned the Williamsport to Elmira branch at one time but it did not own the tracks or stations between Sunbury and Williamsport. --Greg Stone

Northumberland (PRR) - Station was also used for DL&W Bloomsburg connection. Though wooden "rooms" have been added to extend the restaurant, the station is brick; one can see the brick in the 2nd floor but also in the original exterior walls now inside the restaurant. --Gary Lapointe

Northumberland (DL&W) - The tracks that originally served this building (west side) were removed. The existing tracks are of former Erie origin and are on the east side of the building, and are about 150 ft. away. Concrete sign at north end of building clearly says: "Lackawanna Freight House."

Riverside (PRR) - This town was formerly called South Danville.

Shamokin (PRR) - The windows of this station are now boarded up and the platform gone. It was last used as a bus station and is now a warehouse for a furniture store. 1935 was the last time it was used as a passenger train stop. The station is within a block or two of the Lower Anthracite Model Railroad Club at 210 East Independence Street.

Sunbury (RDG) - First railroad station in the world to use electric lights.

Turbotville (SB&B) - Moved to the museum in the 1960s.